Public Health Leadership in

Challenging Environments

RADM (ret) Robert C. Williams, P.E., DEEUSPHS Scientific and Training Symposium

New Orleans, LouisianaJune 21, 2011

LEADERSHIP

FOCUS

VISION

“Determine that a thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find a way.”

Abraham Lincoln

Hatchet

AUTHORITY

Hurricane Katrina at 0045, 29 August 2005

DRIVE DETERMINATION COMMUNICATION

PLANNING PREPAREDNESS

INTEGRITY

LEADERSHIP