The Journey to Human-Centered Leadership

Facilitated by: Mary Coussons-Read

Friday, April 25
8:00am - 9:00am CST
Credits Available: 1 CE
Instructional Level: Mid-Advanced Career

At the core of this year’s conference is the concept of Human-Centered Leadership (HCL). This presentation begins to define HCL through the lens of a personal journey to first internalizing and then demonstrating key aspects of HCL across a 30+ year career. Starting with discussion of the “traditional” style of organization and self-centered management, leadership, and coaching, the presentation moves into identifying and understanding HCL as a fundamentally different approach to leadership based in models and concepts that address engagement and investment in and by humans within an organization. The presentation tracks the critical and sometimes messy traverse to embracing aspects of resilience, agility, and human-centric leader behaviors in the context of organizational health, broadly defined. The session concludes with an open discussion of the role of confidence and candor tempered with humility and vulnerability in manifesting as an HCL and supporting others in doing so.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe some fundamental tenents of Human-Centered Leadership (HCL)
2. Identify steps they have taken or may take toward embodying HCL
3. Manifest aspects of resilience and agility in their work as and with HCL’s.