Pre-Summit for Senior Leadership

February 11, 2011

8-11:30 a.m.
Inside Robert W. Plaster Student Union on the Missouri State University campus

Pre-summit highlights

Targeted toward: community, nonprofit, business, education and faith-based leaders
Breakfast with keynote speaker Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch on the value of diversity
Identify the strengths of your organization's diversity policies, practices and climate
Identify the barriers/challenges to diversity, inclusion and cultural competence
Facilitate strategic organizational assessment
Help identify key people in your organization who should attend the April Diversity and Economic Development Summit for targeted skill development

Organizational assessment form

Please download, print and fill out the organizational assessment form. Bring a completed copy with you to the pre-summit.

Fill out the organizational assessment form

Keynote

Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch

Our Changing World: Diversity and Leadership

Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch is a renowned, charismatic, passionate and influential speaker with a mission to empower the next generation of leaders. Throughout her career, Consuelo has shared her personal knowledge on becoming an effective leader in today's global marketplace with hundreds of schools, colleges, universities, corporations and government institutions both in the U.S. and abroad.

Born and raised along the border in a small barrio in Laredo, Texas, Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch is all too familiar with the challenges of poverty, discrimination and illiteracy. Although she grew up without material wealth, Consuelo was taught by her immigrant parents that she was rich in culture, tradition, values and faith.

Registration

The pre-summit is free. Registration closed Feb. 2, 2011.

Disability accommodations

Missouri State University provides reasonable accommodation with adequate notice. Please contact the office for institutional equity and compliance, Park Central Office Building, Room 111, 901 South National Avenue, Springfield, Missouri 65897 or 417-836-4252 at least three business days prior to the program date in order that adequate arrangements may be made.

The pre-summit delivered "understanding of the importance of diversity, challenges and the limitations of being non-diverse."

Pre-summit details

When: February 11, 2011, 8-11:30 a.m.

Where: Inside Robert W. Plaster Student Union on the Missouri State University campus

Cost: Free with registration.

Schedule

8:00 a.m.

Continental breakfast

8:30 a.m.

Welcome and introductions
Dr. A Leslie Anderson

8:45 a.m.

Keynote address
Our Changing World: Diversity and Leadership, Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch

9:45 a.m.

Break

9:55 a.m.

Breakout groups with group leaders

11:00 a.m.

Pre-Summit response panel

11:30 a.m.

Closing remarks

Directions and parking

Attendees may park in visitor parking (lot 13) at the corner of National Avenue and Monroe Street or in Bear Park North near the corner of Cherry Street and Kimbrough Avenue. View all parking lots.

Directions

Go to our Visitor's Guide for directions to the Missouri State campus.