2025 GOVERN for IMPACT Conference: Full Schedule

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8:45am EDT

Keynote #2 - How Service Leadership and Systems Thinking Can Solve Governance and Leadership Challenges

Friday June 20, 2025 8:45am - 9:55am EDT

"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein

The challenges faced by today’s organizations (and by extension, their boards of trustees) are seldom simple in nature. Many of the approaches the past have followed an overly simplistic approach of “see a problem, fix the problem”. Far too often this leads us back into a new set of challenges. By adopting a philosophy of servant leadership (ensuring that those served “grow”), and adding some tools from “systems thinking,” trustees and organizational leaders can take a more sophisticated and elegant approach to emerging issues.

Speakers

Jeff Miller

Consultant, Professor, and Leadership Network Builder in Indianapolis, Indiana, Innovative Leadership Solutions, Inc.

I am a farm boy from central Ohio who is now living in the Indianapolis area. Between those places I've lived: in north Georgia, New Zealand, central Pennsylvania, Maryland, Illinois, western Indiana, and North Dakota. Some would say I can't keep a job.... I'll leave that judgment... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 8:45am - 9:55am EDT

Keynote Address

3:45pm EDT

Keynote #3 - Governance Leadership and the Struggle for Inclusion and Voice

Friday June 20, 2025 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT

What is the new balance within an inclusive, diverse, engaged citizen world?
Listening to youth, involving youth activism, and consequences of governing bodies NOT listening to youth.
Advocacy and activism led by youth. Flint Water Crisis

Moderator: Erin Rankin-Nash

Speakers

Erin Rankin-Nash

FP Law

Mari Copeny

Philanthropist | Activist

Mari is a 16 year old from Flint, Michigan known globally as Little Miss Flint. Born on July 6th, 2007. She first entered the public spotlight when her letter to President Obama about the water crisis prompted him to visit the city and survey the water crisis for himself. That visit... Read More →

Friday June 20, 2025 3:45pm - 5:00pm EDT

Keynote Address