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Virtual Leadership Forum Sessions

 

Tuesday, April 27

 

8:00 am - 9:00 am CT

Leadership Breakfast Warm Up

Bring your coffee, test your connection and microphone, chat with your colleagues during this informal session.

9:00 am - 11:00 am CT

Becoming An Impactful Leader Through Courageous Leadership

with Charles Stokes

ACHE Keynote Presentation

A safety and security team that understands the importance of leadership can make a significant difference in healthcare facilities to maintain a safe and secure environment. This 90-minute session will help healthcare security, safety and emergency management professionals become impactful leaders, advancing roles with techniques and real-world examples on how to transform your organization and career.

 

Leading in complex times, takes great skill. Charles Stokes will share what sets leaders apart, and how to take your skills to the next level.

 

Learning Objectives:

· Learn how to build relationships with C-Suite executives

· Explore how to manage up and down

· Use language that will resonate with the C-Suite and advance your team’s needs

· Identify internal advocates for yourself and your team

· Use internal and extremal resources to build your management, leadership and financial skills

11:00 am - Noon CT

ACHE + IAHSS Panel Leadership Discussion

Charles Stokes, Jonathan Westall, Connie Packard, Roy Williams

Noon  – 1:00 pm CT

Open Forum: Live Networking

 

 

Wednesday, April 28

 

Morning Sessions

 

8:00 am - 9:00 am CT

Leadership Breakfast Warm Up

 

9:00 am -10:00 am CT

Security Leadership and Soft Target Issues

With Dr. Jennifer Hesterman

Soft target attacks steadily climbed in number and scale of violence in the last few years, including at health care facilities. Perpetrated by a variety of actors with varying tactics and goals, each attack hits the “reset button.” Leaders must understand the challenge and how to effectively engage - before, during and after a crisis. This fast-paced session will provide an update on the threat and perspective on leading in this demanding and volatile environment.  Dr. Jennifer Hesterman is a retired Air Force colonel and counterterrorism expert. She is Vice President for Watermark Risk Management International and is on the Board of Directors for the International Foundation for Protection Officers and advises the Homeland Security Training Institute at the College of DuPage in Chicago. She also designs and instructs graduate level courses for the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency. She holds a doctoral degree from Benedictine University, and master’s degrees from Johns Hopkins and Air University. She authored Soft Target Hardening: Protecting People from Attack (ASIS Book of the Year,2015) and second edition (ASIS Book of the Year, 2019), Soft Target Crisis Management (2016) and The Terrorist-Criminal Nexus (2013).

10:00 am -11:00 am CT

Best Practices for Securing the C-Suite

With Paul Sarnese and Eric Clay

Your relationship with your CEO and C-Suite team will shape the type of Executive Protection program you develop. Being a trusted confidant of C-Suite leaders gives you a unique position within your organization. Doxxing, stalking, and threats can be the result of a high-profile negative events at your organization. This session will cover some recent cases of threats aimed at business executives, you will hear how securing the C-Suite and developing a relationship in advance is critical to preventing and managing these events, and you will learn ways to approach your C-Suite with a comprehensive plan.

11:00 am – 11:30 CT

Open Forum: Live Q&A with Dr. Jennifer Hesterman

 

11:30 – Noon CT

Open Forum: Live Q&A with Paul Sarnese and Eric Clay

 

Noon  – 1:00 pm CT

BREAK

 

Afternoon Sessions

 

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm CT

Creating and Effectively Leading a Diverse and Inclusive Security Team

With Marilyn Hollier and Dan Yaross

The session will describe how to create a high-performing, very diverse/ inclusive staff that reflects the community they are serving. The presentation will also include recommended tips in how to effectively hire and lead a very diverse staff that may also include employees representing 4-5 different generations. The speakers will explore current and past leadership hurdles in creating a diverse team as well as suggestions in overcoming these challenges. 

2:00 pm – 3:00 pm CT

Hot Topic: Leading Through a Crisis

With Scott MacMillan, Jonathan Acorn, Jennifer Ziccardi-Colson, Ken Burkhard, and Pamela Assid

For well over a year now the world has been battling the most prolific pandemic since the 1918 Spanish Flu, and it is the heroes in healthcare that have been leading the fight. We will talk with four such heroes; leaders in their respective fields who will share their stories, experiences and learnings on what it means to Lead Through a Crisis. This panel will address some of the most fundamental challenges facing any leader in the midst of a crisis; from keeping up team morale to dealing with civil disturbances to maintaining effective leadership qualities to staff retention to general crisis response operations and logistics. This 60-minute panel discussion is an opportunity to gain insight into how a great healthcare leader succeeds in a crisis.  

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm CT

Open Forum: Live Q&A with Marilyn Hollier and Dan Yaross

 

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm CT

Open Forum: Live Q&A with Scott MacMillan, Jonathan Acorn, Jennifer Ziccardi-Colson, Ken Burkhard, and Pamela Assid

 

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm CT

Social Hour, Live Networking