KUMC Annual Campus-Wide Leadership Series: January - May

This is a monthly series of 5 lecture/lunch presentations beginning in January open to any employee on the KUMC campus. The theme is "Stories of Leaders: How They Do or Did It" offering speakers and panels of presenters from across our KUMC campus, from the Kansas City area or nationally. For those unable to attend, videos are available.

The Office of Professional Development and Faculty Affairs (PDFA) Campus Wide Leadership Series grows in popularity every year serving over 640 participants in the spring of 2007 to full house audiences with an average range of 200 to 230 per session. According to Robert M. Klein, PhD, Associate Dean for Professional Development and Faculty Affairs, "The leadership series has been one of our most consistently well attended programs. The 2011 Spring Series live up to its reputation."

Suggestions for our 2012 series should be sent to Marty McLaughlin, Associate Director of Professional Development & Faculty Affairs at mmclaughlin@kumc.edu.

Our goal with the series is to teach people, through the stories of other's experiences, how to be leaders. We normally look for three basic components in a Campus-Wide Leadership Series presentation.

• First, we ask presenters to "tell their story"-- their background; what drives them; who their mentors were or who inspired them along the way; and what obstacles they had to overcome and how they overcame them to reach their level of success.
• Second, "address their personal leadership style" -- present the challenges and solutions to keeping everyone focused on the goal simultaneous to overcoming inherited handicaps in their business or life's dream; obstacles and limitations imposed on the job or task at hand; public relations and scrutiny; the challenges one faces from a diverse world; and two or three tips about their personal methods, style or philosophy about how to lead a team to success. 
• Lastly and for the majority of the presentation we ask them to provide a unique focus from their own field or business, whatever that may be.

The series is co-sponsored by the University of Kansas Hospital, KUMC-Human Resources, University of Kansas Physicians, Inc., University of Kansas Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Health Professions plus the Office of Graduate Studies and Continuing Education. All events are offered at no cost to the participants, CE is available and lunch is provided to the first 125. All events are from 12:00 - 1:00 p.m.. Details including locations are available on the Faculty Training calendar. Bring your EEDS card for speedy check-in.

TARGET AUDIENCE: All employees on the KUMC and Westwood Campus