This event has passed-it took place on June 25, 2024 What is a “culture of care,” and how can we use customer service to foster a better, morecaring culture across Vincennes? This workshop will provide: Make sure that you are signed into your Academic Impressions account and click “Express Register” on the right to access the resources.
Welcome to your one-stop-shop for all materials you’ll need related to your on-campus workshop with Academic Impressions. Prior to September 7, 2023, you’ll need to complete two assessments that we’ll be discussing during the workshop. They include the following: Click on the respective buttons above to take those assessments. Make sure you bring your results with you to the workshop as well, since we’ll be reviewing and discussing together as a group. Copies of all other course materials will be available on this site. Materials will be made available shortly before the workshop and you’ll continue to have access to those materials after the event. Make sure that you are signed into your Academic Impressions account and click “Express Register” on the right to access the resources.
This program is for the LSU A&M Campus. Make sure that you are signed into your Academic Impressions account using your LSU A&M credentials and click “Express Register” on the right to access the resources and assessments. The goal of this program is to help emerging and aspiring leaders build a strong foundation of self-awareness and interpersonal skills that will support them throughout their leadership journey. Participants will explore key competencies, tools, and strategies they can apply now and in future roles—whether in formal leadership positions or other professional contexts. By strengthening their understanding of themselves and others, emerging leaders will be better equipped to lead with confidence, empathy, and effectiveness. Empowered Leadership There is no one-size-fits-all approach to leadership. Leadership is contextual and situational and, ultimately, the most successful approach is one that is authentic to the leader. In our opening session, we’re going to participate in an activity that helps you connect with your authentic leadership style. We’ll identify some of the qualities, skills and actions that we think effective leaders embrace and then you’ll have the opportunity to start crafting a personalized definition of leadership – one that reflects your authentic leadership voice. These sessions are in […]
Make sure that you are signed into your Academic Impressions account (create one if needed) and click “Express Register” on the right to access the resources and assessments. Empowered Leadership and Debrief of Five Paths to Leadership | February 6, 2026 | 9:00am-12:00pm ET Facilitators: Corinne Nicolas and Jeanne Hey This session was our first meeting with the group. We facilitated an exercise to encourage participants to begin defining themselves as leaders, asking them to begin drafting a personal definition of leadership in 25 words or less. We asked them to bring this draft to a coaching session for further exploration and refinement. We also debriefed their Five Paths to Leadership self-assessment results, sharing our own as examples. Participants began summarizing their results, reflecting on what they mean and how they shape their identities as leaders in the academic community. If you are unfamiliar with Five Paths, you can find more information on our website. Pre-Work: Complete the Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment. Effective Collaboration, Meetings, and Influencing Up, Down, and Across | March 13, 2026 | 9:00am-12:00pm ET Facilitator: Sarah Seigle Peatman and Gilpatrick Hornsby Effective Meetings & Collaboration – Top-down leadership doesn’t work in the academy. Leaders must have a collaborative stance to be effective, but collaboration isn’t simply […]
The Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment has been used with tens of thousands of faculty and staff in higher education with almost universal praise. The assessment is unique and valuable because it: For the first time, Academic Impressions is allowing university-based practitioners to become certified in the assessment, and to both support individual leaders as well as to facilitate workshops with groups of leaders.
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Transformational gifts are often the result of decades of strategic stewardship efforts that culminate in a gift that impacts the institution for generations to come. However, understanding what motivates and compels donors to make a transformational gift is a key aspect that is missing at many shops. To advance the vision of your institution, you must learn to successfully navigate both the internal and external complexities of high-level donors and gifts. Join us to learn valuable strategies for cultivating and soliciting your top donors in ways that can alter the future of your institution. You will learn how to: Included with your registration is a workbook with action-planning worksheets and stewardship tools that will be invaluable as you develop your transformational gift strategy.
Leading as an academic department chair is difficult under the best of circumstances. You must balance the competing interests of faculty and administration and stretch limited resources, all while maintaining your own scholarship and teaching loads. Add to this the uncertainty and complexity of leading through an ever-changing higher ed landscape, and it becomes clear that the current environment can test even the most seasoned leaders. Join us in person for this essential two-day conference designed specifically to help academic department chairs discover or reconnect with the most effective ways to lead in a variety of situations and circumstances. On day one, you’ll begin by reflecting on your approach to leadership, where you’ll explore ways to enhance your overall leadership effectiveness. You’ll also examine how your position of influence can support and enable the engagement, collaboration, and, ultimately, the success of your faculty and staff. The focus for day two will be to explore one of the trickiest topics a leader must face—conflict—and you’ll practice tools and strategies that will allow you to navigate that conflict with greater confidence and ease. We’ve trained thousands of department chairs over the last 20 years, and our curriculum is designed by former Chair […]
As a mid-level supervisor, you have a unique opportunity to lean into your leadership strengths in order to lead in a more collaborative way to foster innovation and inclusion in your team. Through the Academic Impressions Five Paths to Leadership℠ Self-Assessment, you will discover how you show up as a leader in typical circumstances as well as during times of stress, and use this understanding to identify how to work more effectively with colleagues, your supervisor, and members of your team. You will also have the opportunity to network with other mid-level supervisors from different institutions and share best practices as we model collaborative meeting design. This conference will focus on practical skillsets and practices that will enable you as the leader to navigate change and complexity while still leading collaboratively. You will then have the opportunity to reflect and identify next steps for envisioning your team. The skillsets and practices that we will explore include:
While women make up nearly half of the higher education workforce, they continue to be underrepresented—and underpaid—in organizational leadership roles. The goal of this conference is to bring current and aspiring executive leaders in higher education together to co-create knowledge and deepen your leadership skillset. This program is intentionally built upon Academic Impressions’ leadership model, which takes a holistic approach to leadership across four key dimensions: self-awareness and personal development, interpersonal leadership skills, team development, and leading at the organizational level. If you identify as a woman, are leading at a strategic level in higher education, are looking to deepen your leadership skillset in community with other women leaders, or you have already participated in our foundational Women’s Leadership Success in Higher Education Conference, this experience is for you. Highlights of the conference include:
