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Erica Keswin<\/h2>\n

Sunday, October 1 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/strong>To kick off the conference, Erica Keswin will present “Now What? The Human Way to Attract, Retain and Engage Employees in an Ever-Evolving Workplace.” Today\u2019s leaders are charged with managing more stressed employees, less face-to-face access to those employees, and more urgent bottom-line concerns than ever before. In this presentation, Keswin will share how managers and leaders can best lead in a workplace that’s changing daily.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Erica: Erica is a highly sought-after workplace strategist and coach with 25 years of hands-on experience and two Wall Street Journal<\/em> bestselling books. She is a trusted guide for companies around the world looking for ways to connect their teams, increase engagement and create a human workplace.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Eddie G<\/span>\"\"<\/b>laude, Jr.<\/span>\u00a0<\/h2>\n

Monday, October 2 | 10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., will present “What\u2019s Your DEI Moonshot?” <\/span>Bringing an outsider\u2019s view and a fresh take to conversations on diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Glaude challenges organizations to go beyond just stating their DEI vision to authentically living its values. Key to this is understanding how the value gap (the belief that some people matter more than others) evidences itself in the corporate world and how it is counterintuitive to an innovative organizational culture that attracts and retains top talent. Viewing DEI through an ethical and highly pragmatic lens, Dr. Glaude urges organizations to set bold goals and shift their approaches to create an environment that truly leverages talent and maximizes it at all levels \u2013 from junior employees to the C-Suite.<\/span><\/p>\n

About Dr. Glaude: One of the nation\u2019s most prominent scholars, Dr. Glaude is an author, political commentator, public intellectual and passionate educator who examines the complex dynamics of the American experience. His writings, including<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul; <\/em>In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>and the<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>Politics of Black America; <\/em>and his most recent, The<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>New York Times<\/em>\u00a0bestseller,\u00a0<\/span>Begin Again: James Baldwin\u2019s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own<\/em>, takes a wide look at Black communities, the difficulties of race in the United States and the challenges we face as a democracy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Higher Ed Panel Discussion – Recruitment and Retention<\/span><\/h2>\n

Tuesday, October 3 | 2:30-3:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Higher education continues to face a recruitment and retention crisis. Frequent, unplanned turnover and positions that remain vacant for extended periods of time disrupt or cripple essential operations and services, impact the culture, and add considerable cost to the organization. To successfully address these challenges, HR leaders must develop and sustain partnerships across campus, including leaders in information technology, student services and facilities. During this panel discussion, leaders from the associations that represent our colleagues in these areas of campus will share recruitment and retention challenges, successes and opportunities for stronger partnerships with HR.<\/p>\n

Panelists are Kevin Kruger, president and CEO, NASPA \u2014 Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education; Lander Medlin, president and CEO, APPA \u2014 Leadership in Education Facilities; and John O\u2019Brien, president and CEO, EDUCAUSE \u2014 Higher Education Information Technology Leaders.\u00a0<\/span>Jami Painter, senior associate vice president and chief HR officer, University of Illinois System, will facilitate the discussion.<\/p>\n

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Dr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"\r\n\r\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell\u00a0<\/b>is the longest-serving president in the 146-year history of Paul Quinn College. During his 11 years of leadership, Paul Quinn College has become a small, private, minority-serving institution that, by focusing on the most persistent, prevalent and pressing problems of our society, is remaking higher education and becoming a movement.\r\n\r\nDuring President Sorrell\u2019s tenure, Paul Quinn College has won the HBCU of the Year, the HBCU Student Government Association of the Year and the HBCU Business Program of the Year. Additional achievements include the college being recognized as a member of the President\u2019s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the creation of the New Urban College Model, achievement of full-accreditation\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n\u00a0\r\n\r\n
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Whitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n\"\"Whitney Johnson<\/strong>, CEO of WLJ Advisors, is an innovation and disruption theorist, best-selling author, sought-after executive and performance coach, and management consultant. She is recognized as one of the world\u2019s most influential management thinkers by\u00a0Thinkers50<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Fortune<\/em>. Johnson specializes in helping leaders grow their awareness, building the skills needed to achieve maximum success in their organizations. Senior executives seek out Johnson\u2019s coaching and consulting expertise because she understands that productive workplace cultures begin with the leader. She excels at helping leaders break through to new levels of personal and organizational effectiveness. Johnson\u2019s services utilize her exclusive proprietary tools, such as her S-Curve coaching framework and team disruption diagnostics, which were first developed after co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School\u2019s Clayton Christensen. At WLJ Advisors, she has mastered her formula for helping executives and organizations harness the unpredictability of change so they can thrive in today\u2019s volatile business environment.\r\n\r\nJohnson\u2019s best-selling book,\u00a0Build An A-Team: Play to Their Strengths and Lead Them Up the Learning Curve,\u00a0<\/em>is being used by leaders globally to build the culture and attract the talent they need to reach their big goals. This follow-up to her critically acclaimed\u00a0Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work (2015),\u00a0<\/em>outlines the key strategy to having an engaged, productive and innovative workforce, which is having a plan for developing all employees \u2014 no matter where they are on their personal learning curves. Using her book\u2019s frameworks, Johnson works with leaders to shape how their organizations embrace and manage disruption by leading individuals and teams up the S-curve of change.\r\n\r\nPrior to WLJ Advisors, Johnson was an award-winning Wall Street analyst. She is one of Marshall Goldsmith\u2019s original cohort of 25 for the #100 Coaches Project, is a coach for the Harvard Business School\u2019s Executive Education program, frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, a LinkedIn influencer and hosts the Disrupt Yourself Podcast.\r\n\r\n
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Michele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n

\"\"<\/h2>\r\nMichele Norris<\/strong>\u00a0is a Peabody Award-winning journalist, founder of The Race Card Project and executive director of The Bridge, The Aspen Institute\u2019s new program on race, identity, connectivity and inclusion.\r\n\r\nFor more than a decade Norris served as a host of NPR\u2019s\u00a0All Things Considered\u00a0<\/em>where she interviewed world leaders, American presidents, Nobel laureates, leading thinkers and groundbreaking artists. She has also produced in-depth profiles, interviews and series for NPR News programs as well as special reports for\u00a0National Geographic<\/em>,\u00a0Time Magazine,\u00a0<\/em>ABC News and Lifetime Television. Norris created The Race Card Project, an initiative to foster a wider conversation about race in America, after the publication of her family memoir,\u00a0The Grace of Silence<\/em>.\r\n\r\nBefore joining NPR in 2002, Norris spent almost 10 years as a reporter for ABC News in the Washington Bureau. She has also worked as a staff writer for\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>,\u00a0Chicago Tribune\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. In 2014, Norris earned a Peabody award and the Distinguished Dialogue Award for her work on the Race Card Project.\r\n\r\nIn 2009, she was named \u201cJournalist of the Year\u201d by the National Association of Black Journalists. The NABJ recognized Norris for her coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign \u2014 when she co-hosted NPR\u2019s Democratic presidential candidates\u2019 debate, covered both conventions, anchored multi-hour election and inauguration live broadcasts and moderated a series of candid conversations with voters on the intersection of race and politics. That series earned Norris and\u00a0Morning Edition\u00a0<\/em>Host Steve Inskeep an Alfred I. DuPont -Columbia University Award for excellence in broadcasting.\r\n\r\nNorris was honored with NABJ\u2019s Salute to Excellence Award, for her cove","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-454","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":86,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3563,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/3563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/annual2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}