Leadership workshop: How to be an Effective, Successful, Happy Academic Leader

With Alex Clark and Bailey Sousa

Wednesday, Aug. 14
10:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Studio A/B

For Deans, Associate Deans, Department Heads, and equivalents:

You’re not an academic leader because you think you are, and leadership does not come with a role. Whether you lead academic workers or professional staff, leadership in academic workplaces are uniquely demanding. Change is constant, demands from stakeholders and students are high, and authority is complex. Yet, the growth and support of leaders in academic workplaces is neither prioritized nor informed by research.

Drawing on an internationally-renowned integrated values-driven approach to academic leadership, in this interactive workshop, engage with and harness the best and latest thinking, research, and approaches from our internationally renowned facilitators. Develop the deep leadership practices and skills you need to help you and others meet the academic work challenge and lead for institutional and personal success in today’s and tomorrow’s academic workplace.

Alex Clark and Bailey Sousa’s work on academic skills has been featured in The Guardian, Times Higher Education, and various professional journals. Authors of How to be a Happy Academic they have led interdisciplinary workshops throughout Canada and all over the world on aspects of academic work, including incorporating values, writing publications for impact, grantsmanship, and project management skills. Alex and Bailey are also active in their roles respectively as the Associate Vice President (Research) and the Director of the Peter Lougheed Leadership College at the University of Alberta.

Part of the Educators Summer Wellness Series. See the full listing of events.

Made possible by the Taylor Institute for Teaching and Learning, Campus Mental Health Strategy, and Werklund School of Education