2025 Agenda & Topics
AGENDA
8:30am Event Check-In
9:00am Welcome and LEAP Presentation
9:15am Opening Keynote: Dr. Andrea Hollingsworth
10:30am Break
10:45am Breakout Sessions:
Chase Collins
Dr. Mel Anderson
11:45am Lunch
12:30pm Ascent Series
1:30pm Break
1:45pm Breakout Sessions:
Chase Collins
Dr. Mel Anderson
2:45pm Transition Break
2:50pm Closing Keynote: Kimberly Waetje
4:00pm Closing Remarks, Raffle, Cocktail Hour
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Explore Our 2025 Summit Sessions

The Compassion Advantage: How to Lead With Heart, Supercharge Resilience, and Get Results that Matter
In today's dynamic world of work, supportive cultures of care have become integral to success. Without the right balance of compassion and accountability, leaders risk losing their best people. In this impactful keynote, Dr. Andrea shares a powerful framework for navigating challenge and change with the highest levels of emotional intelligence, so we can help those we lead do the same. The result? More effective leaders, happier employees, and more cohesive, connected, and collaborative teams. This keynote is ideal for audiences who are: - Struggling to navigate challenge and change - Feeling disconnected from their work or team - Seeking stronger relationships with people at work - Achieving goals at the expense of themselves - Working to supercharge how they collaborate Your audience will leave with: - An expanded capacity to self-advocate while empowering others - Tools to manage stress, combat overwhelm, and lead effectively - Recommendations for how to say hard things with heart - Practical strategies to lead in effective, emotionally intelligent ways.
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The AAAs of Becoming a More Authentic Leader
According to a study in the Leadership and Organization Development Journal, employees' perception of authentic leadership serves as the strongest predictor of job satisfaction and positively impacts work-related attitudes and happiness. So how do we become more authentic? How do we adopt this leadership style and still be productive? Join Kimberly Waetje for this engaging discussion where she will walk down the three steps to becoming a more authentic leader. By creating self-Awareness, taking Action, and being Around Others, Kimberly will guide you through these three steps so that you can enhance your leadership capabilities and achieve significant returns for yourself, your team, and your organization.