New for 2024! Stay for an Extra Day of Action Learning & Networking
Attend a Post-Conference Workshop
APRIL 4, 2024 | 8:30AM - 4:30PM
Investing in Your Best Self
Getting right how you show up can skyrocket your career, your leadership, and your culture. In this full-day lively post-conference workshop, learn from best-selling author and Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership CEO Susan MacKenty Brady how to increase your value, create cohesion, and inspire the best people to want to join, stay, and fully engage.
- BUILD the capability to return to your best self and catch your inner saboteur/ critic in the act.
- ENGAGE in action learning through interactive group work and individual reflection.
- NETWORK through facilitated and open peer engagement opportunities.
- LEAVE with a copy of our best-selling book: Arrive and Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership.
This full-day program is delivered in-person only and can be bundled with the Simmons Leadership Conference or purchased as a stand-alone day of learning.
$695
$895 if not bundled with a conference ticket purchase.
APRIL 4, 2024 | 8:30AM - 12:00PM
Inclusive Leadership in Action
Navigating dimensions of difference and heeding the call to “lead inclusively” can be confusing and sometimes downright difficult. This half-day highly interactive post-conference workshop, led by Inclusive Leadership expert and author Elisa van Dam and Dr. Gary Bailey, Assistant Dean for Community Engagement & Social Justice, offers a simple framework that encompasses the essential concepts that matter most when putting inclusive leadership into action.
- UNDERSTAND 6 actions of The Work of the Inclusive Leader.
- GAIN INSIGHTS about how to incorporate specific inclusive behaviors into your leadership.
- NETWORK through facilitated and open peer engagement opportunities.
- LEAVE with a copy of our acclaimed Inclusive Leader’s Playbook.
This half-day program is delivered in-person only and can be bundled with the Simmons Leadership Conference or purchased as a stand-alone day of learning.
$495
$695 if not bundled with a conference ticket purchase.
Workshop Facilitators
Institute Experts
Susan MacKenty Brady
Investing in Your Best Self
CEO, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Susan MacKenty Brady
Investing in Your Best Self
CEO, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Susan is the Deloitte Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at Simmons University and the first Chief Executive Officer of The Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership.
Susan has previously published two books on leadership. Her third, co-authored with former Executive Chair of the Board of Deloitte US Janet Foutty and Simmons University President Dr. Lynn Perry Wooten, Arrive & Thrive: 7 Impactful Practices for Women Navigating Leadership (McGraw-Hill), debuted in April 2022 and landed on the best-seller list in the Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly, and USA Today.
Susan also serves as emeritus board member for Strong Women, Strong Girls and as a Strategic Advisor for the relationship technology company, Our. Love.
Susan resides in the Boston area and is the proud Mom of two awesome daughters and two rambunctious Portuguese Water Dogs.
Dr. Gary Bailey
Inclusive Leadership in Action
Assistant Dean for Community Engagement & Social Justice, College of Social Sciences, Policy & Practice, Simmons University
Dr. Gary Bailey
Inclusive Leadership in Action
Assistant Dean for Community Engagement & Social Justice, College of Social Sciences, Policy & Practice, Simmons University
Dr. Gary Bailey is Assistant Dean for Community Engagement and Social Justice at the College of Social Sciences, Policy and Practice at Simmons University. He is also a Professor of Record in Simmons’s Schools of Social Work and Nursing and Health Sciences. Gary has devoted his career to sharing his deep knowledge, expertise, and leadership in the fields of Social Work, Public Health, Youth Education, and Affordable Housing.
Gary currently serves as President of the NASW-Assurance Services, Inc; he is a past president of the International Federation of Social Workers based in Bern, Switzerland—the first person of color to hold this post. He holds advisory and board roles with the North American and Caribbean Association of Schools of Social Work’s Council on Social Work Education.
At Boston University School of Public Health Maternal and Child Health Center for Excellence, Gary serves as a mentor in the Diversity Scholars Leadership Program. Gary’s advocacy for youth education includes serving as Chair of the Board of Women of the Dream, Inc. and President of the Board for the Fenway High School. He is also vice-chair of the board .the Massachusetts Educational Financing Authority (MEFA). Gary’s commitment to advancing the availability of affordable housing includes leadership roles for For Our CommUnitieS, Inc. (FOCUS, Inc.) and on the board of United South End Settlements.
Gary is a longstanding member of Boston’s historic Union United Methodist Church, where he is the chair of the Church Council and a member of its Leadership Team.
Elisa van Dam
Inclusive Leadership in Action
Vice President, Allyship & Inclusion, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Elisa van Dam
Inclusive Leadership in Action
Vice President, Allyship & Inclusion, Simmons University Institute for Inclusive Leadership
Elisa van Dam brings a wealth of experience in gender equity and inclusion to her role as head of the Allyship and Inclusion practice area. Elisa works with organizations and individual leaders to increase their understanding and practice of inclusive leadership behaviors. In collaboration with other Institute Fellows, she creates and delivers research-based content and programming, based on our proprietary framework that demystifies the Work of the Inclusive Leader™. She is also responsible for developing and delivering engaging learning experiences for women leaders, including leading the development of the Arrive and Thrive Certificate Program for Women, launching in May 2023.
She recently published The Inclusive Leader’s Playbook: The Work of the Inclusive Leader with co-author Susan MacKenty Brady.
Elisa also maintains a private coaching practice, working with women on how to successfully navigate maternity leave.
Elisa lives in the Boston area with her choreographer husband, their young adult son, and a willful rescue cat.
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