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June 25, 2025US Intelligence Agencies: Too Many? Not Enough?By: Dr. Ken Gemlich
Over the next several weeks, we will be exploring some of the
various US intelligence agencies. In
this initial entry, we take a bird’s eye view of the agencies that fall under
the purview of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the Department
of Homeland Security.
Intelligence Community Alphabet Soup
In the United States there are nearly 20 different
intelligence agencies including two independent agencies: the DNI and the Central
Intelligence Agency (CIA). The U.S. intelligence community is composed of the
following agencies: Nine Department of Defense elements—the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA), the National Security Agency (NSA), the National
Geospatial- Intelligence Agency (NGA), the National Reconnaissance Office
(NRO), and the intelligence elements of the five DoD services; the Army, Navy,
Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.
Other intelligence agencies come from seven elements of
other departments and agencies—the Department of Energ...
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June 24, 2025Getting Results: Effective LLM QueriesBy: Dr. Robin Westerik
As Artificial Intelligence technologies rapidly make their
way into our every...
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March 18, 2025What is a Life Coach?By: Coach Vern
A life coach is a professional who helps clients to set and
achieve personal or prof...
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June 18, 2025Seeing Out the VisionBy Dr. Scott.
We have arrived at the final installment in this two month, seven-part
series on visio...
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June 04, 2025Maintaining the VisionBy Dr. Scott.
As this series on visionary leadership and visionary
leadership best practices has tak...
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June 25, 2025Leading with IntegrityBy Dr. Scott.
Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to another MSPD
Wednesday Leadership Blog. If you’ve
been following along, you will know that we just finished up a two month,
seven-part series focusing on visionary leadership with the final piece in the series
Seeing out the Vision
. I invite everyone who may be new to this blog to check out the full series beginning with the
6 Characteristics of Visionary Leaders
.
As I prepared material for this week and as I explored
different topics that might become the fulcrum for this week’s piece, I found
myself returning to the concept of integrity in leadership. Integrity can be described and defined in
many ways, but my personal favorite is “doing the right thing even when no one
is watching.” We may describe someone
with integrity as ethical, respectful, honest, reliable, trustworthy, and
dependable. Other descriptions and
examples we find focus on how integrity involves consistently aligning one’s
behavior ...
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June 23, 2025New AI Certificates AddedThroughout June 2025 MEG, through the Madison School of Professional Development, has launched several new certificate programs in information technology and now Artificial Intelligence.
Last week, MEG President, Dr. Robin Westerik, together with Dr. Jeevan D'Souza, the developer and lead faciltiator for the new programs, released a statement regarding the new programs in AI. Of the programs, Westerik commented, "whether curious about AI, considering an AI driven career path, or
just looking to maximize AI applications, these programs provide that
foundation you need."
Learn more about the new programs:
Artificial Intelligence Foundations
Data Science Foundations
Read the
full press release
.
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May 12, 2025Launch of Free Success in Business SeriesLast week, the Madison School of Professional Development (MSPD) announced the launch of a new certi...
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May 04, 2025MSPD Launches New Membership ProgramLast week, Madison Education Group (MEG) and the Madison School of Professional Development (MSPD) a...
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