Dr. Gant is a member of the Senior Intelligence/Executive Service. She was recently appointed as the Deputy Assistant DNI, Human Capital for the Intelligence Community. Dr. Gant also serves as the Director of the ODNI Intelligence Community (IC) Policy and Strategic Mission Outreach; her portfolio includes the Office of the Centers of Academic Excellence (CAE), Office of Recruitment and Outreach, Wounded Warrior and Work Life Programs. She served on a two-year academic sabbatical at Trinity University, Washington, DC as a visiting professor, scholar-in-residence, in International Affairs prior to current assignment. She oversees the Intelligence Community’s CAE programs at thirty (30) accredited U.S. colleges and universities. She establishes policy guidance and execution strategies aligned with objectives outlined in the U.S. National Intelligence Strategy (NIS). She directs and manages a multi-million dollar grant budget on behalf of the ODNI for 17 IC agencies and elements. Dr. Gant establishes and maintains collaborative partnerships with federal agencies, academia and industry in support of the NIS. Prior assignments included senior advisor and special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the Deputy DCI for Community Management about workforce management, training/education, human resources, and IC corporate diversity management. She directed IC-wide inter-agency teams and provided oversight for workforce policy.
Dr. Gant chaired the Intelligence Community Diversity Issues Board (CDIB); the CDIB is comprised IC senior-executive officers from the 17 IC agencies and elements. Dr. Gant has extensive work experiences that include the Department of Defense (DOD); she has held a variety of progressively responsible positions where she managed multi-million dollar budgets for human resources management, education, and technology-based training initiatives. Her career expands more than 20 years and includes positions with Department of the Navy and Marine Corps, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, Marine Corps Institute, Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Defense Intelligence Agency—National Defense Intelligence College. Dr. Gant performed duty assignments in Japan, Oxfordshire, England, NATO in Brussels Belgium, and Italy. Dr. Gant lectured at the Business Institute at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Dr. Gant’s academic credentials include a B.S. School of Business and Industry, Florida A and M University; M.A., George Peabody College of Vanderbilt University; and Ph.D. from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She is a graduate of several executive-level programs: DOD Executive Leadership Development Program, George Washington University Executive Contemporary Development Program, American Institute for Managing Diversity; Diversity Management Institute at Hollins College, The Brookings Institute Senior Level Benchmarking Program and Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government. Dr. Gant’s awards are many; they include the Navy’s Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, Office of the Secretary of Defense Civilian Service Award, DIA Director’s Award, DIA Award for Exceptional Civilian Service, DIA Award for Meritorious Civilian Service, and the Marine Corps’ Commanding General’s Outstanding Employee Award, ODNI Exceptional Service Awards.
In April 2010, Dr. Gant was awarded Harvard University Donald M. Stewart Alumni Achievement Award for leadership and public service. Dr. Gant is the author of several publications: The Pennsylvania State University, American Distance Learning Association On-Line Symposium, (30 OCT 98) Distance Learning Quality Indicators: Teletraining Two-way Electronic Classroom, DEOSNEWS Vol. 8 No. 10, http://www.ed.psu.edu/ACSDE/. She has published articles in the Performance Improvement Journal, International Society for Performance Improvement. The articles include: The Weakest Link: Strategic Management of Human Capital (SEP 04, Vol. 43, No. 3), 30 Key Steps to Successful Diversity Management: Mentoring, Networking, and Sponsorship (SEP 00, Vol. 39, No. 8), Lessons in Developing Distance Learning (FEB 96, Vol. 35, No. 2); Use of Emerging Technologies: Training Troops Around the World (JAN 95, Vol. 34, No. 1); Use of Emerging Technology: Linking for Learning, (FEB 93, Vol. 1, No. 4), and the Defense Intelligence Agency Communique, TQM: Human Needs-The ABC's of Nurturing the Human Potential, Spring 95. Dr. Gant is the author of A Guide – Workplace Success: Ten Steps to Career Advancement (2007). Former DCI Tenet appointed Dr. Gant as the Community’s representative to the President’s White House One America Initiative.
Dr. Gant is continuously involved in community service endeavors that include the Board of Trustees, Episcopal High School, a co-educational boarding school (Alexandria, VA); she co-chaired executive committees with Congressman Cass Ballenger (R/NC). She volunteered as a mentor and facilitator for Presidential Classroom, a member of the Executive Management Advisory Council at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University at the Northern VA Graduate Center. As a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., she has held leadership positions and represented the chapter at local and national level events. Dr. Gant chairs committees for a tri-county working group, Women’s Legislative Briefing Annual Forum. During summers 2004 through 2008, Dr. Gant performed as an advisor to the International Scholar Laureate Program; she managed and facilitated cultural awareness and educational experiences for university students from across the U.S. She supervised educational exchanges in South Africa, Australia, China as well as Central and Eastern Europe.
Dr. Gant has served as a member of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Alumni Board; in 2007, she originated the concept of the first HKS Speed Networking Forums, currently implemented twice annually by the HKS Alumni Board. Dr. Gant is the CEO/Principal of Five Star Consulting, LLC; her clients include Pratt & Whitney, Sikorsky Aircraft, Delmar Systems, Inc., National Institutes of Health-Federal Women’s Program, National Blacks in Government Association, and University of Central Florida-Diversity Program. Dr. Gant was a member of Working Mother Media, Inc. Advisory Group to identify America’s best companies for women. She is a Board member of Women In International Security (WIIS). Dr. Gant is married to Raymond C. Gant, D.D.S., U.S. Air Force Officer; they have two daughters and live in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.