VIP2024 LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
JUNE 7-8
JUNE 7-8
VIP 2024
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
JUNE 7-8
JUNE 7-8
Join us for an extraordinary weekend
Gather on campus with fellow University volunteers June 7 & 8, 2024 and experience our free-to-attend VIP Leadership Conference that celebrates YOU, our exceptional volunteers!
The conference offers two days of thought-provoking, skill-enhancing, energizing speakers and programs, designed specifically for our volunteers. Explore the full schedule of events and make your plans today!
Signature programs
Throughout the weekend, featured speakers and distinguished guests will not only offer inspiration and fresh insights but also ignite meaningful discussions and reflection among all participants.
photo by Adam Ferguson
Featured speaker
Priya Parker (she/her)
author, facilitator
Priya Parker is helping us take a deeper look at how anyone can create collective meaning in modern life, one gathering at a time. She is an accomplished facilitator, strategic advisor, acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, and executive producer and host of the New York Times podcast, Together Apart. Parker has spent 20 years helping leaders and communities have complicated conversations about community and identity and vision at moments of transition. Trained in the field of conflict resolution, Parker has worked on race relations on American college campuses and on peace processes in the Arab world, southern Africa, and India.
Parker is a founding member of the Sustained Dialogue Campus Network, a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Values Council and the New Models of Leadership, and a Senior Expert at Mobius Executive Leadership. She studied organizational design at M.I.T., public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, and political and social thought at the University of Virginia.
Parker’s The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters (Riverhead, 2018) has been named a Best Business Book of the year by Amazon, Esquire Magazine, NPR, the Financial Times, 1-800-CEO-READS and Bloomberg. She has spoken on the TED Main Stage, and her TEDx talk on purpose has been viewed over 3 million times. Parker’s work has been featured in numerous outlets including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, TED.com, Forbes.com, Real Simple Magazine, Oprah.com, Bloomberg, Glamour, the Today Show, and Morning Joe. She lives in Brooklyn, NY with her husband, Anand Giridharadas, and their two children.
Signature program speakers (in order of conference appearance)
Shaun Nelms ’04W (MS), ’13W (EdD) (he/him)
Vice President for Community Partnerships, Professor, and William & Sheila Konar Director of the Center for Urban Education Success
Signature Program + Lunch: Leading with Purpose
David Figlio (he/him)
Provost and Chief Academic Officer, Gordon Fyfe Professor of Economics and Education
Signature Program + Lunch: Boundless Possibility
Wendi Heinzelman (she/her)
Dean, Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Signature Program + Lunch: Boundless Possibility
Lisa Kitko (she/her)
Dean, School of Nursing
Signature Program + Lunch: Boundless Possibility
Sarah Peyre (she/her)
Dean, Warner School of Education and Human Development
Signature Program + Lunch: Boundless Possibility
Sarah C. Mangelsdorf (she/her)
University of Rochester President and G. Robert Witmer, Jr. University Professor
Celebration of Volunteers Dinner
Tom Farrell ’88, ’90W (MS) (he/him)
Senior Vice President of University Advancement
Signature Program + Breakfast: Empowering Tomorrow—University’s Comprehensive Campaign
Karen Chance Mercurius (she/her)
Vice President for Alumni and Constituent Engagement
Signature Program + Breakfast: Empowering Tomorrow—University’s Comprehensive Campaign
John Blackshear (he/him)
Vice President of Student Life
Signature Program: Be Boundless—Today’s Students
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