Deborah Sills, consultant and advisor at Debbie Sills LLC, joins host Aileen Black on  this week’s Leaders and Legends. Sills is a versatile leader with over thiry years of experience helping organizations transform their business through strategy and technology based innovation. Deborah Sills Prior to forming her own consulting company, Sills served as the global leader for Deloitte’s Government and Public Sector practice and as the leader of its Government and Public Sector (GPS) Sustainability, Climate and Equity Market. Under Sill’s leadership, Deloitte’s GPS consulting practice grew ..read more

U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Julius S. Caesar (Ret.) joins host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends. Caesar is a career surface warfare officer who has had a distinguished career in the military and industry. He is a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seminar XXI Fellow in Foreign Politics, International Relations, and the National Interest. He has also served as a chief operating officer, sector vice president, senior vice president and general manager in public and privately held technology firms. Caesar is a trustee at the Naval War College Foundation and strategic advisor for academy ..read more

Maj. Gen. Johnny Davis, commanding general of U.S. Army Recruiting Command and Fort Knox, joins host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends. During his career, General Davis has served as deputy commanding general for Operations for the 25th Infantry Division, commanding general of the U.S. Army Joint Modernization Command at Fort Bliss, Texas, and chief of staff at U.S. Army Futures Command in Austin, Texas. During the show Davis discusses his leadership style which he says is about investing in those he leads. “It is all about the people, you need to invest in them, take time to tra ..read more

Austin Yerks, president  and founder of AJY III Government Strategies, joins host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to discuss leadership and how to solve difficult client challenges. AJY III is a business focused on supporting strategic  alliances between commercial firms and agencies of the federal government. Prior to forming his own company, Yerks was president  of CSC’s North American Public Sector (NPS)  Defense and Intelligence Group. He has been a senior executive in the federal marketplace for over 40 years, and is known for his technology vision. On ..read more

Army  Maj. Gen. Deborah Kotulich joined host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to discuss how to create a collaborative and productive working environment. General Kotulich currently serves as the director of the Army Recruiting and Retention Task Force, which was established by the secretary of the Army to integrate and synchronize efforts addressing all issues affecting recruiting and retention. She also recently served as the chief of staff for Army Support to the Naming Commission, which coordinated and facilitated efforts to rename all Defense Department installations t ..read more

William Crowell, former National Security Agency deputy director, and partner at Alsop Louie Partners, joined host Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to discuss how to lead during an organizational transformation. Crowell’s career was anything but a straight line. He spent several years at the NSA, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, analysis, strategic planning, finance, and research and development. He served as deputy director of Operations from 1991 to 1994, running its core signals intelligence mission. In February 1994 he was appointed by President Bill Clinton as ..read more

Mark Amtower, founder and managing partner of Amtower & Company and a Washington, D.C. legend in marketing to the government, joined host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to discuss leadership in government marketing. Amtower is a consultant, speaker, best-selling author, columnist, adjunct graduate professor and radio host. For 12 years, he has hosted Amtower Off Center on Federal News Network, which was the first radio show in the country to address issues impacting the government contracting community. Amtower has advised over three thousand large, medium and small compan ..read more

Steve Bowsher, president of In-Q-Tel (IQT) joined host Aileen Black on this week’s Leaders and Legends to discuss how to build a successful tech business from the ground up. IQT was founded in 1999 and invests in cutting-edge  technologies that enhance the national security of the United States. The Arlington, Virginia-based company invests in companies that support the CIA’s mission and describes itself as “combining the security savvy of government with the can-do curiosity of Silicon Valley.” Prior to becoming president, Bowsher served as managing general partner and executive vice pre ..read more

Amy Gilliland, president of General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), joins Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to talk about how to lead with empathy and compassion while still driving results. GDIT is a business unit of General Dynamics Corporation, and is an $8.5 billion global technology enterprise with operations in 30 countries worldwide. As president, Gilliland oversees General Dynamic’s IT business. She has more than 25 years of public sector experience including nearly two decades in leadership positions at General Dynamics. Gilliland  has been recognized as one of Virginia ..read more

Jacqueline Tame, founder of PsiQuantum, and former acting deputy director at the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), joined Aileen Black on Leaders and Legends to discuss how leading with candor and authenticity can help create a postive and healthy workplace environment. Tame is the inaugural director of Government Affairs at PsiQuantum, a company building the world’s first useful fault-tolerant, error-corrected quantum computer. Previously she was the vice president of innovation at Landaus, a multi- billion-dollar agricultural co-op in Iowa. During her tenure at the JAIC, Tame serv ..read more