Spring 2008 Topics

Nuts and Bolts– How to Successfully Run Your Organization

SGA Exec Board

Do you have logistical questions about running your organization? This session is for you! Find out how to reserve a room on campus, reserve Aramark catering, and fill out business office forms. This session is geared towards student leaders who are transitioning into a new position or are new to the organization.

Preparing for a Leadership Transition

Courtney Sandler, Assistant Director of Residence Life for Residence Education and Coordinator of Multicultural Affairs

Christine Workman, Director of Greek Life and Student Activities

This session is designed to assist you in your process of transitioning positions and new members. It will help you identify the information that you need to pass on to new leaders to ensure that needs are met and the hard work you have already put in will continue after you move on.

Be Excited , Be Existing, Be Exhausted

Laura Ulmer, Director of Leadership and Organizational Development

Being a busy leader can wear you out! Come to this session to learn about ways to avoid being stressed and cope with the craziness that it is to be a successful leader. We will be discussing stress, burnout, motivation, and renewal and how to keep these critical things in check!

Leadership Compass: Deepening Perceptions of Self and Others

Doug Searcy, Dean of Student Affairs

Identify yourself as one of four leadership work styles and learn how important it is to recognize the styles of your peers in order to adequately motivate them. Bolster your group’s accountability by recognizing how the understanding of leadership skills and styles can allow you to adjust your own in order to connect with your group.

Leadership is a Dance: You learn as you go. Sometimes you lead. Sometimes you follow.

Liz Nowry, Admissions Counselor, Keynote Address

Scholars have been trying to define leadership for years. Today we will examine situational leadership. We will also go in depth about four types of leadership styles and decide which leadership style you have. Furthermore, we determine how to use your skills most effectively in the organizations that you are involved. Liz Nowry, a native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in International Business and Spanish, from Marietta College in Marietta, Ohio. While at Marietta, she earned a certificate of Leadership Studies from the McDonough Center for Leadership. Upon graduation, Liz worked as a National Consultant for Chi Omega Fraternity. In this position, she conducted organizational and leadership analysis at 35 Universities and facilitated training workshops to motivate and develop leadership skills for collegiate women and alumnae advisors. Liz currently works as an Admissions Counselor at Wingate University.

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Fall 2007 Topics:
 

• Keynote Address

• Global Leadership

• Ambassador Thomas Boyatt

Ambassador Thomas Boyatt

Ambassador Boyatt received his B.A. from Princeton and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He served in the US Air Force and reached the rank of First Lieutenant. Boyatt entered the Foreign Service in 1959 and served as Vice Counsul in Chile, Assistant to the Under Secretary of the Treasury, Economic Officer at the American Embassy in Luxembourg, and Political Counselor at the Embassy in Cyprus. He returned to Washington as Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of State for the Near East. He was Director of Cyprus Affairs and named a member of the Senior Seminar in Foreign Policy.

In 1975, Boyatt became Minister-Counselor at the American Embassy in Santiago, Chile. He was chosen to be Ambassador to Upper Volta and was nominated and confirmed as US Ambassador to Colombia. He was promoted to the personal rank of Career Minister in the Foreign Service. Mr. Boyatt speaks Spanish, French, and Greek.

Ambassador Boyatt received the State Department’s Meritorious Honor Award in 1969 ‘for heroism in helping injured passengers to safety and negotiating passenger release with Syria” when his TWA plane was hijacked by Palestinian guerillas. He also received the William R. Rivkin Award for “intellectual courage, creativity, disciplined dissent, and taking bureaucratic and physical risks for peace on Cyprus” and the Christian A. Herter Award “for extraordinary contributions to the practice of diplomacy” and the Foreign Service Cup for post-retirement contributions to the Service. Several foreign governments have also decorated him.

Since retirement, Ambassador Boyatt has become Vice President of Sears World Trade, then a partner in the IRC Group, and finally President of US Defense Systems. Currently, he is President of a trading and consulting company and Director of USDS. He is a Trustee of Princeton University and has served as a member of the Advisory Boards of the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, the Patterson School at the University of Kentucky, and is currently the Director of the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University. He teaches at the Foreign Services Institute throughout the year as well as lecturing as education with the world beyond campus.

Language in a Multicultural Society
Christine Workman, Director of Greek Life and Student Activities
Chelsea Haring, Director of Internships and Career Development
Lives of Significance: Global Perspectives and Social Learning
Dane Jordan, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Minister to Students

Panel Discussion on Leadership

Laura Ulmer
Dane Jordan
Nick Delangie
Mike Watson
Chad Alston
Ashley Spenello

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