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Jamie Merisotis<\/h2>\n

Monday, April 12 | 12:00-1:00 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"In the opening keynote,<\/span>\u00a0Jamie Merisotis\u00a0<\/b>will share insights and calls to action from his most recent book, <\/span>Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines.<\/em> His vision centers on developing our unique capabilities as humans through a lifetime of learning opportunities that are easy to navigate, deliver fair results and offer a broad range of credentials \u2014 from college degrees to occupational certifications. By shifting long-held ideas about how the workforce\u00a0<\/span>should<\/em>\u00a0function and expanding our concept of work, he argues that we can harness the population\u2019s potential, encourage a deeper sense of community and erase a centuries-long system of inequality.<\/span><\/p>\n

Due to the pandemic, our nation and others are facing an economic crisis where myriad solutions are being proposed but too few focus on preparing people for the work of the future. If\u00a0what<\/em>\u00a0we do has not changed as a consequence of COVID-19, then certainly\u00a0how<\/em>\u00a0we work has changed \u2014 in most cases, dramatically. All of us will need to learn new skills and develop our abilities in new ways, which will mean that work and learning will need to coexist. To help ensure that colleges and universities remain relevant and competitive, higher education HR leaders will need to help other campus leaders focus on development of knowledge, skills and abilities that put human capabilities and values first.<\/p>\n

Merisotis is a globally recognized leader in philanthropy, education, human work and talent development, and public policy. He has been Lumina\u2019s president and CEO since 2008. He previously was co-founder and president of the nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based\u00a0Institute for Higher Education Policy\u00a0and also served as executive director of a bipartisan national commission on college affordability appointed by the U.S. president and congressional leaders. He is the author acclaimed books\u00a0America Needs Talent<\/em> and\u00a0Human Work in the Age of Smart Machines<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Merisotis’ writing has appeared in\u00a0The Washington Post<\/em>, The\u00a0New York Times<\/em>,\u00a0The Wall Street Journal<\/em>,\u00a0National Journal<\/em>,\u00a0Stanford Social Innovation Review<\/em>,\u00a0Washington Monthly<\/em>,\u00a0Politico<\/em>,\u00a0Roll Call<\/em>,<\/a>\u00a0and other publications. He has extensive global experience as an advisor and consultant in southern Africa, the former Soviet Union, Europe and other parts of the world. A respected analyst and innovator, he is a member of the\u00a0Council on Foreign Relations.<\/p>\n

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Nicole Weyer<\/h2>\n

Wednesday, April 14 | 4:00-5:15 p.m. ET<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"In the closing keynote, Nicole Weyer<\/strong>, long-time yogi and founder of Root to Rise Coaching, will provide tools and strategies we can use to help us stay rooted and engaged and avoid burnout in these challenging times.\u00a0<\/span>She will share how we can bring our best selves to all that we do, both personally and professionally, and how we can care for and honor ourselves while still serving others.<\/p>\n

Weyer spent the first 21 years of her career in schools, and this chapter confirmed for her the importance of meeting people where they are. In this role, she helped mentor, support and guide students and colleagues along the path of figuring out who they are, learning from the successes and the struggles, and charting a path toward becoming their best self. Her 17 years of school leadership experience created a first-hand perspective on the power of organizational cultures in fostering wellness or encouraging self-sacrifice, how burnout creeps into our lives, and how we get stuck in a pattern of neglecting ourselves to serve others. She is committed to transforming schools by facilitating a conversation about the connection between employee morale, turnover and school culture by including burnout in this equation.<\/p>\n

Using those lesson-filled years in her work as a burnout prevention coach, she partners with educators, staff and school leaders flirting with burnout to help them learn ways to nourish themselves so they can lead within and beyond the classroom and across campus while being the best version of themselves every day.<\/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\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":100,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2078,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/2078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}