Self Restoration: Under the Hood Facilitated by Bill Sommers and featuring author Stan Slap Monday, February 12, 2024 2 - 5 pm CST | Zoom CEUs will be issued | No fee to attend for MASA members!
The stress and pressure on educational leaders, teachers, and students are not going away. The same is true for business organizations. What is needed for these three independent but inexorably linked cultures is to build them to be resilient. In turn, this means they must be self-restorative. Only this will allow the culture of educators and employees to attend to their purpose of serving the culture of students while embracing the strategic and environmental changes required to do it. These are culture issues, requiring an accurate understanding of how a culture gains energy, decides to give or withhold trust, and communicates especially amongst itself.
About our presenters Stan Slap is a New York Times bestselling author and a world-renowned thought leader about organizational culture. He has pioneered many firsts in thinking about how cultures really work and how to get yours to really work for you. He is also the CEO of SLAP, the global culture consulting company. For over 25 years, in 44 countries SLAP solutions have influenced billions of dollars in performance improvement for many of the world's most successful, demanding companies. Stan's thinking is provocative and profound. Buckle up. We're going off-road.
William A. Sommers, Ph.D. of Austin, Texas, continues to be a learner, teacher, principal, author, leadership coach, and consultant. After 35 years as a principal, he has come out of retirement multiple times to turnaround schools. Bill blends the best ideas from leading educators and innovative business practices to apply to leadership in schools. He was on the Board of Trustees for five years and President for the National Staff Development Council now called Learning Forward. In addition to being a principal in high schools and middle schools, he has also been a Senior Fellow for the Urban Leadership Academy at the University of Minnesota. Bill also has served as full-time faculty and as an adjunct faculty member at several universities. He has also been a program director for an adolescent chemical dependency treatment center and served on the board of a halfway house for 20 years. Bill has authored and co-authored many books.