ABSTRACT

This chapter focuses on the synthesis of all the data including insights gathered from the 208 former and current intelligence community (IC) leaders who participated in the study’s survey. It explores what leadership principles are potentially most germane to the implementation of IC leadership development programs. The chapter outlines rich textual detail provides an additional tranche of insights in addition to analysis provide the IC leadership development framework. Within the 138 textual responses to the issue of leadership training, several themes emerged. The chapter discusses these into six broad thematic and inter-related areas: individual behavioural attributes, technical training, strategic and business planning, mentoring, evaluation, and lastly training and education strategies. The chapter illustrates some of the issues IC leaders raised under each of these six themes before presenting a summary of the analysis in the form of the IC leadership development framework. One final area of leadership attribute training that is worth pointing out is emotional intelligence awareness.