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Leadership Where You Stand: A Virtual Leadership Series
Leadership Where You Stand is a short, high-impact virtual series designed for faculty and staff who want space to reflect, connect, and grow as leaders in the roles they already hold. Through facilitated conversation and guided small-group work, participants explore what it means to lead with clarity, integrity, and purpose, without relying on formal authority or title.
The series meets for five one-hour Zoom sessions from 12:00–1:00 p.m. (bring-your-lunch welcome). Each session introduces a core leadership theme, followed by structured breakout discussions and full-group reflection that connect leadership ideas directly to participants’ lived experiences and professional contexts.
Session Topics, Outcomes, and Dates
Leading from Values
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/Oj4PwENATEmAVz-9L8UIogMarch 4 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Participants will clarify the personal and professional values that guide their leadership decisions and explore how those values show up in everyday choices.
- Speaker: Valerie Wilkins, Director of Alumni Admission Engagement & Inclusion Initiatives
Self-Awareness as Leadership
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/hMGJZKbYQsyQTHDb-UYAjgMarch 11 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Participants will examine how self-awareness, strengths, and blind spots shape their leadership presence, relationships, and impact.
- Participants may elect to purchase and complete a CliftonStrengths assessment to received a personalized report in advance of this session
- Speaker: Sharon Fanto M.B.A. ’15, Managing Partner, Sharon Fanto TLC, LLC Transitional Leadership Coaching
Purpose, Boundaries, and Sustainability
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/7ZewBHBeTn2zKRQxofgSKQApril 1 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Participants will reflect on how to lead with purpose while setting boundaries that support effectiveness, well-being, and long-term sustainability.
Leading in Complex Systems
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/S7W8ufX8SKeEzl6VZe7wIQApril 8 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
Participants will develop greater comfort navigating ambiguity, competing priorities, and complex systems where leadership requires adaptability rather than simple solutions.
- Speaker: Fran Engoron ’70, Managing Director of Golden Seeds, LLP
Influence, Power and Relationship
Zoom link: https://cwm.zoom.us/meeting/register/2H_DK-PPTzy0EqgtAdIQSQ
April 15 | 12:00–1:00 p.m.
- Participants will explore how leadership operates through relationships, influence, and informal power, particularly when authority is shared or unclear.
- Speaker: Inga Carboni, W. Brooks George Associate Professor of Business at William & Mary
Leadership Where You Stand is designed to complement, not replicate, the Exploring Leadership program. While Exploring Leadership offers a deeper, cohort-based experience over time, this virtual series provides a focused, accessible entry point into core leadership concepts through reflection and dialogue. It is especially well-suited for those who applied to Exploring Leadership but were unable to be accommodated this cycle, while remaining open and valuable to anyone across the university, including those currently participating in or who have completed Exploring Leadership in the past.