Leadership through collaboration and connection

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Cohort 7 Think-Pieces (2024) - Download the Cohort 7 Think-Piece Report

• DOE National Laboratories Collective History
• DOE National Labs—Infrastructure Challenges & Opportunities 
• Opportunities for Enhancing Technology Maturation and Transfer at the National Labs
• Our Learning Journey into the LDRD Program
• AI for Science: Shaping the Future of the National Lab Complex
• Enabling a Vibrant Management and Leadership Culture Across the National Lab Complex
• OSELP Itself: Reflections on Impact, Effectiveness and Potential 

Cohort 6 Think-Pieces (2023) - Download the Cohort 6 Think-Piece Report and Presentations

• Reimagining the Implementation of the FFRDC Model 
• GenAI Driven Operational Excellence Across the National Lab
• Governance to Accelerate CLEAN Energy RD&D 
• Becoming Better Together: Advancing a Sense of Belonging in the National Laboratories
• Future of Work Reinvented 
• Discovering the National Laboratory Ecosystem
• Leveraging OSELP Alumni: Proposed Use Cases to Support the NLDC in Advancing the DOE-Lab Complex

Cohort 5 Think-Pieces (2022) - Download the Cohort 5 Think-Piece Report 

• Identity and Awareness of the National Labs
• National Lab Conference
• ENDLESS Frontiers: A Journal for the National Laboratories to Engage Stakeholders and the General Public
• National Laboratories Explorers Program
• The National Labs’ Talent Opportunity Pool (TOP) Database
• System Innovations in Benefits
• Ensuring a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Operations & Research Culture Across the National Lab Complex
• Innovation for Global Security
• Accelerating Innovation Through Multi-Lab LDRD Investments
• Overcoming Barriers for a Modern, Net Zero Carbon National Laboratory Infrastructure

Cohort 4 Think-Pieces (2020-21) - Download the Cohort 4 Think-Piece Report

• National Labs Should Be World-Leaders in Data Management: Explores and recommends a set of deliberate DOE actions that would transform science by enabling National Lab leadership in data management. 
• The Importance of Leadership Agility at the U.S. DOE National Laboratories: Lessons: Explores the institutional attributes necessary to ensuring leadership agility, particularly during times of crisis, and offers associated recommendations for the National Lab system. 
• Pipeline and Recruitment Strategies at Department of Energy National Labs: Provides an overview of innovative pipeline, recruiting, and workforce development programs currently in place at the National Labs. 
• Moonshots: Harnessing the Potential of the National Laboratory Complex to Address Critical National Priorities: Offers recommendations to create a super-structure and framework to enable successful Moonshot initiatives led by the National Labs, and provides next steps for implementing this super-structure as a climate change Moonshot. 
• Building the Future of the Labs from the Lessons Learned During Covid-19: Provides recommendations for enhancing National Lab hybrid work environments and enhancing both remote work capabilities and inter-Lab exchanges. 

Cohort 3 Think-Pieces (2019) - Download the Cohort 3 Think-Piece Report

• To Form a More Perfect Union—of National Labs: Explores the need to create an enterprise-wide approach to optimize alignment of the National Lab system, while maintaining diversity to secure global science and technology leadership.
• Building the National Lab Workforce of the Future: Strengthening Talent Pathways through Data and Strategic Innovations. 
• Illuminating the Role of Women at the DOE National Labs: Significant steps have been taken to highlight the early history and impact of women, however gaps remain in the more recent history.
• Oppenheimer Leadership Network: An Enduring Element of the Oppenheimer
  Science & Energy Leadership Program.

 Cohort 2 Think-Pieces (2018) - Download the Cohort 2 Think-Piece Report

• Creating Leaders: Why, What, and How OSELP Meets a Critical Leadership Need.  Discusses the need for different leadership development and experience focused on the Labs as a system.
• Engaging the Future: Explores gaps in communicating the value of the Lab system, including the need for a compelling brand for the system as a whole and leveraging the Labs workforce to improve communications.
• Meeting Global Grand Challenges through Effective Cross-Collaboration: Explores the use of R&D relationships to enable improved technical outcomes, including step-out research and more efficient progress to solutions.
• Strengthening Relationships to Improve Mission Delivery: Discusses ways to improve the relationship between DOE programs, Labs, and site offices.

 Cohort 1 Think-Pieces (2017) - Download the Cohort 1 Think-Piece Report

• Workforce-of-the Future: How can DOE and the National Labs attract and retain talented leaders to successfully achieve its mission? Publication available: OSTI Record and The Electrochemical Society Interface. 
• CLARITI (Creating Links Across Research Institutions for Teaming Intelligently):  With over 20,000 scientists spread across 17 Labs and highly diverse areas of expertise, how can DOE and the National Labs build more effective teams?
• Regional Energy Centers for Adaptation and Sustainable Transition (RECAST):  Could the National Labs provide broader scientific and technical support to cities, counties, regions, and states through an integrated regional approach?
• International Partnerships: Mindful of its complex mission areas and security interests, how can DOE and the National Labs develop a more integrated strategic approach to international engagements and partnerships?