2020

Schedule

8:30 - 8:35am ( South Korea Time) | Opening Address

A welcome from the Seoul of a Leader team

8:35 - 9:50 | Managing Challenging Conversations for Leadership

Bob Bordone is an internationally-recognized expert, author, speaker, and teacher in negotiation, conflict resolution, mediation, and facilitation. Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard Law School and the Founder and Principal of The Cambridge Negotiation Institute, he served on the full-time faculty at Harvard Law School for more than twenty years as the Thaddeus R. Beal Clinical Professor of Law, Director, and Founder of the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program before launching his consulting, advisory, speaking, and training practice.

In this session, participants will be introduced to skills and tools that will empower them to lean into their most challenging conversations with skill, authenticity, and openness. Avoidance and aggression are typical ways that people handle difficult relationship moments. But excellence in leadership invites us to embrace these challenging conversations with an open heart but also with skill to assert our perspective in ways that maximize the chance that others can appreciate our viewpoint. In this session, participants will learn why some conversations are more challenging than others and will be introduced to strategies for how to initiate and handle these conversations with skill, grace, and aplomb.

10:00 - 10:45 | Diversity in Leadership: Becoming an Anti-Racist Leader

Dr. Josephine Kim is a Lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has worked with multicultural populations through individual, group, and family counseling and has taught students of all ages in varied educational contexts, including private and public language schools and private and public colleges and universities. Kim has provided professional consultation and expertise on multicultural, mental health, career development, and educational issues to various media sources in Asia and in the U.S.

Racism (not race) is a social determinant of health, and in societies that privileges whiteness, racist ideas and practices are considered the norm in media, culture, and institutions. For significant and sustained change to occur, leaders must undergo a "radical reorientation of our consciousness" to develop an anti-racist lens, one that commits to making intentional, daily decisions to promote consistent and equitable choices. Because in the absence of an antiracist lens, leaders perpetuate white supremacy in practices and policies, and it reverberates down to all aspects of a system.

11:00 - 11:45 | Leading in a Time of Crisis: Supporting Mental Wellness in Self and Others

Dr. Doug Walker has worked with the international school community for fourteen of his last twenty-three years of practice as a clinical psychologist. He functions as an Affiliated Consultant for the Council of International Schools (CIS), is a member of the International Task Force on Child Protection and contributes to the efforts of The Centre for Missing and Exploited Children (ICMEC) as a member of their Rapid Response Team.

Confident leadership in the time of crisis is crucial for the survival of organizations facing difficult and uncertain times. Although some factors in response and recovery to crisis are out of a leader’s control, there are ways to manage uncertainty using five basic elements known to support immediate and long-term “resilience”. How leaders communicate, conduct themselves and manage their mental wellness during times of risk and crisis can have a significant impact on how their organization reacts and responds which in turn impacts the overall long-term health and wellness of a community. It is critical to that leadership understand that communication, in and of itself, is an effective mental wellness intervention. Also managing one’s one mental wellness, and the way they conduct themselves will also influence whether their leadership is strengthened or diminished throughout a communities’ response and recovery to the large-scale impact of COVID-19. This talk will equip participants to:

Understand the five empirically supported elements supporting mental wellness in large scale disasters.
Learn how to apply these elements in their communication with their community
Begin to apply the elements into their own self-care plans
Discuss topics presented with other participants in attendance