2025 GOVERN for IMPACT Conference: Full Schedule

4:30pm EDT

Welcome/Introduction and Keynote #1 - Leading Governance with Ethics, Prudence, and Equity in Turbulent Times

Thursday June 19, 2025 4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT

THIS IS A PLACEHOLDER TIME SLOT

Speakers

Samuel Kimeu

Executive Director, Africa's Voices Foundation

Mr. Samuel Kimeu is a governance, human rights and project management expert currently serving as the Executive Director of Africa’s Voices. Here he leads a team of professionals working to provide and develop innovative ways for the peoples voices to shape decisions that affect... Read More →

Thursday June 19, 2025 4:30pm - 5:45pm EDT

Keynote Address

8:45am EDT

Keynote #2 - Reframing Governance and Leadership Challenges with Service Leadership and Systems Thinking

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

8:45am EDT

Keynote #4 - Communication in Governance Leadership

Saturday June 21, 2025 8:45am - 10:05am EDT

TBA

Speakers

Denis Shackel

Denis Shackel, Ph.D., is President of Shackel Associates, a management consultant company, specializing in human resource development. His company, known as The Art of Unlocking Talents has a mission: “to inspire, motivate and challenge individuals and teams to facilitate the... Read More →

Saturday June 21, 2025 8:45am - 10:05am EDT
TBA

Keynote Address