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Season 3 Ep 12 – Safety, Security and Systems Intelligence

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How to Be a Powerful Problem Solver

Gina Bennett was a counter terrorism officer at the CIA for 34 years. She is now retired and teaches security studies at Georgetown University. "I love that I have been able to integrate some of my own experience in security and in the intelligence communities," she says.

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I love that I have been able to integrate some of my own experience in security and in the intelligence communities into my work now and into this conversation. And I hope it gives some new thoughts and perspectives for all of you, regardless of what industry you work in or what role you play. I think this conversation just brings up these ideas of how much we could potentially expand our ability to become powerful problem solvers by increasing this range and repertoire of how we view problems and how we solve them and the kinds of strategies we use for becoming more resilient and achieving what we want to achieve. So thank you for joining
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me
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for
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this
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episode
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and I hope
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you
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enjoy it.
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I'm really excited for a conversation because I just looking at everything that you're putting out there I think is first of all very needed for people to have as a new perspective about solving problems in general and it aligns a lot with what I do as well, just kind of a systems approach and much more holistic view. So I'd love just if you could tell the audience a little bit about yourself. Sure.
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Yeah, well, Gina Bennett, I am one year retired from a 34 year career in the intelligence community. I was a counter terrorism officer at the CIA. So I spent most of my career, really all of my career and counter terrorism, which I liken to sort of the hunter aspect of the role in security because it's definitely more the hunter defender protector role in national security, a big part of it. And I currently teach at Georgetown University in the security studies program, both hunter gather national security as well as ethics and intelligence support to national security. So have the opportunity as a teacher to just constantly learn and be challenged by new groups of students, just awesome. And strategy advisor for girl security. I had been volunteering for girl security really since Lauren got the organization started because I absolutely love the mission of including more women and general minorities in national security and the conversations in the fields in the decision making. So despite being retired from my day job, I stayed pretty busy in this mission space, but I really, I really love it. So my background though, in counter terrorism is one of the first analysts to warn about bin Laden and al-Qaeda and that wave of terrorism that we faced before and after 9-11.

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