Event Title

Pluralistic Leadership - Principles and Promising Practices

Location

4170 City Ave, Phila. PA, Evans Hall, Zedeck Amphitheater

Start Date

5-4-2014 1:30 PM

End Date

5-4-2014 3:00 PM

Description

This leadership excellence session will explore the power and productive potential of diversity –led, aligned, integrated, and reinforced strategies –for personal, partnership, and institutional success. It defines pluralistic leadership (PL) as a healthy inclusion essential, and offers high value strategies and tactics for challenging meritless exclusions, structural divisiveness and inequities, partnering dysfunctions, mass media-scripted distortions, and crippling collusion This presentation builds rapid capacity and comfort to harvest diversity’s problem-solving and positive energy potential. It challenges inclusion charades, cosmetics, tourism, and inertia. It prepares the audience to lead PL change –to promote credible, merit-centric selection and utilization of significant, visible and subtle diversity throughout all institutional levels, arenas, and endeavors. The presenters will use the clinical and empirical literature as well as practice knowledge in this area to inform guidelines for Best Practices.

Educational Objectives: Based on the presentation, participants will be able to:

I. Define diversity, inclusion, collusion, and pluralistic leadership (PL) and important key indicators II. Describe systemic-, collective-, mass media-, and self-mastery PL challenges as well as PL change impediments and opportunities III. Discuss PL best practice models, action accountabilities, impact metrics, and reinforcements IV. Discuss PL systemic and self-mastery principles to promote and sustain more robust inclusion

Target Audience: Doctoral Level Psychologists and Other Mental Health Practitioners Level of Instruction: Basic Number of CE Credits Offered: 1.5 Cost: Free

About the Speakers: A licensed psychologist, Dr. Gordon graduated cum laude from Harvard University; earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan; and completed post-doctoral mass media, group dynamics, and conflict resolution study at the University of Pennsylvania/Annenberg School of Communications.

Dr. Gordon’s career spans 35+ years – as college professor, health and mental health systems manager, psychotherapist, leadership coach, and organizational advisor. His faculty affiliations have included: University of Michigan, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Antioch College, Goddard College, Department of Psychiatry/Thomas Jefferson University, Family Medicine/Medical University of South Carolina, and the Federal Executive Institute. He serves on the Health Promotion Council’s Board of Directors. Dr. Maya Gordon is a specialist in self-concept, identity formation, women’s health/empowerment, and mass media. She is a developmental psychologist, former Temple University and St. Joseph’s University faculty, and Cabrini College Assistant Professor. Dr. Gordon graduated from Spelman College magna cum laude and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. She completed Wellesley College post-doctoral mass media and women’s identity research. Dr. Gordon is married and the mother of 4 children.

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Apr 5th, 1:30 PM Apr 5th, 3:00 PM

Pluralistic Leadership - Principles and Promising Practices

4170 City Ave, Phila. PA, Evans Hall, Zedeck Amphitheater

This leadership excellence session will explore the power and productive potential of diversity –led, aligned, integrated, and reinforced strategies –for personal, partnership, and institutional success. It defines pluralistic leadership (PL) as a healthy inclusion essential, and offers high value strategies and tactics for challenging meritless exclusions, structural divisiveness and inequities, partnering dysfunctions, mass media-scripted distortions, and crippling collusion This presentation builds rapid capacity and comfort to harvest diversity’s problem-solving and positive energy potential. It challenges inclusion charades, cosmetics, tourism, and inertia. It prepares the audience to lead PL change –to promote credible, merit-centric selection and utilization of significant, visible and subtle diversity throughout all institutional levels, arenas, and endeavors. The presenters will use the clinical and empirical literature as well as practice knowledge in this area to inform guidelines for Best Practices.

Educational Objectives: Based on the presentation, participants will be able to:

I. Define diversity, inclusion, collusion, and pluralistic leadership (PL) and important key indicators II. Describe systemic-, collective-, mass media-, and self-mastery PL challenges as well as PL change impediments and opportunities III. Discuss PL best practice models, action accountabilities, impact metrics, and reinforcements IV. Discuss PL systemic and self-mastery principles to promote and sustain more robust inclusion

Target Audience: Doctoral Level Psychologists and Other Mental Health Practitioners Level of Instruction: Basic Number of CE Credits Offered: 1.5 Cost: Free

About the Speakers: A licensed psychologist, Dr. Gordon graduated cum laude from Harvard University; earned his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan; and completed post-doctoral mass media, group dynamics, and conflict resolution study at the University of Pennsylvania/Annenberg School of Communications.

Dr. Gordon’s career spans 35+ years – as college professor, health and mental health systems manager, psychotherapist, leadership coach, and organizational advisor. His faculty affiliations have included: University of Michigan, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, Antioch College, Goddard College, Department of Psychiatry/Thomas Jefferson University, Family Medicine/Medical University of South Carolina, and the Federal Executive Institute. He serves on the Health Promotion Council’s Board of Directors. Dr. Maya Gordon is a specialist in self-concept, identity formation, women’s health/empowerment, and mass media. She is a developmental psychologist, former Temple University and St. Joseph’s University faculty, and Cabrini College Assistant Professor. Dr. Gordon graduated from Spelman College magna cum laude and holds M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Michigan. She completed Wellesley College post-doctoral mass media and women’s identity research. Dr. Gordon is married and the mother of 4 children.