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What’s Next? Women Making a Difference in Their Community

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Have you realized your professional goals? Have you realized your personal and family goals? Do you want to make a difference in your community? Or are you ready to follow your passion? Women who are accomplished in their professional and family lives now face a time when they wonder what’s next.

Focusing on community and civic leadership, this six-week session is designed to help women who want to explore their personal ‘next step.’ This program will help each woman identify her personal passion and develop a plan for leadership in her local community.

At the end of the six-week session each participant will be able to:

  • Articulate personal passion and understand how that can influence the local community.
  • Present one’s credentials by identifying individual skills and abilities.
  • Appreciate the role of public policy in our communities.
  • Express increased confidence in tools of effective communication as leaders.
  • Understand the context of women in leadership.

Class size is limited.  Enroll today to ensure that you secure your place in the program!

Fall 2009 Class Schedule

Students will be asked to pick either the Park or UMKC location allowing for a cohort-group experience. The teachers, curriculum and resources will be identical between the two locations.

  Park UMKC
Week 1: Introduction and Finding Your Passion & What We Know about Women’s Leadership 9/14 9/17
Week 2: Building Your Capacity to Contribute: Democracy and the Unscripted Future & How Public Policy Made 9/21 9/24
Week 3: Women and Power 9/28 10/1
Week 4: Paths to Leadership-Presenting Yourself 10/5 10/8
Week 5: Path to Leadership-Meetings 101 & Presenting your Credentials 10/12 10/15
Week 6: Next Steps Forward 10/19 10/22

Park University: (Classes are held from 5:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. at Park University's Downtown Kansas City Campus Center - 911 Main, 9th Floor)

University of Missouri-Kansas City: (Classes are held from 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. at the University of Missouri-Kansas City - Brookside Room, Administrative Center, 5115 Oak - public parking is across the street)

Core Faculty

Laurie N. DiPadova-Stocks, Ph.D. is Dean of the Hauptmann School for Public Affairs and professor of public administration at Park University. DiPadova-Stocks is a national advocate for the responsibility of higher education to engage with the community for the common good. She serves on the National Council of the American Society for Public Administration, and on the Advisory Committee of One KC Voice. DiPadova-Stocks’ primary research interests are authority, hierarchy, and leadership. She earned her Ph.D. in public administration and policy from the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, State University of New York at Albany. laurie dipadova-stocks photo
Julie Warm, Ph.D. has extensive experience in local government, non-profit management, and higher education administration. She originally trained as a city planner and city manager and served in those capacities in Ohio, Nevada, and Missouri. For the last twenty years, Warm has worked in academe as a community liaison, administrator, and researcher. Dr. Warm’s academic preparation focused on organizational drivers for social entrepreneurship. She is an advocate for people with disabilities and has served on the board for the Developmental Disability Services for Jackson County EITAS, a county-level funding agency. Currently she is a member of the Kansas City Mayor’s Committee for People with Disabilities. juile warm photo
The Hon. Kay Barnes was Kansas City’s first woman mayor. Elected in 1999, she was the 54th Mayor of Kansas City and was re-elected for a second term in 2003. Barnes now serves at Park University’s Hauptmann School for Public Affairs as the founding Director of the Center for Leadership as well as Distinguished Professor for Public Leadership. Kay Barnes exemplifies the best in public service leadership. Engaging in the complex work of building partnerships with other jurisdictions and other sectors of society, she has worked tirelessly to revive a beloved American city. kay barnes photo

Class Details

Students will be asked to pick either the Park and UMKC location allowing for a cohort-group experience. The teachers, curriculum and resources will be identical between the two locations. The cost is $100 for the entire 6-week program and includes all materials and expenses, other than transportation and parking.  A certificate of completion will be awarded.

Registration

Contact

Kecia Harrison at (816) 559-5616 or kecia.harrison@park.edu for information about classes at Park University.

Julie Warm at (816) 235-1409 or sueshearinstitute@umkc.edu for information about classes at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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