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Jeff Harry<\/h2>\n

Sunday, April 23 | 5:00-6:15 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"Out of all the challenges getting in the way of our success, the one that affects us the most that\u00a0<\/text>we talk about the least is our inner critic. It is that voice that prevents us from taking risks, holds\u00a0<\/text>us back from showing up fully, and tells us what we h<\/text>ave to say is not worthy enough for people\u00a0<\/text>to listen to. In his keynote, Jeff Harry will show us how to recognize our inner critic, bring it into the light,\u00a0<\/text>and ultimately learn how to play and build a healthy relationship with it.\u00a0<\/text><\/p>\n

About Jeff Harry:
Jeff Harry combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work. He was selected by BambooHR and Engagedly as one of the top 100 HR influencers and has been featured in The New York Times<\/em>, Mashable, Upworthy, Shondaland and Wired and has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Over the past 15 years of facilitation and speaking, his main goal has been to help work suck less by assisting leaders in building a playground workplace atmosphere that motivates their staff to do their most vibrant work.<\/p>\n

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Kevin McDonald<\/h2>\n

Monday, April 24 | 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"The challenges facing human resource leaders in higher education and campus\u00a0<\/text>communities are unending: COVID, economic instability, recruitment\/retention,\u00a0<\/text>diversity crises and more. These challenges have created levels of trauma that have\u00a0<\/text>resulted in tremendous\u00a0<\/text>uncertainty in educational and organizational\u00a0<\/text>environments. In his keynote, Kevin McDonald,\u00a0vice president for diversity, equity,\u00a0<\/text>inclusion<\/text>\u00a0and community partnerships at University of Virginia,<\/text> will discuss important lessons learned from\u00a0<\/text>navigating diversity crises in higher education environments while moving\u00a0<\/text>forward with the vital work of diversity, equity and inclu<\/text>sion.\u00a0<\/text><\/p>\n

About Kevin McDonald:
Kevin McDonald is\u00a0<\/text>vice president for diversity, equity,\u00a0<\/text>inclusion<\/text>\u00a0and community partnerships at University of Virginia. Prior to this appointment, he\u00a0<\/text>served as the chief diversity\u00a0<\/text>officer and vice chancellor for inclusion, diversity and equity at\u00a0<\/text>the University of Missouri\u00a0<\/text>System and the University of Missouri-<\/text>Columbia. He has also\u00a0<\/text>held positions\u00a0<\/text>at several other universities, including<\/text>\u00a0vice president\u00a0<\/text>and associate provost for\u00a0<\/text>dive<\/text>rsity, equity and inclusion at Rochester Institute of Technology; vice president\u00a0<\/text>for\u00a0<\/text>equity and\u00a0<\/text>i<\/text>nclusion at Virginia Tech; associate director for\u00a0<\/text>compliance and conflict\u00a0<\/text>resolution at Johns Hopkins University;\u00a0<\/text>and\u00a0<\/text>campus compliance officer at the\u00a0<\/text>U<\/text>niversity of Maryland, College Park.\u00a0<\/text>Prior to his work in higher education, McDonald\u00a0<\/text>worked for the U.S. Department of Justice and for Network Solutions, Inc.<\/text><\/p>\n

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Ira Shepard and Carolyn Pellegrini<\/h2>\n

Tuesday, April 25 | 9:00-10:15 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"For our closing keynote, Ira Shepard, CUPA<\/text>–<\/text>HR’s general counsel, and Carolyn Pellegrini of Saul Ewing LLP will present\u00a0<\/text>the latest information and updates on key cases impacting higher ed employment and\u00a0<\/text>labor law. Then, they’ll lead an interactive exercise where they’ll present the facts and explain the precedent and argument for some recent cases so you can test your own knowledge by judging for yourself which side won each case. The winner in each case will be revealed and questions answered along the way. The decisions are tough for most of these cases, which will make for an exciting discussion!<\/text><\/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\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":124,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3406,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/454\/revisions\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.cupahr.org\/spring2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}