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Find Your Fit: City vs. County Careers Monday, October 21 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Are you contemplating
whether your future is in city management or county management? Is it possible
that one path would better satisfy your passions or match your skill set? Learn
about what each has to offer from professionals who have walked both paths. 5 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSPanelist: Timothy Hemstreet, County Administrator, County of Loudoun, Leesburg, VAPanelist: Claudia Lujan, Human Resources Assistant Director, City of El Paso, El Paso, TXModerator: David Street, City Manager, City of District Heights, District Heights, MDPanelist: Hannes Zacharias, Professor of Practice in Local Government , University of Kansas, Lenexa, KS Surviving City Management: The Partners’ Stories Monday, October 21 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Relationship pressures experienced by city managers’
partners are not unusual or uncommon—from the fishbowl environment in which we live
to the 24-hour news cycle that disrupts our homelives. Partners of managers in
both traditional and nontraditional families provide their unique perspectives on
how to keep the relationship thriving. 5
MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Clifton Brady, Manager, Human Resources and Employee Relations, United Airlines, Ventura, CASpeaker: Vincent Briley, Cuyahoga Community College, Cleveland, OHSpeaker: Jessica Lahner, Professor, Carroll University, Waukesha, WIModerator: Alexander McIntyre, City Manager, City of San Bruno, San Bruno, CA Game of Life: Play it Right—Season 8 Monday, October 21 1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Join us for this
interactive and engaging trivia “game show” that will help educate the audience
on maximizing the way you live and save. Subject matter experts in health and
wellness and finance will provide information we all need to know as we work,
play and live the Game of Life. 18 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSPanelist: Jennifer Davis, Client and Customer Engagement Director, Cigna, Bloomfield, CTPanelist: Steven Taylor, Senior Financial Planner, Guided Pathways, MissionSquare Retirement, Washington, DCModerator: Joseph Teague, Managing VP, Field Sales, MissionSquare Retirement, Washington, DC The Success of Failing Monday, October 21 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM Compared with success, failures are rarely talked about.
There is power in failure and lessons that can be transformative for professional
development. Removing the shame of failure can begin to change the culture in
government to one of innovation, learning, and growth. 5
MODERATORS & SPEAKERSModerator: Scott Colby, Assistant Town Manager, Town of Windsor, Windsor, CTPanelist: Nicole Lance, CEO, Lance Strategies, Phoenix, AZPanelist: Tim Moreland, Director of Performance Management and Open Data, City of Chattanooga, Chattanooga, TN Tips and Tricks for Teaching the Profession Monday, October 21 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Do you feel the
calling to teach? Do you want to promote the profession to a new generation of
public management students, whether as a guest lecturer in a college classroom
or as an adjunct or full-time faculty member in a graduate MPA program or a new
online program? If so, join this informal discussion and share your
experiences, exchange ideas, and learn where to find and how to use teaching
resources. 5 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Robert Blair, Professor Emeritus of Public Administration and Urban Studies, University of Nebraska At Omaha, Omaha, NESpeaker: Kimberly Nelson, Professor, University of Chapel Hill - School of Government, Chapel Hill, NC Executive Recruiters Tell All Monday, October 21 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Join a panel of Executive
Recruiters to learn more about what governing bodies are thinking and looking
for now in their next city, county, or town manager. MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Ron Holifield, CEO, Strategic Government Resources, TXModerator: Martha Perego, Arlington, VASpeaker: Catherine Tuck-Parrish, Vice President, Raftelis, Rockville, MDSpeaker: Heidi Voorhees, President, GovHR USA, Northbrook, ILSpeaker: Clark Wurzberger, Senior Vice President, The Mercer Group Inc, Weimar, CA Combat Loneliness, Improve Employee Health, Well-Being, and Productivity Tuesday, October 22 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Loneliness can affect anyone at any point in life and is a
topic that employers should address proactively as it can have a negative
effect on workplace productivity and a person’s health. The workplace can serve
as the foundation for improving vitality and reducing feelings of loneliness
and starts by creating a culture of inclusion. Managers and leaders of
organizations can lead the way by building connections with their employees and
setting a cultural tone of relationship-building and inclusiveness in the
office. Join this session to learn about what Cigna's Loneliness Study
uncovered and steps you can take to combat loneliness in your workplace and
improve your employees’ health, well-being and productivity. 4, 13
MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Sandra Shaklan, Behavioral Clinical Account Manager, Cigna, Bloomfield, CT Could It Be Your Turn? Being in Transition Tuesday, October 22 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM Any manager can be
in transition if things go bad. This brutally honest session will be led
by two managers and family members who survived. Learn the symptoms/red
flags to watch for. How does being terminated affect my family? What did I
do to contribute to the situation? What could I have done differently? 1,5
MODERATORS & SPEAKERSModerator: James Bennett, City Manager, City of Biddeford, Biddeford, MEPanelist: Toni Brown, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CAPanelist: Troy Brown, City Manager, City of Moorpark, Moorpark, CAPanelist: Michele Meade, Deputy Director NJ Division of Local Government Services, State of New Jersey, Morristown, NJ Finding True North in a Polarized World Tuesday, October 22 9:45 AM - 10:45 AM We live in a
disruptive time that presents us with complex issues, identity politics,
fractured communities, and polarized politics. Come explore how personal values
aligned with the profession’s high ethical standards will lead to True North. 1 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Kate Fitzpatrick, Town Manager, Town of Needham, Needham, MASpeaker: William Fraser, City Manager, City of Montpelier, Montpelier, VTSpeaker: Opal Mauldin-Jones, City Manager, City of Lancaster, Lancaster, TXModerator: Martha Perego, Arlington, VA How to Be Family Friendly in the Workplace Tuesday, October 22 9:45 AM - 10:15 AM Jurisdictions that have successfully implemented paid parental leave, on-site childcare, lactation rooms, and other benefits/amenities for parents will present how they were successful, any obstacles, how funded. 3 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Ashley Jacobs, Deputy County Manager, County of Wake, Raleigh, NCSpeaker: Edward Shikada, City Manager, City of Palo Alto, Palo Alto, CAModerator: Maya Williams, Assistant to the City Manager, City of El Cerrito, El Cerrito, CA Lunch and Learn: Managing Your Investments in a Period of Global Transition Tuesday, October 22 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM While political uncertainty doesn’t necessarily translate
into increased market volatility, the unknown effects of recently executed and
impending policy on trade, interest rates (i.e. Federal Reserve leadership),
regulatory relaxation and corporate tax reform have investors looking more
intently at the dimensions of asset allocation within individual portfolios as
well as their defined benefit and defined contribution programs. Please join ICMA-RC’s Chief Investment
Officer and a panel of experts to learn how they view the current investment
landscape and how they are managing portfolios in 2019 and beyond. Lunch will be provided. 5
MODERATORS & SPEAKERSSpeaker: Erin Bigley, Senior Investment Strategist, Alliance Bernstein, Washington, DCSpeaker: Francis Sempill, Head of Client Service, Walter Scott North America, BNY Mellon Securities Corporation, Boston, MAModerator: Wayne Wicker, Senior Vice President & Chief Investment Officer, MissionSquare Retirement, Washington, DC Leading with Love: The Heart of Success Tuesday, October 22 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM In today’s
environment of fear and divisiveness, local government leaders would do well to
replace that fear with a love-based culture. This session provides an overview
of the tenets of Love-Based Leadership and evidence for its multifaceted
organizational success. 1, 5 MODERATORS & SPEAKERSModerator: David Burman, Township Manager, Township of Haverford, Haverford, PAPanelist: Maria Church, Chief Executive Officer, Government Leadership Solutions, Hereford, AZPanelist: Robert Joseph, Director of Planning, Estes Park, COPanelist: Mari Rains, Orlando, FL
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