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College Leadership Summit

March 23-24, 2024 • Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport, Chicago

Supported by AstraZeneca

Are you an aspiring leader? If you’re an active College member under the age of 45, take advantage of a unique opportunity to grow in your leadership by participating in the College’s 2024 Leadership Summit!

Successful completion of this program satisfies the ABAI MOC Part 4: Practice Assessment/Quality Improvement requirement (Alternative Modules).

Program Overview

By attending the one-and-a-half-day event, you will build a foundation for great leadership, gain skills to put into practice and develop a plan for your future purpose. Sessions will cover topics like communicating effectively, preventing and dissolving conflict, advocating for change, improving coaching skills, discovering different behavior styles and much more.

Fees and Expenses

There is no fee for the program and materials. The College will cover the hotel (2 nights at Hilton Chicago O’Hare) and provide meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner on Saturday; breakfast on Sunday). Participants are responsible for their airfare and other travel-related expenses.

Application Process

Applicants must be active College members under the age of 45 or in the first ten years of practice. To be considered, please complete the online application by February 16, 2024. Applicants will be notified by Feb. 23. A maximum of 20 applicants will be accepted into the program.

Dates to remember

February 16 – Application deadline
February 23 – Applicants notified
March 23-24 – College Leadership Summit, Hilton Chicago O’Hare, Chicago, IL

“The Summit exceeded my expectations. It provided me with real tools to improve my leadership skills and interpersonal communication in my practice, in the ACAAI, and in my personal life.”

– Previous participant

Schedule at a Glance

(Subject to change.)

College 101 – Learn about the history of the College and the specialty, the role your predecessors have played in advancing health care, the foundations of governance, ethics and mentoring, and the importance and privilege of the role you could assume as a possible future leader.

Advocating Effectively – As a leader in your specialty, you represent the future. Be prepared to effectively advocate for the future and represent your specialty with training in public policy reform, best practices for engaging and influencing the public and policy makers, and key skills to become an effective champion of the specialty.

Changing the Mind’s Blueprints & Habits – Neuroscience shows us that our brain’s command center guides our attitudes and actions. Thankfully, we also now know that we can change the way our neurons and dendrites wire and fire (neuroplasticity). We discuss these insights for greater understanding of the internal dynamics of those we lead and co-work with.

Overcoming Limiting Beliefs & Practices – We explore how the human mind works while taking in information, forming stories and beliefs about what we see, hear and experience, and how that becomes part of the subconscious (but still operates below the surface). Those beliefs still guide how we respond to others and establish automatic practices that may or may not work for current situations and solutions.

Becoming More Responsive – Lack of responsiveness decreases trust and morale. It also limits how much valuable information a leader or team member acquires for decision-making and problem solving. We explore many ways to increase participant’s responsiveness with their team members.

Exploring the Influence of Positive Communication – No matter how good a communicator a leader or team member is, we hold that every one of us can improve this huge field of skills. In total, we cover an overview of the interrelated skills and awareness points involved with behavior styles, paraphrasing for clarity, asking powerful questions, conscious listening, empathizing for bonding, and distinguishing subjective from objective communication (separating fact from fiction).

Preventing & Dissolving Conflict – Disagreement between and amongst people is inevitable. But combat is optional. We explore the many causes of conflict, the tried and true methods to deal with conflict, and how to add to our skill set and insight areas for reducing friction and therefore ineffectiveness with others.

Improving Developmental Coaching Skills – Developing your own leadership skills and those of team and committee members’ skills is an essential part of creating high functioning teams. The program delivers a highly organized set of actions to take and how to implement them for best results. Participants engage in an experiential role play using the principles and practices.

Demonstrating Courage in Interactions – Every human being, especially leaders and including team members, have fears. Fear often holds us back. That is not a good thing for leaders responsible for getting work done with team members. Our exercises are designed to get participants in touch with their courage to move through or overcome fears. Attendees discover that they have more strength to overcome fears when in difficult situations than they have previously known or used.

Effective Committee Work – How effective committees work and how to be an effective individual committee member will be covered with real life practical application of these elements.

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Ready to join us?

Submit your application by Feb. 16, 2024. Questions? Contact Kate Barcal.

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