McDONOUGH LEADERSHIP CENTER MARIETTA COLLEGE MARIETTA, OHIO APRIL 11-12, 2014 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014 11:00 11:50 a.m. Pick up Registration Packet (McDonough Center, First Floor) 12:00 1:30 p.m. Keynote Opening Luncheon (Great Room, Andrews Hall) The World Pac Paper Leadership Lecture Series 2:00 2:50 p.m. Session I (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) She-Mids: Delving into Gender Division in the Military MIDN 2/C Carly Leary and MIDN 2/C Emily Buzzard, US Naval Academy Session II (McDonough Center, Room 208) The H Factor: Humility and Good Leadership TBA; Matthew Sowcik (Faculty Adviser), Wilkes University
3:00 3:50 p.m. Session III (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) The Sex and Shade of Leadership: Women of Color and Creating a Seat at the Table Tyler Barbarin, Jepson School of Leadership, University of Richmond Session IV (McDonough Center, Room 208) Leadership in Practice: The Leadership Capstone at Birmingham-Southern College Lauren Delashaw, Mary-Kate Groark, Cody Lewis, Birmingham-Southern College 4:00 4:50 p.m. Leader Dialogue (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Facilitated by Prof. Ben Ebenhack, Associated Professor of Petroleum Engineering, Marietta College Karl Johnson, Vice President Business Development and Operations, PetroNeft Resources (a business dedicated to active exploration and development of oil resources in Russia) Johnson has 30 years of experience in the petroleum industry and was with Marathon for over 27 years. He started with Marathon as a reservoir/production engineer and has worked primarily on international projects. In 1991 he coordinated the preparation of a feasibility study for the development of a field in Western Siberia. In 1992, he led the economic analysis of the Sakhalin II Project during the feasibility study, and later became part of the negotiating team that negotiated the first Production Sharing Agreement in Russia. Johnson was then seconded to Sakhalin Energy Investment Company and held positions of Approvals Manager in Moscow, and Russian Content Manager in Sakhalin. After Marathon left the Sakhalin II Project, he headed up Marathon s Moscow office as VP of Business Development. Johnson has a BS degree in Petroleum Engineering from Marietta College and recently completed an Executive MBA degree from Rice University. 2
4:00 5:30 p.m. Leadership Development Workshop (McDonough Center Gallery, Third Floor) Heifetz s Adaptive Leadership Krista Henry (facilitator), Kelsea Shultz, Bobby Payne, Western Kentucky University The workshop is based upon the teachings from Ronald Heifetz s Leadership Without Easy Answers. Participants will be provided with a unique opportunity to get multiple perspectives from both a teacher s viewpoint and a student s viewpoint regarding Adaptive Leadership. The workshop will begin with a brief overview of Adaptive Leadership, including its history, basic principles, and most commonly used teaching methods. Following the overview, participants will engage in an integrative activity, which will highlight general concepts related to Adaptive Leadership. More specifically, participants will be assigned a specific role in a given group. The activity will create an environment in which participants must use both individual aspects of their own leadership as well as teamwork to accomplish the given task. At the conclusion of the activity, participants will reflect on their own leadership behaviors, the behaviors exhibited by others in their respective group, and potential reasons for the group s level of productivity. 5:00 5:50 p.m. Session V (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Leadership Challenges in the Oil Industry Internship Reflections TBA, Robert Chase (Faculty Adviser), Marietta College SATURDAY, APRIL 12, 2014 9:00 9:50 a.m. Session VI (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Communication Capstones through the Lens of Leadership Cody Clemens, Abbie Gedon, Tiesha Anderson, Marietta College Session VII (McDonough Center, Room 208) Best Practices for Leadership Experiential Capstone Courses John Baker, Western Kentucky University 3
10:00 10:50 a.m. Session VII (McDonough Center Gallery, Third Floor) Roundtable Discussion: The Millennials and Current Events Facilitators: New York Times Leadership Fellows, Marietta College Session VIII (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Roundtable Discussion: The Use of The New York Times in the Classroom Facilitator: Robert McManus, Marietta College 11:00 11:50 a.m. Leadership Master Class (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Leadership in Context: Culture, Structure, and the Questions Leaders Ask Michael Harvey, Chair, Department of Business Management, Washington College, Maryland 12:00 1:30 p.m. Keynote Luncheon (Andrews Hall, Great Room) Women s Political Participation in Guatemala Keynote Speaker: Margarita Alonzo, the 2014 Andi Parhamovich Fellow, the National Democratic Institute in Washington, D.C. Alonzo is a political party activist, professor at Del Valle de Guatemala University and a patent examiner in the biotechnology division of the Ministry of Economy in Guatemala. She has been working as a patent examiner for the Intellectual Property Register at the Ministry of Economy since 2007. Prior to this, she was an Intellectual Property Advisor to the Guatemalan Vice-Minister of Investment and Competence and the Latin American Coordinator for the Ibero-American Network of Intellectual Property Experts at the CEDDET Foundation in Spain. In 2012, Alonzo decided to become involved in politics and joined the Transparency, Order, Development, Opportunities and Security (TODOS) political party as a member of the National Executive Committee in the National Assembly. Since 2013, Alonzo has served as the National Secretary of Science and 4
Technology of the party, developing entrepreneurship programs that foster information access and social media networking for small businesses. The TODOS party s platform is focused on promoting the empowerment and economic independence of women, community leaders and youth, as well as promoting food security for women and children. Alonzo graduated magna cum laude with a master s in international relations from Francisco Marroquin University and cum laude from Del Valle de Guatemala University (UVG) with a bachelor of science in biochemistry and microbiology. She is the first woman to be elected student body president at UVG and is the founder of the university s Students in Free Enterprise chapter. 2:00 2:50 p.m. Session IX (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Leadership Learning: A Case Study on Influences of a Leadership Training Program on the Practices of one Group of Urban School Superintendents Sarah Valentine Chace, Marian University Session X (McDonough Center, Room 208) Ethics and Socially Responsible Leadership R. Kelly Cameron, Northeastern University 3:00 3:50 p.m. Session XI (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) Leadership Challenges in Online Course Evaluations Jessi-Marie Taitague, Matthew Dyson, Bernard BJ Minter, Travis Murphy, Bill Watt (Faculty Adviser), Methodist University Session XII (McDonough Center, Room 208) Research Presentations McDonough Leadership Capstone TBA, Robert McManus (Faculty Adviser), Marietta College 4:00 4:50 p.m. Leader Dialogue (McDonough Center, Evans Case Room) TBA 5
5:00 5:50 p.m. Poster Presentations (McDonough Center, First Floor) Presenters: Lindsay Hudson, Jepson School of Leadership Studies, University of Richmond ( Gender and Race-Based Biases in Health Care Provider-Patient Interactions ) Additional Presenters to be scheduled from Marietta College (TBA) 6:00 7:30 p.m. Keynote Closing Dinner (Great Room, Andrews Hall) Women in Leadership: A Business Perspective Keynote Speaker: Beatrice Selotlegeng, Director of the Cardinal Health Junior Executive Business Program at Ohio University s College of Business Selotlegeng has extensive experience in Aviation Management culminating in her appointment as the Acting Chief Executive of Air Botswana, the national airline of the Republic of Botswana. Selotlegeng also held the position of Airline Advisor responsible for providing strategic direction to both the organization and the Board of Directors. Ms. Selotlegeng is also the recipient of the prestigious Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow Sapphire Award in recognition of volunteer work and service to the community in Botswana and beyond. She holds an Executive MBA degree from Ohio University and an undergraduate degree in business from Purdue University. 6