Women's Leadership Conference

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Speaker Application

2020 Conference Theme: Embracing Change

The Call for Proposals is OPEN

Join us on a journey of exploration as we exchange ideas, tools, and techniques designed to modulate our understanding, interpretation and adoption of change. We will create experiences that transform how we embrace and manage personal, professional, social and technological change. As we innovate and explore the nature of change, we will investigate how we respond to and lead through this dynamic landscape to sustain positive transformation while maintaining personal resiliency. Please join us for a dynamic day of learning how to embrace inevitable change and positively manage these changes in our lives, organizations, communities, and society.

THINGS TO KNOW

  • The conference will be Friday, May 8, 2020 at the Ashland Hills Hotel in Ashland, Oregon.
  • There are two session lengths for this year’s conference: 90 or 30 minutes. The 90-minute sessions are designed so that session facilitators and participants can really dig into the topic at hand. Ninety minutes allows time for small group work, case studies, self-assessment, and conversation. The 30-minute sessions are designed for a presentation of a particular tool, resource, or process that the speaker has found to be useful in embracing change in their organization with a few minutes for question and answer. The speaker may share a technological tool, team building resource, or leadership theory.
  • Speakers are unpaid volunteers who are selected by the WLC content committee. The speakers will have their conference fees waived.
  • These proposals are for the breakout session speakers, not for the opening or closing keynote speakers.

IMPORTANT DATES

  • Deadline to submit a proposal: December 1, 2019
  • Notification to applicants: January 17, 2020
  • Final proposals, bios, and head shots due: February 21, 2020

SPEAKER APPLICATION for 2020 WLC

  • Please identify a lead presenter who will be our main point of contact.
  • Please let us know the hours of your availability.
  • Please limit to 150 words.
  • No longer than 10 words.
  • This will be the description that will help your audience know what to expect and how to choose from the sessions on the day of the conference. *
  • Please choose from the list or describe how your different topic is relevant to the conference theme.
  • Topic Subtopic Chart
  • Please provide a brief outline of your presentation. Include your session content, timing and format. Example: Introduction of topic and theory (10 minutes). Case study presentation and discussion in small groups ( 30 minutes). Large group discussion of examples ( 20 minutes). Sample role play and practice ( 20 minutes). Wrap up and final take-aways. (10 minutes) The selection committee is looking for evidence that the 90 minutes will be engaging and attendees will leave with clear take-aways.
  • Please provide a brief outline of your presentation. Include your session content, timing and format. Examples: Introduction of topic and theory. Education on a resource or tool. Sharing of an inspirational experience or lesson. etc. The selection committee is looking for evidence that the 30 minutes will be engaging and attendees will leave having learned something new.
  • List 2-3 learning outcomes of your session.
Speaker Materials

Speaker Materials

If you have been selected to speak at the 2019 Women’s Leadership Conference, please provide the following by February 21, 2020.

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