Summary of Colloquia Themes and Topics

• Demystifying artificial intelligence: What is it, and why are we all talking about it? - By Luyen Chou
• What does AI mean for the future of labor, work, and more importantly, education?- By Luyen Chou

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• Nurturing Organizational Culture for the Multi-generational Workplace, Teresa Preister and Dr. Shane McFeeley, Quantum Workplace.
• Understanding the Four-Generation Modern Workplace, Dr. Nick Neupauer and Dr. Case Willoughby, Butler Community College.
• Engaging Generational Strengths: Unlocking Potential in a Multigenerational Workplace, Dr. Jun Jun Feng and Dr. Mark Reckmeyer, Gallup.

• Reimaging Work - Heather McGowan
• Toward a More Equitable Future - Marina Gorbis
• The Workforce is Multi-Everything - Damon Williams | password: @nixla

• The Power of Story - Shane Meeker, Founder of StoryMythos and Organizational Storyteller, Proctor & Gamble
• The Power of Positivity: Abundance, Deviance & Influence - Dr. Kim Cameron, Professor & Director, The Center for Positive Leadership, Ross School of Business, The University of Michigan
• Creating and Maintaining a Culture of Innovation - Matt Cardwell, Editor-in-Chief, Rocket Publishing House, Rocket Companies
• Lead with Joy and Watch your Teams Fly, Rich Sheridan, CEO and Chief Storyteller, Menlo Innovations

• Managing Turbulence in a World at Risk - Dr. Richard Alfred, Author, Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan - Co-founder, Strategic Horizon Network
• Strategies for Increasing Mental Well-Being in the Military - Lt. Colonel, Dr. Robert Koffman, retired U.S. Navy and former Director of Deployment Health/Psychological Health for Navy/Marines; Lt. Colonel, Dr. Arthur Miller, JSPOC Deputy Command Psychologist and Wyly Gray, Former U.S. Marine and Founding Director, of Veterans of War.
• You Management: Strategies to Avoid Burnout, Boost Resilience and Accelerate Success, Collette Carlson, human behavior expert and CPAE speaker hall of fame member.

• Empathy, Equity and the Return to a Post-COVID Workplace
  Emily Dickens, Chief of Staff, Head of Government Relations and Corporate Secretary, National Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Insights on Disruption - Lessons from Airbnb & the Modern Elder Academy, before, during and after COVID
  Chip Conley, Former VP for Global Strategy & Hospitality, Airbnb/Co-Founder, the Modern Elder Academy
• Crisis Recovery & Healing - Appreciative Inquiry as a post-COVID tool
  Dr. David Cooperrider , Fairmount Minerals Professor of Social Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western
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• Modernizing the Mobility Narrative - Michael Collins, Vice President, Jobs for the Future
• How to Be an Anti-Racist - Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• Biased, How to Uncover the Hidden Prejudice that Shapes What We See, Think and Do - Dr. Jennifer Eberhardt
• Action Steps for Advancing Equity on Campus - Dr. Shaun Harper

• America and the Widening Service Gap, Michael Brown, Executive Director at Nevada Governor's Office of Economic Development
• Zappo's: A Values Driven Culture of Excellence
• From Like to Love - How to make others fall in love with your organization, Keith Alper, CEO, Nitrous Effect, Inc.
• Disrupting Disruption, Randy VanWagoner & Marcia Ballinger
• Site Visits:
  • Zappo's
  • The Smith Center
  • Trinity Church
  • Bellagio Food & Beverage
  • Bellagio Hotel & Casino

• The Fundamentals of Social Enterprise, David Miller, Rebecca Arno and Janney Carpenter, Barton Institute for Philanthropy & Social Enterprise
• The Financial State of Higher Education, Chris Mullin, Director, Strong Start to Finish
• Fundamentals of the Entrepreneurial Mindset, Chris Heivly, Denver TechStars; Co-founder, MapQuest
• Site Visits:
  • Women's Bean Project
  • Mental Health Center of Denver, Dahlia Campus for Health and Well Being
  • Access Gallery
  • Access Gallery

• AI: Bringing Equity Front and Center - Dr. Peter Smith, Orkland Chair, Professor of Innovative Practices in Higher Education, University of Maryland
• Learning and Work: How AI will Bring them Together - Beth Porter, CEO and Co-Founder, RIFF Learning
• Equity and Inclusion in the Age of Artificial Intelligence - Maria Flynn, CEO of Jobs for the Future
• The Future of Work: Joseph Fuller, Harvard Business School Professor of Practice and Co-Leader for the HBS Future of Work Initiative
• Site Visits:
  • Admit Hub
  • Catalant
  • Federal Reserve of Boston
  • Microsoft R&D Garage

• Bandwidth Recovery: Helping Students Reclaim Cognitive Resources Lost to Poverty, Racism and other 'Differentisms' - Dr. Cia Verschelden, Executive Director of Institutional Assessment - University of Central Oklahoma
• Strategic Diversity Leadership - Driving Change for Equity - Dr. Damon Williams, Chief Catalyst, Center for Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Laboratory - University of Wisconsin - Madison
• The Future of Educational Leadership: The Roles of Equity and Design - Antoinette Carroll, Executive Director, Creative Reaction Lab
• Site Visits:
  • iLOFT - Mesa College
  • San Diego Gas & Electric
  • Rise at the Jacobs Center
  • The Alpha Project

• Six Things Innovators Do Differently – Greg Satell, Author, Mapping Innovation
• How the Internet of Things will Change Our World – Raj Veeramani, PhD – Professor, College of Engineering and Wisconsin, Founding Director, Internet of Things, University of Wisconsin
• Individualization and Game Based Learning – Dan Norton, Chief Creative Officer and Founding Partner, Filament Games
• Individualization and Students on the Brink, Jed Richardson, PhD, Acting Director, the Hope Lab, University of Wisconsin
• Site Visits:
  • ETC Headquarters
  • Sector 67
  • Filament Games
  • EatStreet

• Transformative Resilience - Ryan Polly, Manager of Talent Strategies for Leadership, Learning, and Diversity, University of Vermont Medical Center
• Our Extraordinary Future - Dr. Roger Selbert, Principal, Growth Strategies Group
• Panel: Disrupting Food Systems to Address Food Insecurities
  Travis Marcotte, Exec. Dir. Intervale Center
  Paul Costello, Exec. Dir., VT Council on Rural Development
• How Core Values Can Drive the Brand  - Rob Michalak – Global Social Mission Manager, Ben & Jerry’s
  Site Visit:  Factory Tour – Ben & Jerry’s Headquarters, Waterbury, VT
• MOOCs - The Evolution of a Disruptor-  Nina Hunteman, Director of Academic Partnerships, EDx

• How Predictive Analytics are Changing Higher Education - Mark Miliron, CEO and President, Civitas
• Thriving in Disruption with 4DX: Four Disciplines of Execution -  Chris Roberts, Regional Trainer, Franklin-Covey
• The 4DX Journey at the Alamo Colleges -Dr. Bruce Leslie, Chancellor, Alamo Colleges
• Site Visits:
  • Geekdom:  A collaborative co-working space in Texas, and the heartbeat of the San Antonio start up ecosystem.
  • San Antonio Spurs Sports & Entertainment: An NBA Team with an educational mission
  • Northwest Vista College
• Expectations Meet Reality – the underprepared student and community colleges -  Dr. Linda Garcia, Assistant Director of College Relations for the Center for Community College Student Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin

• Community College 2020: The Paradox of Leadership  (Dick Alfred)
• Understanding the Essentials of Community Engagement (Dr. Jamie Talbott,  Professor of Community Engagement Point Park University & Kendra Ross, Ph.D., Candidate in Community Engagement, Point Park University
• How Pittsburgh Became the “Most Livable City in America”  (Dr. Don Marinelli, Academic Director, Entertainment Technology, Columbia University School of Professional Studies)
• Community Engagement in Action – A Panel of Doers – Aradhna Oliphant, Director, Leadership Pittsburgh, Gregg Bahr, Grable Foundation and the Remake Learning Initiative; Bob Delach, Zulama Education Gaming Initiative; Jess Trybus, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University & CEO SimCoach Studios; Bill Flanagan, Chief Corporate Relations Officer for the Allegheny Conference on Community Development
• Site visits to explore how area businesses have benefited from a community engagement approach:
  • Pittsburgh Children’s Museum
  • Energy Innovation Center
  • REEL Teens, Pittsburgh
  • 31st Street Movie Studios
• Rethinking Educational Delivery to Increase Community Engagement and Student Learning (Julian Alssid, Chief Workforce Strategist, College for America at Southern New Hampshire University)

• First globals (born between 1979 and 1994) as a transformative group
• Skills and knowledge needs in a technological, information-based society
• The impact of nanotechnology on our future
• The power of stretch

• The Future: brand, networks and power (Dick Alfred)
• Megaforces and High Performing Organizations: using crowdsourcing to address challenges in higher education (Allan Afuah, UofM School of Business)
• Site visits to explore how organizations have developed and are protecting brand while navigating megatrends (Whole Foods, REI, Downtown Home and Garden)
• Visit with Mark Hodash (Ann Arbor Entrepreneur)
• Zingerman’s approach to creating a vision of greatness (Ann Lofgren, Zingtrain Training)

• Adapting to a turbulent landscape: the new leadership (Dick Alfred)
• Organizational learning and life cycles and the power of networks in supporting new initiatives (Daniel Kim, Pegasus Communication)
• Using big data and analytics as tools in disruptive transformation (Bank of New York Mellon)
• Cross college discussion sessions on managing disruptive transformation and tour and overview of MC’s allied health partnerships & facilities

• Community colleges and the future…what if? (Dick Alfred)
• New thinking about organizational performance and leadership—positive energy in the workplace (Kim Cameron, UofM School of Business)
• Case study: Building for the future (Dick Alfred)
• Joy Inc.: How we built a workplace people love (Tour of Menlo Innovation with CEO, Rich Sheridan)

• Leading and managing disruptive innovation (Otto Lee, San Diego Community College District)
• Preparing the infrastructure for disruptive innovation: (Ann Welsh, University of Cincinnati)
• Case study on implementing disruptive innovation--Putting structure and process to disruptive innovation (Steve Paulus, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital System)

• Call to action for community colleges and entrepreneurship (Jonathan Robinson, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation)
• What entrepreneurs need most: coaching, capital, and commercialization capabilities (Roy Church, LCCC)
• The Impact of coaching, capital and capabilities through community colleges (Panel discussion with 3 LCCC entrepreneurial partners)
• Essential Talent to Drive Re-invention (Panel discussion with 4 employers)
• Visit with LCCC’s initiatives:
  • Ground Up
  • Blackstone Network Colleges
  • Rapid Prototyping Lab
  • SMART commercialization center and
  • iLOFT

• Community Colleges on the threshold of restructuring? (Dick Alfred)
• Planning for disruption: Re-conceptualizing an industry—disruptive transformation in print media (Laurel Champion, AnnArbor. Com)
• Leading through disruption--Case Study in Institutional restructuring (Dan Phelan, Jackson Community College)
• Adapting to disruption--Leading under pressure (Lynn Wooten, UofM School of Business)

• Re-visioning organizational performance--constructs involved in performance metrics & models (Dick Alfred)
• The Objective Face of Performance (Ed Kelty, Rio Salado College)
• People, Perception and Performance (Steve Paulus, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital)
• Designing customer experience—the cognitive dimension of performance (Keystone staff)

• Principles and applications of design methodology (Ann Welsh, University of Cincinnati)
• Case study: Visit with Quicken Loans—how they identified market needs and created products and services to match them (Matt Cardwell, Vice President, Marketing)

• Introduction to UC design thinking methodology
• Understanding the user
• Using storytelling and games to establish needs and roadblocks
• Building a tool for use at each college to engage others in “the quest”

• The external landscape (Noah Brown, ACCT)
• University of Phoenix for-profit methods and processes (Roger Bober, University of Phoenix Detroit Metro Campus)
• Cross-college work teams—Case study on redesign to impact the completion agenda

• Principles of organizational design and design thinking (IDEO corporation)
• Visit with The Wine Group—Redesigning products to adapt to  changing markets and  needs & trends
• Case study: Visit with Sybase 365 CEO—Organizational redesign in action

• Building on abundance
• Zingerman’s approach to open book management
• Henry Ford Museum approach to recruiting, orienting and retaining engaged employees

• Broaden awareness of variety of online courseware options
• Identify alternatives to traditional textbooks
• Build on work done to date across the Network

• Leading diversity/prejudice reduction workshop: Building capacity through inclusivity

• Leading diversity/prejudice reduction workshop: Building capacity through inclusivity

• Tom Kimmerer, Association for the advancement of sustainability in higher education—Higher education’s role in sustainability
• Visit with Arizona State University Institute for Global sustainability
• Visit with Arizona Public Service, The Nature Conservancy and Phoenix Human Services
• Sharing Network colleges’ sustainability initiatives and examples of alternative courseware

• Using an abundance perspective to develop “organizations of engagement”; leverage capacity by employee empowerment, investing in people; using strategies to support and develop human resource capacity
• Building capacity through people (Dick Alfred)
• Doing things differently (Rich Sheridan, Menlo Innovations)
• Site visits to Borders books; Menlo Innovations, Whole Foods and Zingerman’s Deli—How do thriving organizations approach empowerment?
• Google’s approach to employee empowerment

• Sage Policy Group (Anirban Basu)--Need for leadership in economic development
• Northrop Grumman—working examples of entrepreneurial initiatives
• National Association of Community College Entrepreneurs (Tommy Goodrow)--Exploring opportunities to become more entrepreneurial to lead regional economic development

• SW Airlines approach to:
  • values and culture
  • hiring the right people
  • “On-Boarding” new employees
  • Leadership development & training
  • recruitment/ placement partnership opportunities
• Richland College Baldrige Award winning initiatives
• Creating a culture of high performance and enabling employees to succeed

• Visits to Honda American Headquarters; Ohio Super Computer (Ohio State)
• Understanding generational differences, expectations and needs, organizational philosophy, culture and human resources strategy
• Conversation with CEO of SkyBus—Rethinking an existing industry, personal efficacy as leaders, Zen and the art of success

• Abundance: Learning, Leading and Leveraging (Dick Alfred)
• Laughter in the workplace (Chris Holdwick, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital)
• Network Panel on putting abundance to work (Roy Church, Lorain County CC)
• Building a culture of abundance through strategic human resources (Chris Holdwick)
• Showcasing network strengths

• Developing leaders module presented
• Disney Institute: Leadership excellence & people management

• Technology trends/challenges for higher education (SAS/CISCO)
• North Carolina Bio-Technology collaborative

• Positive Organizational Health—The Abundance Framework (Kim Cameron, UofM School of Business)
• Opportunity Conversations (D.J. Corson, Hawkeye Community College)

• Strategic Thinking module presented
• Employee engagement
• Open book management—The: Great Game of Business (Springfield Remanufacturing Company)
• Tour of Cy-Fair College Design innovations

• The Change imperative (Catherine Lilly, University of Michigan, Change initiatives)    
• Dynamics of a healthy organization—importance of culture and employee empowerment (Chris Holdwick, St. Joseph Mercy Hospital system)
• Process management (Stan Jensen)