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Sandy Shugart<\/h2>\n
Sunday, March 29 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n In the opening keynote, Dr. Sanford “Sandy” Shugart<\/b>, <\/b>president of Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, will examine the role of HR in creating and building organizational culture.\u00a0As winner of the first Aspen Prize for Excellence, Valencia is one of the most celebrated community colleges in America. Serving some 70,000 students per year, Valencia is known for high rates of graduation, transfer and job placement and has become something of a national laboratory for best practices in learning-centered education.<\/p>\n Prior to his presidency at Valencia, Shugart served as president of North Harris College and as vice president and chief academic officer of the North Carolina Community College System. In 2015, he was named by Washington Monthly<\/em> magazine as one of the 10 most innovative college and university presidents in America. In addition to his career in education, Shugart is a published poet, musician and songwriter and author of Leadership in the Crucible of Work: Discovering the Interior Life of an Authentic Leader<\/em>.<\/p>\n Sponsored by:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_id=”climer” _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text” module_id=”shugart” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.8em”]<\/p>\n Monday, March 30 | 8:45-10:30 a.m.<\/strong> Watch Dr. Climer’s welcome video.<\/a> In 2009, she started Climer Consulting, where she teaches teams and organizations to be more creative and innovative. Her clients have included for-profit and nonprofit organizations, government agencies, universities and summer camps. Climer is the creator of the\u00a0Deliberate Creative\u2122 Team Scale<\/a>\u00a0to help teams understand how to increase their creativity and\u00a0Climer Cards<\/a>, a creativity and teambuilding tool used by thousands to deepen team conversations and generate ideas. Additionally, she hosts\u00a0The Deliberate Creative Podcast<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>designed to teach others how to facilitate innovation in teams. In 2016, Climer received the\u00a0Karl Rohnke Creativity Award<\/a>\u00a0from the Association for Experiential Education.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_video src=”https:\/\/youtu.be\/MygcU1QlM64″ image_src=”\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/MygcU1QlM64\/hqdefault.jpg” play_icon_color=”#f7941d” use_icon_font_size=”on” icon_font_size=”120px” thumbnail_overlay_color=”rgba(0,0,0,0.6)” module_id=”climer-video” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ width=”60%” max_width=”100%” module_alignment=”center”][\/et_pb_video][et_pb_text _builder_version=”3.26.7″]<\/p>\n Sponsored by:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row module_id=”braxton” _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”3.26.7″][et_pb_text module_id=”shugart” _builder_version=”3.26.7″ text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.8em” custom_padding=”||1px|||”]<\/p>\n Tuesday, March 31 | 8:45-10:15 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Phyllis Braxton-Frierson<\/b>,<\/strong>\u00a0CEO\u00a0and founder of PINK Consulting, LLC, and The PINK Brand, has worked in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) for more than 20 years in educational institutions, healthcare, community organizations and other nonprofits. In her presentation, she will share how we can build a common foundation of understanding around DEI in our campus communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n Diversity and inclusion programs have gone too long without applying a developmental approach.\u00a0Using the Intercultural Developmental Continuum as the approach and the Intercultural Development Inventory as an assessment tool, institutions can learn how to attract, recruit, support and retain their traditionally marginalized students, families and educators. Attendees will walk away from this presentation with a higher level of understanding about the Intercultural Development Continuum; a clear description of what stage their institution may be in; and a developmentally appropriately prescription for the key skills needed to engage, support and challenge the status quo in order to promote institutional change.<\/p>\n Sponsored by:\u00a0\u00a0 [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Featured SpeakersSandy Shugart Sunday, March 29 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0 In the opening keynote, Dr. Sanford “Sandy” Shugart, president of Valencia College in Orlando, Florida, will examine the role of HR in creating and building organizational culture.\u00a0As winner of the first Aspen Prize for Excellence, Valencia is one of the most celebrated community colleges in America. 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\nAmy Climer<\/h2>\n
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Dr. Amy Climer<\/strong>,\u00a0an expert in the areas of leadership development and innovation, will offer insights into her methods for creative problem-solving and generating new and innovative ideas. Climer\u00a0has over 20 years of experience leading and facilitating teams, designing and delivering leadership development programs, and teaching teams to be more innovative. She\u00a0has worked in higher education, nonprofits and the private sector, having served as the coordinator of the Accenture Leadership Center at University of Wisconsin, director of the Elements Teambuilding Program in Madison, Wisconsin, and faculty member of Adventure Education at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2019\/10\/tiaa-logo-150.png\"){kind=logo}
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\nPhyllis Braxton-Frierson<\/h2>\n
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<\/em><\/p>\nDr. Michael J. Sorrell<\/a><\/h2>\r\nSunday, October 20 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n
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\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
\r\n\r\nWhitney Johnson<\/a><\/h2>\r\nMonday, October 21 | 8:30-10:15 a.m.\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n\r\n
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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
\r\n\r\nMichele Norris<\/a><\/h2>\r\nTuesday, October 22 | 8:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong>\r\n
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<\/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\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":77,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}