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Commuter Rate - $1,915 (member); $2,415 (nonmember)
Join friends and colleagues at the 2023 NACE Management Leadership Institute for in-person learning that’s always engaging and impactful. Class size limited to 100 participants.
The career services profession is evolving, informed by changes in our culture, expectations among higher education leaders and students, demands for an equitable and inclusive student experience, and a transformation in employer relations. Now more than ever before, career services leadership plays a critical role in institutional effectiveness and student success. The MLI curriculum, taught and facilitated by nationally recognized faculty, is designed to deliver substantive and timely strategies and practices for leading and contributing to successful career services initiatives.
Designed for emerging and aspiring leaders, you’ll strengthen the leadership skills needed to contribute to and build a stronger and more successful career services team. This program will also promote evidence-based leadership strategies to excel within the field of career services and pave your way to greater organizational success.
Who should attend? Intermediate-level career services professionals aspiring to advance in their careers.
Following this program, you will be able to:
In addition, you'll know how to:
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Arrivals and Check-in
Evening – informal meet up
Monday, July 10, 2023
Breakfast on own
8 a.m. – Noon – The Five Practices of Leadership+ LPI Assessment
Noon – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 – 5 p.m. – Ethical Issues in Career Center Management
Tuesday, July 11, 2023
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast
8:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Transformational Leadership
11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Free time; Lunch on own
2 – 5:30 p.m. – Strategic Financial Planning & Budget Management
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Breakfast on own
9 a.m. – Noon – External & Employer Relations
Noon – 1:30 p.m. – Lunch
1:30 – 5 p.m. – NACE Competencies for Career Readiness
Thursday, July 13, 2023
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast
8:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Strategic Communications & Brand Marketing
11:30 a.m. – 2 p.m. – Free time; Lunch on own
2 – 5:30 p.m. – Strategic Planning for Career Services: Laying a Foundation for Success
Friday, July 14, 2023
7:30 – 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast
8:30 – 11:30 a.m. – Personal Development for Professional Growth; Certificate Completion
Participants will develop their understanding of leadership as an observable set of skills and articulate how the Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership significantly impact their organization and team to increase commitment, engagement, and performance.
In this interactive session, the focus is on you. Using the results from the Leader Practices Inventory 360 assessment (LPI), participants will analyze the frequency of leadership behaviors as perceived by colleagues, staff, and supervisors, and describe how the frequency of leadership behaviors contributes to gaining organizational and staff buy-in. Participants will draw a correlation between personal values and leadership philosophy to construct an action plan for continued professional development.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Branden Grimmett, Associate Provost, Career and Professional Development, Loyola Marymount University
Practitioner consideration and understanding of myriad ethical and legal issues is vital for successful career center management, particularly in policy development and implementation. This session will consider key ethical issues in professional practices, and related NACE resource and case studies will be presented for policy development exercises.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Ja’Net Glover, Senior Director of Career Services, University of Florida – Career Connections Center
Like many practitioners, you may find yourself faced with increasing demands and deliverables. The key to meeting those demands is through strategic management and planning. Attendees will explore the strategic planning process and develop an understanding of core components necessary to increase organizational effectiveness and success using a collaborative leadership approach. Attendees will develop a strategic framework that will identify current organizational issues, including barriers to the process, and learn methods to overcome obstacles.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Suzanne Helbig, Associate Vice Provost, Division of Career Pathways, University of California – Irvine
Current and future trends in higher education require career services directors to exhibit transformative and impactful leadership skills beyond day-to-day operational management activities. Tomorrow’s career services leaders are expected to articulate a vision for the future of their program, design a strategic roadmap for their campus community, activate internal teams and external networks and resources around a common purpose, scale-up efforts and maximize engagement through innovative technology and data integration, and use creative branding and communication methods to communicate the story of their program successes and challenges to their various stakeholders. Using the tenets of transformative leadership and design thinking as a backdrop, this interactive course will focus on building the essential knowledge and skills to lead future paradigms of college career services.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Branden Grimmett, Associate Provost, Career and Professional Development, Loyola Marymount University
As the economic model for higher education comes under increasing scrutiny from many quarters, becoming an adept financial planner and budget manager is critical to the success of career services leaders . Understanding the fundamentals of college and university budgeting practices, developing savvy financial management skills, exploring creative ways of generating new resources and integrating budget with annual and strategic planning are essential to leadership in career services. Drawing from current events, case studies, and interactive problem solving, participants will improve budget and finance strategies for departmental success.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Ja’Net Glover, Senior Director of Career Services, University of Florida – Career Connections Center
How will the revised career readiness competencies move us forward in building a successful workforce? Two years in the making, the revisions reflect the work of a member task force, research conducted by NACE in partnership with SkillSurvey, and recommendations gathered through the NACE membership. The session will provide an overview of the revisions, share highlights about the work of the task force and the research into behaviors associated with the competencies, and review implications for developing talent.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: Tim Harding, Asst. Vice President, Career Development and Engagement, The University of Tampa
Successfully marketing your career center involves an integrated communications and marketing plan along with cohesive brand messaging and innovative approaches. This session reviews the required fundamentals for launching a long-term approach to your strategic communications and marketing efforts.
Following this session, you will be able to:
Presenter: TBD
External and employer relations partnerships are an essential and valuable part of career services. As participants think about enhancing these relationships, you’ll be asked key questions: Why should these employers want to work with you? How will you reach out? What will you say? How do you organize and track outreach? This interactive session will bring clarity to these dilemmas to help participants identify opportunities to enhancing their relationships with employers.
Following this program, you will be able to:
Presenter: Larry Jackson, Associate Director, Counseling & Programs, University of California – Berkeley
In today’s rapidly changing environment, personal and professional success depends on the collective capacity to understand what is meant by building on the best , imagining what can be, and creating what will be. Participants will be introduced to a method of positive planning that is rooted in a process of discovery.
To achieve this self-directed plan, participants will use a tool that is new to most people—appreciative inquiry. Appreciative inquiry is a way to rediscover and tap into our core strengths and highest potentials. Appreciative inquiry helps us develop our self-talk in a constructive way; encourages us to bring out the best qualities in serving our organizations; and helps us develop the goals, dreams, and action steps that support the future of our careers.
Following this program, you will be able to:
Presenter: Théres W. Stiefer, Ed.D., Higher Education Consultant
*Presenters are subject to change.
Class size is limited to 100 participants to maximize the educational value of the program.
MLI 2023 will be held at the Kimpton Hotel Monaco Kimpton Baltimore Inner Harbor in Baltimore, MD. Your hotel room is included in your paid registration fee. Please do not call the hotel to make your reservation. NACE staff will be making your hotel reservation for the entire program.
If you wish to extend your stay before or after, notify our Education & Events team at events@naceweb.org before June 9, 2023. The cost for the additional night is $159.
Baltimore/Washington International is 10 minutes from the hotel and offers taxi, Lyft and Uber ride share services.
Directions by car. Parking is available on-site at a daily rate of $44 per night + tax.
Tuition is $2,685 for NACE members ($3,330 for nonmembers).
This rate includes a single hotel room for five nights, three full breakfasts, two lunches, , breaks , one opening night class dinner, and participant materials and assessments used during the program. The hotel also offers an evening reception hour and offers morning coffee and tea service, but not a complimentary breakfast.
For commuters, tuition is $1,915 for NACE members ($2,415 for nonmembers). Includes three full breakfasts, two lunches, breaks , one opening night class dinner, and participant materials and assessments used during the program; no hotel room is included in this rate.
Before April 29, 2023 you can transfer your registration to a colleague by following these steps:
Due to required pre-work that all program participants must complete, no substitution requests will be accepted after April 29, 2023. (Please note: NACE reserves the right to deny substitution requests.)
In light of the ongoing pandemic, your safety is our paramount concern. NACE strongly encourages all attendees to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in advance of MLI23. NACE will follow all relevant protocols including local, state, and CDC guidelines as we work closely with the training venue to promote the recommended practices at the time of the event.
Additional information will be provided to MLI23 attendees closer to the event date.
For questions about payment or registration, contact events@naceweb.org or visit our MLI FAQ.
