More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Planning for the Unexpected
This hands-on session will guide you through an activity that helps you to both understand and articulate your brand positioning and identify key trends and forces that influence your campaign goals. You’ll leave with actionable insights prioritized by predictability and impact, equipping you to navigate challenges and drive success.

Understanding Donor Trends to Inform Your Campaign Strategy
As an advancement vice president, how can you ensure your time and energy are being utilized in the most effective way possible? In this session, we’ll critically examine traditional campaign strategies that often yield limited results. Supported by the latest data, we’ll begin to explore how to realign your efforts with emerging trends and more efficient practices.

Building Bridges: Elevating Campus Partnerships for Strategic Success
As an advancement leader, one of your most vital responsibilities is cultivating strong, collaborative relationships with your campus partners, including faculty and academic leaders. These connections are the foundation for generating bold, innovative ideas that inspire alumni, engage faculty and staff, and resonate deeply with donors. By strengthening these partnerships, you can drive forward your institution’s most ambitious strategic goals. This session will equip you with fresh strategies to foster these relationships in a way that is both inclusive and impactful.

Unlocking Campaign Insights: A Strategic Audit for Continuous Improvement
In this interactive session, you’ll dive into a structured activity designed to assess your campaign’s effectiveness. By reflecting on both successes and challenges, you’ll uncover key patterns and gain deeper insights into the root causes of any obstacle. This technique is a tool you can use on your campus to help your team refine the campaign process and make impactful improvements for the future.

Adaptive Leadership: Insights from the Five Paths to LeadershipSM Self-Assessment
In this session, you’ll explore and debrief your results from the Academic Impressions Five Paths to LeadershipSM Self-Assessment, an intuitive tool designed to deepen your understanding of your natural leadership style and how it evolves under stress. By enhancing your self-awareness, you’ll become a more adaptive and responsible leader, gaining valuable insights to improve interpersonal and team dynamics.

From Routine to Results: Facilitating Collaboration Using the Five Paths
As a campaign leader, your ability to foster collaboration—both within your team and across campus—is essential to achieving campaign success. Learn how to go beyond simply facilitating effective meetings to exploring how you can lead strategic partnerships with key stakeholders across departments and units. Using the Five Paths to LeadershipSM tool, you’ll learn how to create environments that align with participants’ needs, drive shared goals, and strengthen trust.

Leadership in Action: Inspiring Results in High-Stakes Environments
Learn how to foster a high-performance culture that thrives under your unique leadership style, even in high-stakes, dynamic environments. This session will equip you with actionable strategies to keep your team engaged and focused, ensuring they stay on track toward success and deliver impactful results throughout your campaign.

Case Study: Leading High-Performing Teams at the University of Houston
Discover how one advancement shop leverages intentional leadership to cultivate a high-performance team culture and keeps members of their team engaged and aligned toward achieving campaign success.

A Plan Forward: Reinvigorating Your Campaign with Intentional Leadership
In this closing activity, you’ll rediscover how intentional leadership can breathe new life into your campaign, ensuring your team stays focused, motivated, and aligned with your goals. Through reflection and discussion with peers of the insights gained during this conference experience, you’ll:

• Revisit strategies to reinvigorate your approach.
• Clarify your vision to foster a culture of accountability and engagement.
• Identify practical tools to help your team adapt to challenges.
• Drive meaningful results throughout your campaign’s life cycle.