Career Development Track

Career Development: Navigating Growth, Fostering Agility, and Building Intentionality in our Careers
Stone | Track: Career Development
Level: Strategic | Format: Presentation
A new offering in the Career Development series hosted at UPCEA Annual Conferences, this session is designed to offer clarity and agency to what is often a terrifying, mystical, and yet integral part of employment: job change. How do we expand our horizons, personally and professionally? How do we gather the professional development we need to grow? How do we determine what skills and networks are needed? And what are some best practices to navigate the search process and/or the executive search firm? For mid-level attendees, this session will offer insights into the mechanics of job change and agility, and for senior level attendees, opportunities to help develop ways to foster intentional, professional growth for their own teams.

• Wayne Wormley, AGB Search
• Karen Bull, University of North Carolina Greensboro
• Nancy Coleman, Wellesley College

Moderator: Amy Heitzman, UPCEA

Building Your Network: Upping Your Professional Profile and Creating a Personal Board of Directors
Commonwealth C | Track: Career Development
Level: Foundational | Format: Workshop
A new offering in the Career Development series hosted at UPCEA Annual Conferences, this hybrid session combines the overarching concepts around what it means to build a professional profile with the deep dive of taking one very specific next step: building a personal board of directors to help guide your career path. Learn about the inflection points that senior leaders have tapped to grow their own networks, and key steps you can take today to create the career opportunities you want for yourself, your teams, and your organization. Participants will also be guided through a process of identifying and utilizing a complementary group of advisors, champions and advocates—an intentional group of people you consult with regularly for advice and feedback.

• Mary Angela Baker, Salisbury University
• Andrew Drotos, University of San Diego

Moderator: Amy Heitzman, UPCEA

Committee Work as an Intentional Professional Development Strategy… No Really!
Commonwealth C | Track: Career Development
Level: Foundational | Format: Presentation | Tag: Best in Show Mid-Atlantic
Committees - we’re all on them. So why not try to make them more useful by broadening their scope and weaving in intentional professional development as a goal and activity? This session will provide case studies of committees that in addition to their primary role, provided professional development opportunities for its members through the actual work of the committee. This session provides an adaptable framework, strategies, and examples for doing do.

• Paul Nardone, Misericordia University
• Chris Sax, Maryland University of Integrative Health

Moderator: Kristine Rabberman, University of Pennsylvania

Terminal Degree Group Networking Breakfast

Webster Room
Join compatriots over breakfast and gather insights on how to balance the demands of work, family/personal life, and the pursuit of a terminal degree. Whether contemplating the journey or already under way, these informal, table-based, facilitated conversations will help you see your goals to completion and avoid becoming ABD.

• Kelly Newell, Washington State University
  
• Asim Ali, Auburn University
  
• Patricia Szasz, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
  

Moderator: Julie Uranis, UPCEA

Conference as Professional Development: Personal Action Plan, Reflections, Next Steps, Takeaways
Commonwealth C | Track: Career Development
Level: Applied | Format: Workshop
Designed for first-time attendees, this workshop will offer informal ways for participants to reflect on their conference experience, including exploration of personal and professional goals, skill development, and intentional take-aways, with a focus on actionable next steps. Attendees will be guided in small-group conversations around their own highlights from the conference, learn and share strategies for extending their learning and the utility of conference attendance, and encouraged to create an action plan to employ after the event.

• Stevie Rocco, The Pennsylvania State University
• Laurel Hogue, University of Central Missouri
• Greg Milton, Tarragona Associates
• Chelsea McNeely, Southeast Missouri State University

Moderator: Amy Heitzman, UPCEA