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Linda Fisher Thornton<\/h2>\n

Sunday, April 19 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Linda Fisher Thornton<\/b>\u00a0is an innovative leadership development consultant and author of 7 Lenses: Learning the Principles and Practices of Ethical Leadership, <\/em>which introduces a practical 7-lens model for seeing ethical complexity and 14 guiding principles for learning ethical leadership. A former bank senior vice president and now CEO of Leading in Context, LLC, Fisher Thornton has been in the leadership development field for over 25 years and is redefining \u201cleadership\u201d at a higher level with ethical values built in. <\/span><\/p>\n

She is on Inc. Magazine\u2019s<\/em> Top 100 Leadership Speakers list and has worked with leaders across industries, including Global Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations, government entities, healthcare and education. She also teaches leadership and applied ethics as an adjunct associate professor for the University of Richmond School of Professional and Continuing Studies.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Dr. Kand McQueen<\/h2>\n

Monday, April 20 | 8:45-10:30 a.m.\"\"<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Kand McQueen <\/strong>studies issues of the transgender experience, intersexuality and the inadequacies of our current two-and-only-two sex\/gender way of thinking. As a nationally-known keynote speaker and advocate for transgender awareness, Dr. McQueen will make the case for a greater acceptance of all human beings.<\/p>\n

Dr. McQueen received a Ph.D. in educational psychology \u2014 inquiry methodology from Indiana University and developed the Attitudes Toward the Atypically Gendered Inventory (ATAG-I), an instrument designed to gauge such attitudes. After spending more than 12 years as a university professor, Dr. McQueen now works as a full-time public speaker.<\/p>\n

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Phyllis Braxton-Frierson<\/h2>\n

Tuesday, April 21 | 8:45-10:15 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Phyllis Braxton-Frierson<\/b>,\u00a0<\/b>CEO\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

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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\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":66,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1470,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2020mn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}