Leadership Development Conference Schedule

Community Forum
Wednesday, May 28, 2008
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm

Registration: 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Institute Check-in and Onsite Registration
Thursday, May 29th through Saturday, May 31st, 2008
7:45 am – 9:00 am

Welcome and Introduction
8:45 am - 9:00 am

Elizabeth P. Salett, LICSW, President and Founder
Gwendolyn K. Crider, MPA, Executive Director
National MultiCultural Institute

Keynote Address
9:00 am - 10:15 am

Brian Gallagher, President & CEO, United Way of America

Brain Gallagher became President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America in 2002 and immediately took on the challenge of leading the transformation of the organization to focus on community impact.  Today, he leads the United Way movement that includes approximately 1,400 community-based United Way organizations, each of which is independent, separately incorporated and governed by local volunteers.

A career veteran of the United Way system, Gallagher began his career with United Way in 1981 as a management trainee, later working in various positions un United Ways around the country.  He believes that the true measure of success for United Way and other philanthropic organizations is bottom-line results: the lives that are changed and the communities that are shaped.

Plenary Panel

"Envisioning the Future: Cultural Identity in the Global Age"

10:30 am - 12:30 pm

Moderator: Gwendolyn K. Crider, MPA, Executive Director, NMCI

Panelists:

• Peggy McIntosh, PhD, Co-Director, National SEED Project, Wellesley College
• Raymond J. Arroyo, MS, Chief Diversity Officer, Aetna
• Stephen Young, Founder & Senior Partner, Insight Education Systems
• Rowzat Shipchandler, MA, Project Manager, Facing Race Initiative™,
  The Saint Paul Foundation

If becoming part of the global age means that we are increasingly aware of our interconnection with the rest of the world, does it follow that our personal cultural identity and our community identity will evolve as well?  A distinguished panel will examine such questions as:

• Is the definition of cultural identity impacted by the interplay between whom we have been and who we are becoming within the context of a global society?
• Does our understanding of community change because we maintain multiple geo- and socio-political affiliations, some of which may be at variance with one another?
• What are the advantages, disadvantages and implications of global citizenship, particularly as these affect personal and national identity?
• As the concept of dominance of one group over others fades and shifts, what new paradigms will be needed to establish an equitable framework for a changed social order?
• Will cultural identity still be a significant issue in 2050?

4 Day Workshops
Thursday – Sunday
May 29 - June 1, 2008

2 Day Workshops
Thursday – Friday
May 29 - May 30, 2008

1 1/2 Hour Workshops
Thursday - Friday
May 29 - May 30, 2008

2 Day Workshops
Saturday - Sunday
May 31 - June 1, 2008