Class of 2024 + CLN Members - Class of 2024 Welcome Reception
2024-03-09 12:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Grace & Abe's, 14 N Portage St, Westfield, NY, 14787, United States
CLN Members and alumni are welcome to meet & inspire our future leaders. Share your story, mentor and help guide this year’s Class participants.

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Class of 2024 - Design Your Career Compass
2024-03-12 09:00 - 12:00 | Roger Tory Peterson Institute, 311 Curtis St Ext., Jamestown, NY, 14701, United States
In this session, participants will learn the core concepts of design thinking and will have the opportunity to apply those concepts immediately to their own lives. This session will challenge participants to expand their creative thinking and problem solving abilities, invite them to reflect deeply on their own lives and careers, and emerge with distinct tools to face some of the most difficult decisions a person can face. As a result of this session, participants can expect to:

Articulate and apply the elements of design thinking to real-world problems
Create an inventory of their own NACE competencies and strengths
Understand the importance of a career self-concept, and see their own RIASEC codes
Define and apply personal values to life and career decisions

Annie’s bio: Annie is a Career Services specialist with over 15 years of experience in secondary and higher education. Her areas of expertise lie in career readiness, career exploration, professional development, and core competency training. She is particularly passionate about helping individuals learn the skills of problem solving and navigating lifelong career journeys. Annie’s career training services are available to anyone who would like to connect.

Class of 2024 - Developing the Leader Within You
2024-04-10 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
Location: TBD

Fascilitator – Cindy Aronson
Cindy Aronson loves her job and is on a mission to inspire others to love theirs too. As the owner and principal of Cindy Aronson Training, she develops and leads programs that ignite the power of people, fueling workplace engagement, pride, leadership impact, and personal and professional success.
For over 25 years, she has had the honor and privilege to be a partner in talent development with a variety of outstanding colleges and universities, businesses and organizations and thousands of talented professionals. Her ‘Developing Leadership Excellence’ program has been attended by hundreds of business leaders and chosen by educational institutions and numerous companies/organizations to strengthen the talent on their teams.
Cindy holds a degree in communication from the State University of New York College at Fredonia. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, the Association for Talent Development, and serves on the boards of the National Comedy Center and the Northwest Arena. She resides in beautiful Bemus Point, New York.

Class of 2024 - DEI / Ethics
2024-05-14 09:00 - 12:00 | NY
Location: TBD
Fascilitated By: CLN Program Committee featuring select community panel.

Class of 2024 - Introduction to Leaders In Action
2024-06-12 13:00 - 16:00 | Audubon Community Nature Center, 1600 Riverside Rd., Jamestown, United States
Fascilitated by: CLN Program Committee & Victoria Eckert

Class of 2024 - Difficult Conversations
2024-07-09 09:00 - 12:00 | NY
Location: TBD
Navigating conflict is a fact of life, but how can we think about conflict positively? In this course you will learn your conflict style, strategies for improving your communication during conflict, and destructive behaviors that interfere with positive conflict management. Participants will be asked to engage in thoughtful discussions, reflective self-analysis, and conflict simulations.

About Your Instructor/Facilitator: Simone Sellstrom is the director of the Communication program at Jamestown Community College. In this role she teaches a variety of communication and media courses including Interpersonal Communication, a course focused on communication issues that frequently occur in relationships. Originally from Oklahoma, she graduated from the University of Arkansas with a Masters in Communication and a concentration in Strategic Communication.

Class of 2024 - Leaders In Action
2024-09-10 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
Location: TBD
Fascilitated By: CLN Program Development Committee

Class of 2024 - Creative Leadership
2024-10-09 09:00 - 12:00 | NY
Location: TBD
Creativity is widely regarded as one of the most essential, useful, and sought-after skills for leaders and for employees, in general. Creative leadership involves being open to new ideas, being flexible in thought and action, taking risks, finding playfulness in innovation, and working through uncertainty while moving forward with confidence. This session will focus on learning ways to build creative mindsets, skill sets, and tool sets through an assessment model, individual exercises, and group activities. A bonus benefit will be having fun and working together in a climate of support, celebration, and connection!

Fascilitated by Jane Fischer
Jane is a Creative Change Facilitator, offering training, facilitation, and coaching for personal and organizational development. Her passion is to help individuals, teams, and organizations generate brighter ideas, embrace creative and collaborative solutions, and to do so through positive mindsets.
Jane has over 25 years of experience in organizing and delivering educational and professional development workshops, training curriculum, process facilitation, and group experience activities. Much of this experience covers her two decades in health education leadership, with 15 of these years as a peer health education administrator and trainer at the college level.
Jane holds a Master of Arts in Health Arts and Sciences from Goddard College, and a Graduate Certificate of Advanced Study in Creativity and Change Leadership from the International Center for Studies in Creativity at SUNY Buffalo State. She also serves as a Creativity Trainer for the Creative Education Foundation.
Jane also builds her approach around the principles and practices of improvisation. She has been a professional improv comedy performer for over 20 years, currently with ComedySportz Buffalo. She was a co-founder and performer with The Unexpected Guests Improv Comedy Group in Jamestown from 2002-2017. She has lived in Chautauqua County for most of her life, and currently resides in Fredonia with her husband and a very spoiled cat.

Class of 2024 - Capstone & Graduation
2024-11-12 13:00 - 16:00 | NY
Location: TBD by Class of 2024

Class of 2024 & CLN Members - CLN Annual Meeting
2024-12-09 11:30 - 13:00 | NY
Location: TBD
