The Georgetown University Office of Advancement Leadership Program supports advancement senior leaders to develop skills to engage in values-based actions and decision making within our advancement context and when engaging with campus partners and valued constituents outside of the institution. From February to June 2025, this inaugural cohort of will engage in four in-person sessions designed to foster and strengthen OA’s identified leadership principles—act with integrity; courageous, trustworthy, and effective communication; accountability and resiliency; and care for the whole person. Between sessions, the cohort will have the opportunity to practice applying what is learned and explore additional leadership development through supplemental resources. 

Agenda topics are subject to change based on ongoing collaboration between Georgetown and Academic Impressions. Please revisit this page for updated pre-work and other information in advance of each session. 

March 17-18, 2025 (Rescheduled from February 12-13, 2025)

To prepare for this session:

1. If you have not already done so, please complete The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment – Academic Impressions

This assessment sheds light on your strengths and potential blind spots by examining five key forms of intelligence including intellectual, emotional, intuitive, action, and reflective. The assessment will help you understand ways of achieving greater balance among the five forms of intelligence, so that you can improve your overall effectiveness as a leader. It should take about 15 minutes to complete. Please note that once you begin the assessment, you will not be able to save it to complete later, so make sure that you have enough time to answer all the questions.

Once done, your results will be automatically emailed to you from webmaster@academicimpressions.com (make sure to check your inbox and spam folder) and they will also appear here: https://www.academicimpressions.com/my-account/my-five-paths-results/

2. Complete this brief pre-test assessment prior to the kickoff. It should take you less than 5 minutes to complete. https://forms.office.com/r/8GAcxqfnVc  

Recommended resources post-session: 

See the resource folder for the following two items:  

1. A Five Paths to Leadership® reflection worksheet 

2. A facilitation guide for the Rose-Bud-Thorn activity 

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April 22-23, 2025

To prepare for this session:

Please take the Style Matters conflict style inventory and bring a printed or digital version of your results to the session:

First-time user: 

1. Go to the Style Matters site. Important: For the code to work properly, please use that login location and not others that you may find on the Riverhouse site. 

2. Follow instructions there to enter your name, email, password, and access code, which is: k7jk67vRND8  

The code is not case specific. You can type it by hand or copy and paste it from this email to the login. Then click Login to Style Matters. 

3. Welcome to Style Matters displays on your screen. You’re there! Just follow instructions. It takes about 15 minutes to take the inventory. You will see your score report as soon as you’ve finished taking the inventory and you will also receive it in your email.

If you need technical assistance, contact Riverhouse ePress at center@riverhouseepress.com 

Existing user: 

1. From top menu, click on “Style Matters Online”. 
2. Select “User login”. 
3. Select “Login for Registered User.” 
4. Enter your credentials (email and password).  If you do not remember your username and password, you should see a link below that says “Forgot Login.” 
5. Use the access code above to take the assessment.  

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Please check back soon for updated agenda topics for the following session:

June 17, 2025