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:
 
Understanding Your Core Purpose as a Leader
To be an effective leader, you must first know what calls you to leadership. A deep understanding of your purpose, values, and beliefs is critical for self-aware and effective leadership. In this session, we’ll work through activities designed to help you detect and refine your core purpose and values, which will become the north star for your leadership approach.
 
Defining Your Leadership Strengths
We’ll dive into the Five Path to LeadershipSM Self-Assessment to identify your strengths. The Five Paths will help you understand ways of achieving greater balance to improve your overall effectiveness as a leader. You’ll assess your own leadership style under normal circumstances as well as in times of stress. In order to get the most out of this session, you’ll need to complete the Five Paths to LeadershipSM Assessment before you arrive at the conference.
 
Inclusive Leadership
In addition to impacting your core purpose and values, how you identify along a range of social identities (such as gender, race, age, sexuality, etc.) also affects how you view yourself and how others perceive you as a leader. In this session, we’ll unpack how these identities impact power dynamics and define equitable leadership, and we’ll practice embodying equitable leadership.
 
Creating Equitable and Inclusive Spaces and Environments
We’ll begin this session by helping you discover how your personal identity shapes the spaces you hold and the environments you help create. We’ll practice critical communication skills (e.g., deep listening, genuine question probing, and suspending assumptions and judgments) in order to foster equitable and inclusive collaboration in a group setting. We’ll wrap up this session by identifying how to choose accountability partners who will provide honest feedback about the environments you create.
 
Navigating Conflict
To facilitate productive conflict within teams, it is essential that you understand your own feelings and assumptions related to conflict. Using the Kraybill Conflict Styles Inventory, we’ll unpack ways to approach conflict in different situations to build a resilient team.
 
The Coaching Leader
All too often, leaders will take action to resolve issues for their team members instead of empowering them to identify their own solutions. More than ever, leaders need to know how to support team members where they are and to coach them in individual ways to bring out their best for the betterment of the individual and the team.
 
Leadership Capstone
During our final session, you’ll share your leadership philosophy and commitments for the next steps in your leadership development. You’ll walk way with articulated next steps, a time frame for action, and ways to keep yourself accountable to continue the work.