e040 Frontline Leadership with Marjorie K. Eastman

This week we examine Frontline Leadership with Military Leader and Author Marjorie K. Eastman.


Marjorie K. Eastman earned her BA in political science at the University of California, San Diego; her MA in international security at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies; and her MBA from Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. Along the way she was selected as White House Intern, studied abroad at University College London, School for Slavonic and East European Studies, and was an FBI’s Honors Graduate Intern. 


Eastman enlisted in the US Army Reserve after 9/11, because of 9/11. During her ten years in the military, she served as an Intelligence Officer and Commander. She deployed twice, once in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom and the other in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan. She was ranked the #1 military intelligence company commander in Eastern Afghanistan for the deployment cycle of 2009–2010, awarded the Bronze Star, and received the Combat Action Badge......

She also has a decade of experience in for profit and nonprofit organizations, specializing in business operations and development, change management, and frontline leadership. She is the 2017 National Independent Publisher Award Winning author of, The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11. This is the first book to define post 9/11 service and leadership, with endorsements by Former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, General Stanley McChrystal, and Gayle Lemmon. Marjorie is also a spouse of a soldier, and understands the perspective from that of a military family member. She lives in Tennessee with her husband Charles, and their son, Henk.



Links:
Marjorie K. Eastman on LinkedIn
Marjorie K. Eastman on Facebook
Marjorie K. Eastman’s Website
Speaking Engagements
Marjorie’s book The Frontline Generation: How We Served Post 9/11



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Leading Organizational Change with Dr. Marvin Washington