About the Award
Dimensions of Leadership:
- Encourages and/or empowers others to achieve, creates enthusiasm, a feeling of investment and a desire to excel
- Instills a sense of mission, teamwork and support
- Energizes people to overcome barriers to change
- Inspires a sense of urgency/immediacy
- Positively influences others to build consensus in a group, department or organizational setting
- Helps others develop by investing time and effort
- Exhibits a spirit of cooperation and willingness to help others
- Develops trust and credibility through open, respectful communications and demonstrating accountability
- Serves as a role model to others through positive and productive client and colleague relationships
Eligibility:
All ITS personnel below the Director level.
Nomination accepted from:
Especially ITS managers in support of the recognition of a staff member who exhibits leadership at any level, but any member of ITS or Mason may nominate a person who they believe exhibits leadership.
Selection process:
The selection process is coordinated by the CIO's Office. Once the submissions are collected and packaged, the Strategic Operations Coordinator will submit the nomination packages to the ITS Senior Leadership Team who review the nominations and recommend a winner.
Winnings:
- Formal recognition at the Semiannual All-Staff meeting
- Name engraved on the ITS Leadership Impact plaque that will be displayed outside the CIO's office
- $200 (Student wage winners receive an alternate prize)
Leadership Impact Award Nomination Form
LIA Awardees
Leadership Impact Awards are presented at the biannual ITS All-Staff Meetings.
Previous Leadership Impact Awards
Spring 2024: Yuko Kuo
Yuko Kuo, Manager, Cloud, Compute & Storage Engineering
Yuko encourages and empowers everyone in ITS. This is 10000% true for her team, but also every other department and individual team member. She creates enthusiasm and a feeling of investment by listening first, thinking critically and thoughtfully, and brings these practices together to foster a greater sense of teamwork and collaboration. Yuko absolutely has a high expectation to deliver and exceed at every turn, but she approaches it by supporting, motivating, and making everyone better so they can be their best self in their work. All projects, teams, services and operations run better and more effectively when Yuko or her team are involved.
Fall 2023: Elizabeth Redwine
Elizabeth Redwine, Banner/Patriot Web Support Specialist, ITS Support Center
Elizabeth is a fountain of knowledge and customer service is in her DNA. She has such a calm and patient demeanor allowing her to help people step by step through any problem. Liz thinks of everything! Even for some of the most obscure issues, she usually knows what or who is responsible, and that creates a learning experience for all of us! By assisting colleagues and customers to learn, instead of just dictating information to them, Elizabeth empowers people by giving them the tools to make positive changes. Her desire to have ITS excel and look good are demonstrated by her ability to see both the ITS and customer side and to encourage the needs of both.
Spring 2023: Whitney Sublett
Whitney Sublett, Strategic Operations Coordinator, Office of the CIO
Whitney has provided much needed continuity in times of leadership transition both within and outside of ITS. Without Whitney, many of our ITS activities would not take place. She sees the mission of ITS and of Mason and keeps us focused on just that. She motivates us all to do our part for the team and leads us and supports us to get things done without us even noticing she’s leading. I don’t think there is anything she’d ask us to do that she wouldn’t do herself, and I appreciate everything she brings to any discussion.
Whitney can be trusted to always show up, always work hard, be creative in her thinking, collaborative in her approach, empathetic to each individual and make all of us believe in the why we are here and how we can always strive to do better.