Concurrent Session Round 1

2023 NOW Conference

Exceeding Expectations in a Hybrid Work Environment

Presenters: Allison Savage, Tiffany Reardon, and Fatima Alleyne

Session Description: The pandemic forced higher education to rethink its approach to on and offsite work. In this session, you’ll learn how to set up hybrid environments for success and build and maintain relationships across and up the organizational ladder.

Learning objectives:...

Recharge Your Leadership: Prevent Burnout by Prioritizing Professional Development

Presenters: Sasha Ann Keller

Session Description: Burnout, the Great Resignation, and quiet quitting are all symptoms of the same problem: a lack of individual-focused engagement and motivation that starts with effective leadership. Recharge your leadership skills to prevent burnout for you and your team. This session will equip you to reconnect with your team to develop energizing and meaningful professional development opportunities to help you retain and recruit talent. Learn...

How Leading Talent Trends Shape Your Workplace Interactions

Presenters: Jonathan Gordin, Ali Linder, and Catherine Miller

Session Description: Mercer has developed a set of five talent trends to guide the discussion. The trends are backed by over 10,000 individual data points from surveys conducted around the world of executives, HR leaders, and employees. The trends all relate to key workforce issues. The course will include deep...

Experiencing a Career Plateau-Reconnect, Recharge, and Reimagine Your Career

Presenters: Vaneese Johnson

Session Description: Are you feeling stuck in your current career path? Have you been feeling like you have hit a career plateau? Have you been wondering what it would take to get you to the next level of your career journey? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then this session is for you!

Let's get motivated and take the steps to break through your career plateau. Join this high-engagement and interactive discussion on how you...

Disrupting Our Normal: Reimagining the Cultural Blueprint of DEIBJA

Presenters: Britt McClintock and Kala Stepter

Session Description: It is 2073 and the fight is over…well, kind of. Hearts and ears are open when an issue of inequity arises. You are safe and encouraged to pursue justice. You and all of your colleagues have made a commitment to implementing DEIBJA in your workplace. There’s no need to convince anyone of its urgency. So now what? With inspiration from Afrofuturist...

Become a CEO - Chief Emotional Officer

Presenters: Inga Arianna Bielinska

Session Description: Reimagine your leadership role and become a Chief Emotional Officer. Such a CEO has the ability to take advantage of compassionate leadership. You might not be aware of it, but you have been practicing elements of it for three years while helping employees recover from the pain of the pandemic, political unrest, global conflict, and now economic turbulences resulting in group layoffs.

During the workshop we will...