The OWLS Podcast
The OWLS Podcast
Podcast Description
The Officer Women's Leadership Symposium (OWLS) convenes experts, thought leaders, and innovators with members of the military, government, and veteran community to explore emerging trends, strengthen skills, and transform observations into actionable insights to lead positive change. The 2025 theme - Power of Connection - emphasizes how relationships shape personal growth, resilience, and collective strength. In these one hour sessions our audience had the opportunity to ask questions, build community and shared their thoughts. Podcast episodes include panel discussions, individual speakers, and open sessions with more live audience feed back.If you would like to participate in OWLS "live" or any of the other excellent offerings by AcademyWomen, go to https://academywomen.org/.The views expressed by AcademyWomen, OWLS speakers and audience members are our own and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Defense.
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Content Themes
The content themes of OWLS center on leadership development, personal growth, and conflict resolution, with sessions like 'Connect with Self,' focusing on humor as a healing tool, 'Connect with HerStory,' which emphasizes storytelling's power to inspire, and 'Connect to Master Conflict,' addressing effective leadership during workplace challenges. These diverse topics aim to enhance participants' skills and foster a community of shared experiences.
The Officer Women’s Leadership Symposium (OWLS) convenes experts, thought leaders, and innovators with members of the military, government, and veteran community to explore emerging trends, strengthen skills, and transform observations into actionable insights to lead positive change.
Our 2026 theme – Learn – Connect – Act – emphasizes our mission to build skills, grow networks within our community, and take action together.
If you would like to participate in OWLS “live” or any of the other excellent offerings by AcademyWomen, go to https://academywomen.org/.
The views expressed by AcademyWomen, OWLS speakers and audience members are our own and do not necessarily represent the views of the U.S. Department of Defense.
VALIANT WOMEN is the story of the 350,000 American women who served in uniform during World War II. These incredible women served in every service branch, in every combat theater, and in nearly two-thirds of the available military occupations at the time. They were pilots, codebreakers, ordnance experts, gunnery instructors, metalsmiths, chemists, translators, parachute riggers, truck drivers, radarmen, pigeon trainers, and much more.
LENA ANDREWS is the author of Valiant Women: The Extraordinary American Servicewomen Who Helped Win World War II and an Associate Research Professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy.
Shout outs during the episode:
Learn about Lena: University of Maryland and Author
Dr Margaret Chung, WWII Hero
Recording veteran stories: Library of Congress Veteran History Project and Women's Military Memorial
Upcoming AW Events to include the Sept 17 Career Coaching Workshop
Mystics We Salute Her event July 16:
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