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It is my sincere pleasure to welcome Christina Johnson as our special guest today.

She is a very unique speaker because she has a very long history with us at Stanford.

She started out as an undergrad here, a master student here, and her PhD student here in electrical engineering.

But she certainly didn't stop there. She went on to a very

successful academic career at the University of Colorado and then was asked to become the dean

of the School of Engineering at Duke, then became the provost at Johns Hopkins, and then became

the undersecretary of energy, then she left there to start

her own company.

So she has a tremendous amount of experience in academics, in government, and now in private

industry.

So we're going to talk a lot today about change making and leadership in these different types

of environments.

So welcome.

Thank you.

It's great to be here.

Great. So I want to start out talking about these different types of environments about what it's like.

Let's start in academics, because the folks in the room here, certainly you're familiar with academics

as they're, most of them are students.

What does it like to be in a leadership position in academic institution?

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