Leadership Academy
The CFDE Leadership Academy is designed to help faculty consider leadership strategies and approaches that can support them at any point in their career.
Academy Objectives
- To provide accessible leadership professional development opportunities to faculty at Emory
- To collectively examine research-based approaches and strategies around leadership
- To consider what it means to be a leader in both formal positions and everyday situations. What does it mean to lead from where you are?
- To build a community of learners and leaders
See Leadership Certification below for additional program information.
Fall Seminar Sessions
Productive Meeting Practices
Date/Time/Location:
Monday, September 22nd, 2:30 – 3:45, Woodruff Library
Objectives:
- Consider and discuss research-based strategies that can make teamwork and meetings run more efficiently
- Consider how group dynamics might influence meetings
Liberating Structures 1 - 25/10 Crowdsourcing
Date/Time/Location:
Tuesday, September 30th, 2:30 – 3:45
What it is:
- Liberating Structures are facilitated activities that help a person or group think with reflection, creativity, and purpose.
- 25/10 Crowdsourcing is used to rapidly generate and sift a group’s most powerful actionable ideas
Objectives:
- Consider an alternative approach to generating new solutions and approaches to tricky problems.
- Experience 25/10 Crowdsourcing and consider how you might use it in meetings that you are a part of.
Inclusive Leadership: The Theory & Practice
Date/Time/Location:
Wednesday, October 22nd, 10:00 – 11:15, Woodruff Library
Objectives:
- Become familiar with the theory and research behind Inclusive Leadership
- Reflect on this approach to leadership
- Consider strategies that support Inclusive Leadership
Liberating Structures 2 - Appreciative Interviews
Date/Time/Location:
Thursday, October 30th, 10:00 – 11:15, Woodruff Library
What it is:
- Liberating Structures are facilitated activities that help a person or group think with reflection, creativity, and purpose.
- Appreciative Interviews help a group collectively identify what it takes to succeed and begin a new project on a positive note.
Objectives:
- Experience Appreciate Interviews and consider when this activity might be useful in groups that you are a part of.
Leading Change
Date/Time/Location:
Wednesday, November 12th, 1:00 – 2:15, Woodruff Library
Objectives:
- Consider what it means to lead change
- Consider the multiple factors that influence change
- Consider what role you can play in influencing change
Liberating Structures 3 - Integrated Autonomy
Date/Time/Location:
Thursday, November 20th, 1:30 – 2:45, Woodruff Library
What it is:
- Liberating Structures are facilitated activities that help a person or group think with reflection, creativity, and purpose.
- Integrated Autonomy help groups move from either/or to both/and solutions. Consider – what mix of integrative control and autonomous freedom will advance your purpose in a given situation?
Objectives:
- Experience Integrated Autonomy and consider when this activity might be useful in groups that you are a part of.
Lawn Bowling with Leaders
A goal of the CFDE Leadership Academy is to create space for faculty to learn from one another. What better way to learn from a leader than to play bocce with them? Lawn Bowling with Leaders invites faculty to join another faculty leader for an hour of fun and learn about their career path, what brings them joy, and more! We hope this brings a little bit of fun, fresh air, and conversation for all of us.
Sounds fun! Do I need to know how to play bocce?
No! Bocce is an easy yard game where all you have to do is roll a bigger ball at a smaller ball. You will play as a team, so no pressure!
What if it rains? It might be hard to hold an umbrella and roll a ball…
If it rains will meet in the CFDE (Woodruff 216) for an indoor game and a hot beverage.
Ok great, I’m in! How do I sign up?
Use the Trumba links below to sign up. Space is limited, so please ensure that you will be able to make the game before reserving a spot. Once the spots a full a waitlist will be created. If something changes and you are no longer able to come, please cancel your reservation so that someone from the waitlist can take your spot.
Upcoming Games
November 11, 2:00 – 3:00 pm with Jeff Staton, Senior Advisor to the Provost, Academic Affairs; Sr. Associate Dean Laney Graduate School
Sign-up to play with bocce with Jeff Staton
November 13, 3:00 – 4:00 pm with Kim Arriola, Vice Provost for Graduate Affairs, Dean of Laney Graduate School
Sign-up to play with bocce with Kim Arriola
We are piloting this program in November for a potential spring program with more faculty leaders!
Look for the second Leadership Is Listening Community of Practice in Spring 2026!
- Listen to a different podcast each week from scholars in leadership and discuss how it applies (or doesn't!) to you.
Anyone who attends one of the sessions will be invited to a networking event to continue to discuss these ideas in an informal setting and chat with faculty in various leadership positions at Emory.
Leadership Certificate of Completion
The CFDE will offer a series of seminars on specific topics, interactive facilitation strategies, and focused communities of practice. Each session will have a reflection question and activity that faculty can choose to do to works towards certificate completion.
To achieve a new level of certification, participate in:
- Any 3 seminar sessions + complete a reflection in practice activity. Everyone session will have an optional reflection in practice activity.
OR
- Participate in all sessions of a community of practice + complete 1 reflection in practice activity
Once you have completed the above criteria, you will receive the CFDE Leadership Academy Certificate of Completion Level I. If you complete the critera a second time, you will be at Level II, etc.
- Increase your self-knowledge around effective leadership practices through exploration, discussion, and reflection in practice
- Add your certification level on your CV to communicate professional development experience