Conference Agenda


Thursday, June 7
Pre-Conference Workshop with  Dr. Larraine Matusak (see below) (NOW FULL)
5:00-6:30 p.m. Reception with remarks by Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm
7:00 p.m.-on Dine Around East Lansing--Coordinated dining experience (own expense)

Friday, June 8
7:30-8:30 a.m. New Leadership Program Panel Dialogue--Breakfast
7:15-8:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30 a.m. Welcome and Keynote with Larraine Matusak, author, educator, etc.
9:45-10:45 a.m.Concurrent Session #1
11:00-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Session #2
12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch with remarks by Gene Honn of the Community Leadership Assoc.
1:30-2:30 p.m. Concurrent Session #3
2:45-3:30 p.m.Closing Session Address with Shirley Stancato, President, New Detroit, Inc.

 Concurrent Session Topic Areas:

The three concurrent sessions will be one-hour in length and in one of four tracks:

1) Best Practices in Leadership Development Programming: A hands-on focus related to leadership program fundamentals such as: recruitment, marketing, alumni activities, etc.

2) Leadership in the 21st Century – Planning for Diversity: This track will focus on an exploration of diversity related to leadership programs—ethnic, neighborhood, spirituality, socio-economic, career, etc., and how leadership programs have a role in developing an understanding of diversity in communities.

3) Leadership Development Tools:This is an activity-based track that shares a variety of tools that can be used in leadership development programs (MBTI, DiSC, True Colors, Learning Styles, etc.) The focus will be on innovative uses of these tools for personal mastery, self-development, and getting participants involved.

4) Community Leadership in Action: How are members of community leadership programs getting and staying involved? This track is geared to community-based projects that work—service learning, alumni activities, or other achievements of local programs that can be shared and adopted by other communities.


Pre-Conference Workshop: “Creating the Future: Strategic Planning as a Vision Forming Tool.” NOW FULL! Pre-conference workshop on Thursday, June 7, 2001 from 1:30-4:30 p.m. at the Kellogg Conference Center. Registration was limited to 40 people.

This is not your typical strategic planning workshop. Dr. Matusak will show us how we can be one step ahead of the trends and forces of change beyond our control. We will learn how to move in the direction that our values, intuition and intelligence dictate. Leadership is a process, it is relational, it is creating positive change. Join us for this intense hands-on workshop where you’ll learn how to use a value and strategic-based vision to move yourself, your group, or your community forward into the future.

 Dr. Larraine Matusak is the author of Finding Your Voice, Learning to Lead Anywhere to Make a Difference and the founder of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation’s Kellogg National Fellowship Program.


New Leadership Program Panel Dialogue
This breakfast session will start at 7:30 a.m. and feature the insights and observations of three individuals who have started, coordinated and participated in Michigan community-based leadership programs.  The panelists are:   Dan Hurley, Assistant to the President of Ferris State University, who has served as the founder and chair of Leadership Mecosta, a county-wide community leadership development program; Rita Klavinski, now MSUE-Calhoun County Extension Director and past initiator/coordinator of the Branch County Leadership Academy from 1991-1997; and Lisa Swanson, Assistant Personal Banking Manager at Northwestern Bank-Cadillac, who is a 1999 Cadillac Leadership graduate and is now chairman of the program's board of directors.  Thomas Johnson, MSU Extension, will moderate.

All those who are interested in starting or re-launching a community leadership program are encouraged to attend.


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