
New! Executive Leadership Summit
Chicago, Illinois
New! Executive Leadership Summit
Wed. March 18 – noon Fri. March 20, 2020
Hyatt Regency O’Hare Airport, Rosemont, IL
Engage with your colleagues, your Summit Facilitator, and LERN’s top professional staff in sharing and discussing the latest and most important issues in continuing education today. For executive leaders in continuing education, and those preparing to become executives.
Agenda items include Executive Briefings followed by group discussion on Working with Central Administration; Recession Planning for C.E., The Latest C.E. Trends, and much more.
$995, includes two luncheons, breaks, and materials. You may also register for the Executive Leadership Institute and earn your CPP-EL designation at no additional charge.
Executive Leadership Summit Facilitator is Joe Miera, head of continuing education at the University of Nevada – Las Vegas.

Agenda
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Optional reception, 6 – 8 pm
The reception will include participants from other LERN events taking place at the same time.
Wednesday, March 18, 2020
Breakfast on your own. If you are staying in the hotel, breakfast in the hotel restaurant is included in your room rate.
8:30 am
- Welcome, Joe Miera, M.P.A., CPP, Vice Provost, Division of Educational Outreach University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- Introductions
- Overview of the Summit Agenda
9 am
- The State of Executive Leadership in Continuing Education, Joe Miera
9:50 – 10:10 am
- Morning Break
10:10 – 11 am
- Discussion: Trends in Continuing Education
11:10 am – 12 noon
- Executive Briefing with Greg Marsello, LERN Senior Vice President for Organizational Development. 15 minute briefing with handout, followed by questions and then Discussion by participants.
12 noon – 1 pm
- Luncheon. Luncheon is compliments of LERN. May be with participants from other LERN events.
1 – 1:30 pm
- Small Group Discussions
1:30 – 2 pm
- Success Stories.
- Top Issues.
2 – 2:15 pm
- Afternoon Break.
2:15 – 3:15 pm
- Invisible Diversity: Learners, Learning Styles and Higher Ed & C.E.
With Julie Coates, LERN Senior Vice President for Information Services.
Briefing with handout, followed by questions and then Discussion by participants.
Complimentary copy of Julie Coates’ new book, Invisible Diversity
3:15 – 4 pm
Thursday, March 19, 2020
8:30 am
- Small Group Discussions
9 am
9:50 – 10:10 am
- Morning Break
10:10 – 11 am
11:10 – 12 noon
12 noon – 1pm
- Luncheon. Luncheon is compliments of LERN. May be with participants from other LERN events.
1 – 1:30 pm
- Small Group Discussions
1:30 – 2 pm
2 – 2:15 pm
- Afternoon Break
2:15 – 3:15 pm
- Vision to Visibility: The 5 Most Critical Issues for C.E. Today
Executive Briefing with William A. Draves, President, LERN
15 minute briefing with handout, followed by questions and then Discussion by participants.
3:15 – 4pm
Friday, March 20, 2020
9 am
- Small Group Discussions
9:30 – 10:10 am
- Voting
10:10 – 11 am
- Executive Learning: The Agenda Moving Forward
There Are Six Easy Ways To Register
Purchase Orders will reserve your place, with payment due at or before the Contract Training Conference. Please fax (888-234-8633) or scan (info@lern.org) your PO and we will email you an invoice.
Reservations must be made by February 24, 2020
The hotel is located near O’Hare Airport with complimentary shuttle service to and from the hotel. Your conference hotel is also located near the CTA or ‘L’ light rail line into downtown Chicago.
To get the LERN attendee discount reference LERN Conferences when booking your hotel room over the phone or use the special link below. Do NOT make your hotel reservation with any national Hyatt reservation system or any other entity.
Phone: (847) 696-1234
Website: Book Hotel Through the LERN Room Block (use this link to get the discounted room rate for attendees)
Rates: Rates include breakfast at hotel. Double, triple and quad rates include breakfast for two.
- Single – $195
- Double – $195
- Triple – $220
- Quad – $245
Reservations must be made by February 24, 2020
No cancelations or refunds after February 24, 2020