Through the #PeopleofYU campaign, York University was able to break through the mold and humanize the brand by highlighting the diversity of their own community. The campaign featured students, faculty, staff, donors, and other community members in a different light, showcasing who they are, emotional and shocking challenges they have faced in their life, and how their journey led them to York. Featured people include: unconventional artists, refugees, scholars, members of minority groups, members of the LGBTQ community, athletes, and many more.

Finding time for your family, work, and leisure time can be challenging in the lives we live in higher education. It’s difficult to do it all. Not only is achieving a healthy work/life balance an attainable goal, but workers and businesses alike see the rewards. In this presentation, practical steps, tips and secrets will be shared that we can all take to loosen the grip that stress has on us and re-establish the balance we need to thrive and be happy.

How do you ensure every student graduates connected, cultivated, and capable for today's workplace? Drew University maneuvered from siloed career development, advancement, and academic offices to a coordinated effort that ensures students, universally, are prepared for post-college success. Learn how they created a program called Launch that benefits their diverse student (and alumnx) population with a network of mentors that every student, regardless of background, can access 24/7; walk through six Launch essential elements that demonstrate how they are integrating all aspects of the student and community experience; and brainstorm ideas for your own institution.

How well does your shop, big or small, help new or newly promoted manages be successful as leaders? Exemplary individual contributors don't always have natural skills as managers. Being promoted doesn't necessarily equate to being prepared to manage. At Seton Hall University, we have implemented intentional, smaller scale, low cost initiatives to strengthen our managers and thereby our entire team.Come and hear what is new at SHU - how we invest in our people, inspire our work, and increase our professionalism through strategic talent management strategy.