More details about the timing of the days can be found by clicking Learn More and Register, but session descriptions of the two days are below:  

Unlocking Mid-Career Potential: Using Data and Insight to Drive Faculty Success 
Mid-career faculty often plateau without a clear sense of what support would actually move the needle for them, leaving institutions to guess at where to direct their efforts. In this session, learn how Academic Impressions’ Faculty Retention and Professional Development Surveys surface the specific challenges mid-career faculty experience, and leave with a framework to articulate your faculty’s needs so you can target your efforts for the most impact.  

The Five Paths to Leadership® Self-Assessment: Developing Faculty Awareness about Leading in Place 
Mid-career faculty are often expected to lead without a clear sense of what “leading in place” actually requires or the soft skills and mindset needed to excel in that space. We’ll open this session with a discussion on what leading in place looks like for mid-career faculty, then explore how the Five Paths to Leadership® model can help them build these skills and develop the self-awareness they need to succeed in a wide variety of roles.

Leveraging the Five Paths to Help Faculty Reconnect with Their Purpose  
In this second part of the Five Paths to Leadership® debrief, you’ll explore a strategy for leveraging insights from the Five Paths self-assessment to help faculty to recognize the strengths or ways of being they are underutilizing so that they can reconnect to their purpose and gain renewed energy for their work. 

Case Study: Building a Bench, Not Just a Cohort—Faculty Leadership at UT Rio Grande Valley
Faculty leadership development often starts as a set of task-based skills, budgeting, scheduling, day-to-day logistics, built from a leader’s own experience rather than from what faculty actually need. In this session, learn how UT Rio Grande Valley partnered with Academic Impressions to shift its faculty leadership program toward foundational skills like trust, feedback, and difficult conversations, moving from a required track for new chairs to one open to all faculty so more people build leadership readiness before they’re asked to step into a role.

Navigating Mid-Career Growth: Helping Faculty Identify Their Next Steps 
“What’s next?” is a question many mid-career faculty wrestle with as they navigate shifting priorities, roles, and aspirations. In this session, we’ll explore how grounding mid-career faculty development in career visioning and planning can help faculty stay on track, get unstuck, and advance with greater clarity and purpose. You’ll also participate in a hands-on visioning activity you can adapt and use with your own faculty to spark insight and forward momentum.

Group Coaching as a Force Multiplier: Reenergizing Faculty and Building the Leadership Pipeline
Ongoing uncertainty in higher education is taking a toll on faculty morale and engagement. In this session, we’ll explore how group coaching serves two purposes: reenergizing faculty by rebuilding community, focus, and agency, and supporting faculty as they transition into chair role. You’ll hear brief case shares from two institutional partners on what prompted their group coaching partnerships and the impact they’ve seen so far.

Case Study: Leveling Up Research and Scholarship—The Academy for Scholars as Leaders at Louisiana State University 
A starting point in transforming a culture of service and faculty leadership lies with mid-career faculty poised to lead change, yet leadership development is often treated as separate from the work of research and scholarship rather than a way to strengthen it. In this session, learn how Louisiana State University partnered with Academic Impressions to build the Academy for Scholars as Leaders, now in its third year, helping mid-career faculty expand and leverage leadership skills to advance their work as scholars, and leave with the wins and lessons learned along the way.  

Facilitating Network and Cross-Disciplinary Collaborations at Mid-Career 
In this hands-on session, we’ll demonstrate a process for helping faculty identify areas of mutual interest or needs to facilitate the sharing of information, resources, or ideas so they can identify opportunities that can be pursued or supported through collaboration and learn effective ways of collaborating across disciplines.

From Insight to Impact: A Mid-Career Faculty Advancement Think Tank 
In this Think Tank session, we’ll work together to develop innovative solutions to the challenges we’ve identified as having the greatest impact on mid-career faculty advancement. This session will leave you with actionable ideas and a concrete sense for how you can support faculty engagement and growth on your campus.

Academic Impressions workshops provide the opportunity for quality conversations and relationship-building through both formal and informal networking opportunities in an intimate setting. Our in-depth and hands-on approach to learning provides you with actionable takeaways.

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