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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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