Business Women's Forum 2015: 03/22 Defining Leadership in Your Own Voice

While gaining wisdom about leadership is essential and nurturing mentor/mentee relationships can reveal significant nuggets of advice, ultimately you have to embrace your own version of leadership.  It?s both tempting and limiting to believe that certain styles, knowledge sets, or experiences are essential to leadership success. This session invites you critique the constructions of leadership that are out there, consider ways to personalize essential leadership elements, and identify ways to weave these ideas into a leadership style that is authentically you.  

About the presenter:
Dr. Deneece G. Huftalin was named the eighth President of Salt Lake Community College in September 2014 and feels privileged to have served SLCC students, faculty, and staff for more than two decades. In her short tenure as President, Dr. Huftalin has launched a Collegewide strategic planning cycle which has produced a new vision, mission, values, and strategic goals for the College.  She is leading efforts to strengthen completion rates, transfer pathways, workforce responsiveness, and equity in student access and completion.  Dr. Huftalin has also encouraged an environment of innovation and has challenged staff and faculty to ?Deep Six? redundant or archaic processes, embrace emerging pedagogies such as Open Educational Resources (OER) and Competency Based Education (CBE), and to situate SLCC as a model for transformative and inclusive education.
 
Dr. Huftalin has taught in the Education, Leadership, and Policy program at the University of Utah and serves on a number of community boards and councils including the Governor?s Education Excellence Commission, the Salt Lake Chamber, EDCUtah, YWCA Utah, Utah Campus Compact, United Way of Salt Lake, Sandy Area Chamber, and Women's Leadership Institute. She is also the current presidential sponsor for the Utah Women in Higher Education Network (UWHEN).  Nationally, Dr. Huftalin serves as a Commissioner for the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU) and as a member CEO for RC-2020, Inc.  
 
Prior to her current role, Dr. Huftalin served as the Interim President, Vice President of Student Services, Dean of Students, and Director of Academic and Career Advising. Before joining SLCC in 1992, Dr. Huftalin held positions at William Rainey Harper College, Northwestern University, the University of Utah, Stanford University, and the Institute for Shipboard Education.
 
Dr. Huftalin and her husband Tim are the parents of two sons, Max and Eli. Dr. Huftalin earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Utah, a master's degree from UCLA, and a doctorate in Education, Leadership, and Policy from the University of Utah.

Parking Instructions:
If you are driving, please park in the west side of the parking lot at the Chamber building. When you arrive, proceed to the left/west (monthly and validated parking) area and take a ticket and pass through the yellow parking gate. We?ll provide validations upstairs at the front desk. Please do not enter on the right/east side and park in the two rows closest to the building or you will have to pay in advance and we will not be able to validate your parking. 

Recent changes in our building have affected parking availability. In order to find parking and not be late for the luncheon we encourage attendees to arrive as early as they can. For other parking options visit http://www.parkingslc.com/

We encourage you to take Trax and help keep our air clean. Please use the Library Square stop on the red line to arrive at the Salt Lake Chamber offices.