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Analyze a Leader: Section Chief Loren Cannon, FBI
June 1, 2016, Jonathan Mark Froehlich in Uncategorized
While most of his friends and former classmates were taking family vacations, working part-time jobs, or otherwise enjoying a little post high school freedom, Loren “Renn” Cannon was sweating his way through one of the hottest summers the US Military Academy at West Point ever had the twisted pleasure of offering it’s first-year cadets.
It was on West Point’s sprawling campus, seated reagally on the high ground of Orange County, NJ overlooking the Hudson River, that Renn would experience a swift, intense indoctrination into the theory and practice of leadership.
Given the fact that Renn attended an institution so steadfastly focused on molding individuals into world class leaders, it should come as no surprise that his subsequent career in both the private and public sector has been marked by promotions, increasingly high levels of responsibility, and other leadership development successes.
Still, one cannot help but think that his collision with leadership at such an early age is perhaps due to some combination of irony and design – if feeling especially whimsical, one might even call it fate – particularly seeing that, for the last 19 months, Renn has found himself at the helm of the FBI’s Leadership Development Program. Known around the halls of the J. Edgar Hoover Building simply as “LDP,” Renn’s program repesents the tip of the spear as far as the Bureau’s ongoing effort to evaluate and re-engineer its leadership culture.