Join Yale Veterans Network and the Working Women’s Network in a discussion with Shannon Huffman Polson. Shannon is one of the first women to fly the Apache helicopter in the U.S. Army.
After serving in the armed services for a decade, Polson earned her MBA at the Tuck School at Dartmouth and has led outstanding teams in the corporate world at Microsoft.
She is the author of The Grit Factor: Courage, Resilience and Leadership in the Most Male Dominated Organization in the World, and the founder of The Grit Institute, a leadership institute committed to whole leader development and a focus on grit and resilience.
We will discuss Shannon’s challenge as a woman in the armed forces, how she felt when she took her first flight, and what it was like to transition to civilian life.