The Department of Leadership and Information Strategy’s goal is to educate and develop senior leaders to bring strategic thinking skills and innovative approaches to the challenges of transforming organizations and formulating and resourcing our future national security strategy.

We seek to achieve this goal by:
- Using innovative educational programs to provide the means and environment for our students to increase their knowledge of organizational transformation and information strategies in the Joint and interagency arenas; develop their capacity for strategic thinking; hone their conceptual, technical, and interpersonal leadership skills; and internalize the value of life-long learning.

- Maintaining and continuously improving a comprehensive, world class executive assessment and development program that enhances strategic leader development, supports the ICAF curriculum, and applies broadly across the leadership spectrum.

- Using innovations in education and information technology to create and explore new methodologies and models in strategic leadership, organizational transformation, and information strategy.

- Engaging in cutting-edge research, development, and outreach in strategic leadership, organizational transformation, and information strategy.

- Seeking to recruit, hire, develop, and retain a high quality team of experts in the behavioral sciences and information strategy arenas.