• What it really means to have a leadership mindset
  
• The power of audacity
• The risks and rewards of daring to lead
• How local leaders leverage audacity to achieve their objectives
• How thinking audaciously can help achieve Take Care New York 2012 goals
• Opportunities for leadership development on-the-job
  

It's Content-Rich
This year we challenge up and coming leaders to be audacious and provide audacious leader guidelines and guideposts.  Those who have never been here before, you will learn what it really means to be a leader, what a leader is and isn’t, how to take leadership in stride, and what it takes to be a great leader.  Our ever-entertaining and informative “leadership mindset” expert, Richard Gitlin, as always, comes loaded with brand-new presentations filled with new ideas, insights, and illuminations!  If you enjoyed his presentations in the past, you will be “wowed” by what he will be talking about this year.  The ever-popular Conversations with Audacious Leaders will be, if possible, even more exciting and inspiring than before.  Facilitators at the lunchtime roundtable discussions will suggest reasonable and gently outrageous ideas about when, why, and how to be audacious in a wide variety of situations – many of which you will be able to relate to.  Later in the day, we’ll look at the priorities and goals for “Take Care New York 2012” and see what kind of audacious leadership it is going to take to achieve the goals or to suggest new areas for attention.  Select the public health priority of your choice and come be audacious – as we work to come up with new and creative strategies for achieving important public health goals.  And, as always, at the end of the day, pick up handouts from sessions you weren’t able to attend so you come away with a “taste” of all the audacious leadership opportunities that await you!

It’s Networking-Rich!   Our format includes two solid hours of mid-day structured networking to guarantee you meet everyone you want to connect with. The two turbo-audacious leadership opportunities roundtable discussions give you the chance to speak with experienced leaders about the agony and ecstasy of taking risks…by choice or by necessity.

It is unique.  The conference is unique in its focus on promoting health leadership development to people not yet necessarily identified or self-identified as prospective public health leaders. What we do that’s different is to provide you with what may be the first forum in which you can recognize your leadership abilities, demonstrate the myriad of leadership opportunities available now and in the fast-approaching future, and to encourage you to dare to take on those leadership roles. 

It is inspirational as well as informative..  Throughout the day as you move from session to session, you’ll experience a number of exciting and energizing "Aha!s". Our opening speakers, Audacious Leader panelists, roundtable discussion facilitators, and Strategy Development Session facilitators are remarkable women and men currently leading important health movements and initiative...people whose passion, dedication, commitment, achievements, and AUDACITY will touch, maybe shock, and surely inspire you…to dare to lead!

It is multi-faceted. The conference offers opportunities to hear why it’s so important to dare in today’s climate. You’ll be able to discuss the dynamics of daring; when, where, why and how to take risks and ask others to risk along with you. You’ll hear amazing stories of daring-do…by some very dynamic and some very quiet, unassuming leaders who dare in very different ways. And you’ll review, react, and respond to the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s blueprint for public health over the next two years and identify situations and strategies that call for daring – some of them occurring right there in the strategy development session. The vibrant Call to Action closing should leave you roused and ready to move forward as a leader-to-be or emerging leader.

Its local focus has global applications..  Though the conference highlights local issues and specifically promotes leadership risks in the Greater New York metropolitan area, the information, insights, and inspiration have universal relevance and applicability. We have attracted – and warmly welcome - participants from other regions, states, and countries!

Attendees love it!.  Participants love this conference. Over 20% come back regularly to learn more about leadership, get the support and encouragement to dare to lead, and to see their emerging leader peers. People leave this conference, if they can tear themselves away from the relaxing and reinvigoration seaside reception at 5pm, smiling, hugging, and waving – in addition to having exchanged business cards. And, as promised when they come back, they bring colleagues, co-workers, and, best of all, their supervisors!Top
 
Who Should Attend?

Community and public health specialists with 3-5 years experience who either aspire to become leaders in the near future, have recently become leaders, and/or want to advance as new leaders at the project, organizational/agency, or community level.

We especially encourage new leaders who have recognized the role of risk-taking in leadership and would like to understand more about this aspect of leadership.

Finding Your Audacious Inner Leader
5th Annual Public Health Leadership "Aha!" Conference
for Aspiring, New, and Rising Public & Community Health Leaders
Friday, June 18, 2010 – 9:30am-5:00pm

WHY AUDACITY?
 
Is leadership really leadership if it isn’t audacious?  If public and community health programs and policies are to achieve their goals, every member of the health team at every level needs to recognize and seize leadership opportunities.  As we move forward in our organizations to work to achieve the goals of Take Care New York 2012, we must not only dare to care, we must also dare to dare!  After all, how strong is our commitment to a healthier New York if we’re not willing to take risks for it?  Who among us has not dared in some way – however large or small – to stick their neck out or to venture into uncharted territories? 

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
LAYING THE GROUNDWORK

This conference is based on the conviction that “vision without venture is vapor.”  What public or community health professional doesn’t have a vision worth fighting for?  Who among us can ever be satisfied with taking a “wait and see” approach?  Sure, it‘s nice to sing “Que Sera Sera”  - whatever will be will be - but is that a modus operandi, a philosophy, a way of life for public and community health professionals?  Our planning committee doesn’t think so, and neither do our two keynote speakers: Yvonne Graham, the Brooklyn Deputy Borough President and Richard Gitlin Director of The Gitlin Group.  Their passion for inspired and inspiring leadership is the basis for the astounding growth and appeal of this leadership “Aha!” conference over the past five years.

“CONVERSATIONS WITH AUDACIOUS LEADERS”

Meet and learn from an extraordinary panel of audacious leaders, role models, and mentors!  Participants will hear the exciting leadership development stories of amazing local health leaders who dared…big time!  As diverse as they are, our panelists, have are committed to fulfilling their visions of what it means to have a healthier New York City.  They are extraordinarily caring people with amazing stories, and remarkable resilience and courage.   

First, panelists will tell brief stories about their careers and their development as leaders.  Then the moderator will facilitate a conversation among the panelists.  This “multi-logue” will focus on how audacity has been a major part of their leadership styles and experiences.  They will share with us the rewards and costs they have experienced by being audacious leaders – within their organizations, among their peers and issue stakeholders, and the community-at-large.  The session ends with time for questions, kudos, comments from the audience.

LUNCH TIME ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS: “HOW TO BE AUDACIOUS WHEN…”

Pick up your buffet lunch and head for the table of your choice for the first of two 30-minute roundtables on how to be audacious in very specific circumstances. 

The goal of these roundtables is to stimulate exciting conversations about when and where leadership audacity  might be called for in these situations, what that audacity might look like (after all, audacity/daring is relative!), how to successfully pull off being an audacious leader in this situation and live to talk about it another day.   Facilitators are remarkable local leaders and role models.  They have faced many challenges – with audacity - and are eager to discuss their and your experiences.  These roundtables are open informal discussion and networking opportunity.  Pick a pair and dare to share!

If you don’t see a topic or theme that appeals to you, in the spirit of audacity, we urge you to dare to start your own roundtable discussion.  “Empty” tables will have paper, markers, and stanchions so that you can create your own leadership networking table and see who comes to join!

“Take Care New York 2012” STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT SESSIONS

Now we begin to apply what we’ve been discussing all morning.  This part of the conference is an incredible opportunity to help frame or reframe the future of a healthier New York.  After working with the community to develop new policy for a healthier New York City (2009), it’s time to reconvene community health stakeholders and future leaders and make these lessons actionable.  Together, let us consider, “What can our organizations and communities do to help achieve these goals set for the City’s priority issues?  And what else needs to be done?”

Current and future audacious leaders, and people with audacious leadership mindsets, will come together on the City health priority they care about the most, to brainstorm “out of the box” strategies to achieve the goals related to that priority.  We’re talking about starting with “table rasa” here – a blank slate - on which we can collaboratively carve out creative, innovative, daring strategies to get where we want to go – where we think NYC needs to go.

Participants attend one workshop (either their first and second choice given when they registered).

Facilitators – people passionate about the priority being discussed, and skilled facilitators - will lead participants in a process to:

1. Generate lists of audacious programmatic or policy strategies/tactics to achieve priority area goals
2. Suggest new citywide policies to help achieve the City’s goals
3. Recommend additional public healthy priority areas for the City

Suggestions from each of the sessions will be presented in powerful, pithy, pitches to the leaders of Take Care New York in the first part of the closing plenary session, and reports drawn up and circulated to all participants.

FINDING YOUR AUDACIOUS “NEW ‘NEXT’”
CLOSING  SESSION

So now what?  Where do you go from here in terms of your leadership development and contributions to public and community health?  How do you get to dare to care – dare to dare?  The final presentation by Richard Gitlin and Karen Denard Goldman is a call to action that addresses precisely this challenge.  The goals of this closing are to (1) ignite your “New ‘Next,” (2) motivate you to seize leadership opportunities where and when they occur, and (3)  send you home or to the networking reception with a glow and a “Let’s go!” attitude!

• Distinguished, dynamic, and inspiring public and community health leaders
• Leadership role models
• Leadership development experts 
  

Who Is Involved in Planning the Conference?

What Are The Special Features of the Conference?

Centering and Focusing Warm-Up

• Begin your day by energizing your body and mind, focusing on why you’re here, and envisioning what you will get out of the conference with this early morning warm-up (in the plaza, weather permitting).

Exhibits--Tables available

• Organization, program, and education materials

Leadership Networking Roundtables

• Attend two extended luncheon roundtable discussions about being an audacious leader with leaders who have led audaciously in a variety of situations.

Seaside Networking Social

• 5:00pm-6pm post-conference evening seaside reception.

What Should I Wear and/or Bring?

• Conference dress is casual and comfortable.
• Sneakers are recommended for the optional lunch-time stroll ocean or bay.
  After all, we are on a peninsula surrounded by three bodies of water!
• This is a great networking opportunity… bring business cards.

Can I Get Professional Continuing Education Credits?

Applications for up to 6 hours of professional continuing education credit for certified health education specialists (CHES). Certificates of attendance are available and program objectives are provided in the Day of Program for documentation to other recertification organizations. 
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How Do I Register and What is Included in the Fee?

Conference registration fee includes:

• Admission to all education sessions
• Continuing education credit processing
• Certificate of attendance
• Registration packet including list of participants, leadership development training resources and more!
• Speakers’ handouts
• Light breakfast
• Buffet lunch
• Post conference reception
• Free on-campus parking 

REGISTRATION FEES

What are the Conference Registration Cancellation and Substitution Policies?

If you feel you are an appropriate roundtable facilitator or strategy development session facilitator, or know someone who would be terrific, contact Karen Denard Goldman before April 30. 
 


Can My Organization Become a Conference Supporter?

Absolutely!!  And the best benefit, besides visibility is the discount "member" registration fee for all of your organization’s attendees!

For a list of conference support options and benefits, click here.
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And if I have more questions?

We’d love to hear from you.  Contact the Conference Coordinator: