15th Annual Academic Leadership Conference

Program Highlights

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

• Welcome Breakfast for all attendees
  • Plenary I: Taking the Mystery Out of Influence and Power
  •  Moderator: Angela Barron McBride; Keynote Speaker: Eleanor Sullivan;
    Panelists: Sarah Szanton and Kitty Buckwalter
• Poster Communication Consultation Session
• Concurrent Sessions to Customize Learning
  • Research Career Decision Making: Lean In* and Step Up
  • Writing: A Way to Curry Influence
  • How to Involve Students in Research and An Academic Career
  • Getting Ready for Your Retirement/Preferment Years
  • Moving Research Outcomes into the Market
  • Tips on Grant Writing
• Networking Luncheon
• Plenary II: Negotiating for Advantage
  • Speaker: Heather Young
• Mary Starke Harper Distinguished Interview
  • Interviewee: Kathleen Dracup
• Introduction to the Poster Presentations and Reception in Honor of Mary Starke
  Harper Distinguished Interviewee
• Book signing by Eleanor Sullivan

Wednesday, November 18, 2015

• Concurrent Sessions to Customize Learning
  • The Realities of Inter-professional Leadership
  • Work-Life Balance: Generational Differences
  • Tips on Grant Writing
  • Using Social Media to Disseminate Your Research
  • Going from Associate to Full Professor
• Third Annual Norman Volk Discourse
  • Moderator/Commentator: Terry Fulmer; Speaker: Michelle DeLizio Podlesni;
    Panelists: A Group of Savvy Leaders