Carmen Medina

Current

Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence at Central Intelligence Agency

Past

Deputy Director, Intelligence at Central Intelligence Agency
Chief/Strategic Assessments Group at Central Intelligence Agency

Education

Georgetown University
The Catholic University of America

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Carmen Medina’s Summary

My talents, insight, and experience would help any organization take advantage of three significant developments that I believe will reshape knowledge work over the near term.
1. Maturing social networking and collaborative technologies will enable radical redesigns of work for improved mission results and greater employee engagement. Those two terms are synonymous, by the way.
2. New sensemaking, data discovery, and analytic techniques, in part enabled by the first trend, will make obsolete historical analytic approaches, such as reading, maintaining databases, and writing prose.
3. All organizations will need to become more transparent and honest not just with customers and stakeholders, but more important, with themselves. This development is of course enabled by the first two.

I am confident I can help many organizations navigate this future. Despite more than 31 years of government service, I am inspired by the new and remain committed to the potential inherent in exploring unconventional views. Every year is a greater learning experience than the year before.

My greatest area of expertise is the activity of analysis itself--how are ideas generated; how do we know we are right; how do logic, evidence, bias and perception mesh into views (yes it is plural) of reality. I am eager to understand how the world is changing before us as technology and networks redefine human relationships. I believe the greatest challenge today is one of sensemaking; in fact, the economic crisis is as much a failure of cognition as anything else.

And yet, despite all the above, I like to work on practical, concrete things, believe in having a plan of attack, and in all things value impact over process. I am an excellent communicator, both in written and verbal forms, and have a proven track record as a gifted manager of knowledge workers whether in small groups of ten or large groups of thousands.

Carmen Medina’s Specialties:

Critical Thinking, Research and Analysis, Data Analytics, Corporate Culture, Organizational Learning, Strategic Leadership, Social networking and Web 2.0, Idea Generation, Thinking about the Future, Cultural Diversity, Cognitive Diversity, Spanish-speaker, Decent German, Less Decent French

Carmen Medina’s Experience

Director, Center for the Study of Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)

January 2007 — Present (3 years 3 months)

CSI is the CIA's internal think tank responsible for its Lessons Learned program.
Deputy Director, Intelligence

Central Intelligence Agency

(Government Agency; International Affairs industry)

January 2005 — January 2007 (2 years 1 month)

Part of three-person team leading the CIA's all-source analytic directorate.
Chief/Strategic Assessments Group

Central Intelligence Agency

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; International Affairs industry)

August 2003 — January 2005 (1 year 6 months)

Over the horizon analysis on Strategic and Warning Issues

Carmen Medina’s Education

Georgetown University

MSFS , Foreign Serive , 1977 — 1979

a couple of "incompletes" short of the degree
The Catholic University of America

BA , Comparative Government , 1974 — 1977

Member of Catholic University Debate Team 74-75

Activities and Societies:

Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude

Additional Information

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Carmen Medina’s Interests:

new technology, the future of content, theater and the arts, cabaret, cognition, Puerto Rico, Latino culture, music of all kinds, generational change, belief systems, wine, cooking