CONFERENCE LEADERSHIP and the LIBERAL ARTS
Friday, October 21, 2011 - Saturday, October 22, 2011.
This Conference complements the School of Professional Studies’ adult degree completion program - Bachelor of Organizational Leadership and Administration (BLA).  The BLA program and the various Professional Studies (PS) courses the School of Professional Studies offers are primarily designed to serve the educational aims, the career interests, and intellectual enrichment of the adult, non-traditional students.  Leadership development encompasses many different areas, issues and topics, but ultimately, leadership begins within the character of a person: a person who makes the sincere choice to actualize his or her potentials in the best ways she or he can.  The School of Professional Studies welcomes inquiries from any person regarding our programs and educational opportunities.

 

A. Joseph Indelicato, CAP (Charter Advisor in Philanthropy), President /Founder Caritas Consulting, LLC, Rochester, NY

Piotr Jaroszynski, Ph.D., Chair, Dept. of the Philosophy of Culture, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

 

Nikki Kacmarik, MA in Educational Leadership, Principal, Madison Elementary School, Ohio County, Wheeling, WV

 

Anthony Koyzis, Ph.D., Provost, WLU

Melinda Kreisberg, Ph.D., Vice Provost and Associate Professor of Biology, WLU

 

Susan McGowan-Koyzis, Ed.D., Dean, WLU Honors College, and Senior Research Fellow, WLU Institute for Innovation in Education

 

Kim Michaud, MA, Doctoral Student and Graduate Researcher, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA and Wheeling, WV

 

Thomas Michaud, Ph.D., Dean, School of Professional Studies, Highlands Center, WLU 

 

John Minahan, CPA, Owner: Working Media Group, Smyrna, GA

 

Peter Redpath, Ph.D., Chairman of the Board of the International Etienne Gilson Society, Tempe, Arizona

 

Richard Riesbeck, MAEd, President: Riesbeck’s Food Markets Inc. and Adjunct Professor, WLU

 

Rev. Paul Tarasiewicz, Ph.D., Adjunct Chair, Dept. of the Philosophy of Culture, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

 

Carrie White, MBA, J.D., Chair, Dept. of Management and Marketing, Gary E. West College of Business, WLU

 

 

 

S C H E D U L E

 

ALL EVENTS AT WLU HIGHLANDS CENTER, RM. 213 OR LOUNGE, UNLESS OTHERWISE NOTED

 

Friday, Oct. 21, 2011

 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM:  Opening Gathering and Refreshments, Lounge

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM: Welcome, Introductions, Opening Remarks

10:30 AM – 11:45 AM:  Piotr Jaroszynski, “Socialism and Leadership: Reversing the Order of Nature,” Comments: Curtis Hancock & Peter Redpath

11:45 AM – 1:00 PM: Imelda Chlodna, “The Importance of the Classical Model of Education in the Development of Modern Man,” Rev. Pawel Tarasiewicz, “We Are Dwarfs Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Some Philosophical Remarks on Educating Genuine Leaders,” Comments: Patrick Carmack and Steve Bertucci 

1:00 PM – 2:00 PM:  Lunch Break (lunch provided in Lounge for conference participants)

2:00 PM – 3:30 PM: PANEL = Leading Change in Leadership Education:  Keely Camden, Kay Clawson, Melinda Kreisberg and Nicki Kacmarik

3:30 PM - 5:00 PM: PANEL = Leadership and Communities of Practice:  Kim Michaud, Anthony Koyzis, Susan McGowan-Koyzis and Dick Farley 

5:00 – 7:00:  Dinner (on your own; local reservations at Highlands restaurants can be made in advance)

7:00 PM – 8:15 PM: John Deely, “Leading Beyond Modernity: Noetic v. Epistemology,” Comment: Peter Redpath

 

Saturday, Oct. 22, 2011

 

9:30 AM – 10:00 AM:  Opening Gathering and Refreshments, Lounge

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM: Opening Remarks

10:15 AM – 11:15:  Carrie White, “Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?”

11:15 AM – 12:15 PM: Camille Donnelly, “Ready or Not: Five Challenges Facing Successful Leaders”

12:15 PM – 12:30 PM:  Refreshment Break (Lounge)

12:30 PM – 1:30 PM:  John Minahan, “Leadership Lessons for New Business Owners and CEOs”

1:30 PM – 2:45 PM: PANEL = Transitioning from Successful Entrepreneur to Successful Leader: Richard Riesbeck, John Minahan, Camille Donnelly, and Joseph Indelicato

2:45PM – 3:00 PM: Refreshment Break (Lounge)

3:00 PM – 4:30 PM:  Curtis Hancock, “Examples of Successful and Unsuccessful Leadership: A Philosopher’s Search for a Definition,” Comments: Joseph Indelicato, Kim Michaud, Tom Michaud

4:30 PM – 4:45 PM:  Closing Remarks

6:30 PM:  Dinner (for interested conference presenters/panelist s at Generations restaurant in Wheeling)

 

Presenters and Panelists

 

Stephen Bertucci, Director:  Great Books Online Programs for the Angelicum Academy, Great Books Academy, Great Books Early College State Charter School, Ignatius-Angelicum Liberal Studies Program, Tacoma, WA

Patrick S. J. Carmack, J.D., President/Founder: The Angelicum Academy, Great Books Academy, Great Books Early College State Charter School, Ignatius-Angelicum Liberal Studies Program, Colorado Springs, CO

Keely Camden, Ed.D., Dean, College of Education, WLU

Imelda Chlodna, Ph.D., Professor, Dept. of the Philosophy of Culture, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Poland

Kay Clawson, Ed.D., Director of Graduate Studies, Professor of Education, WLU

John Deely, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, University of St. Thomas, Houston, TX

Camille Donnelly, Ph.D., CEO Donnelly Leadership: “Helping Leaders Change and Grow,” Grand Rapids, MI, and Adjunct Professor, WLU

Dick Farley, Jr., Washington Correspondent, Cape Cod Today, and Consultant in Journalism and Public Policy Analysis, Wheeling, WV

Curtis Hancock, Ph.D., Professor of Philosophy, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO