New Learning for Professionals at Any Career Stage
AHEAD is excited to offer a brand-new kind of learning opportunity. Inspired by feedback from members, we are providing an educational experience where you can design your own curriculum. We’re calling this the Ingenuity Forum because it offers ingenuity in both the structure of the event—choosing from 37 individual sessions to match the particular learning needs you have right now—and within the sessions themselves—the way the presenters will share their knowledge.
Choose from two-day, one-day and half-day sessions, taught by top experts in the field and offering depth on a wide variety of topics, all taught interactively. This is unlike any other conference or institute AHEAD has offered before, and you won’t want to miss the opportunity to build your own educational adventure!
Why attend the Ingenuity Forum?
AHEAD’s Ingenuity Forum sessions offer an opportunity to get specialized training on a particular topic, and the interactive nature of the sessions provides opportunities to collaborate with other attendees, so you get to know other professionals and build your network. They are a great way to expand your knowledge! Larger topics are broken down into segments, so attendees can attend just the portions most relevant to their own work, and mix and match topics. For attendees who would like to get specialized training on a variety of topics, we will offer the ability to pick and choose from among many topics.
Tracks, or Not! Your Choice!
For those interested in building a training around particular topics, we are excited to offer several topical “tracks,” though you may select any session and are not at all obligated to stick with any one topic.
To make it easy to identify which sessions fall into the tracks, we have applied the following track labels to sessions:
- Leadership
- Health Science Programs
- ADA/504 Coordinators
- Coaching
- Technology
- Accommodation Determination and Implementation
Career Stages: Suit Your Sessions to Your Experience Level
We have ensured some sessions are geared to newer professionals, while others offer material more suited to professionals who have been in the field longer. We let you know which sessions are best suited for different experience levels by offering the following labels on sessions:
- New/Newer Professionals
- Seasoned Professionals
- Office Leaders, regardless of time in the field
- All Levels
Networking Opportunities are Built In!
AHEAD has heard from our members that you value the opportunities to get to know other attendees. We took that to heart when we built this Forum.
Sunday Evening Social
We invite you to join us when you first arrive in New Orleans for some light hors d'oeuvres and drinks to start off your time together. We hope you will get to know colleagues to not only spend meal breaks with locally while you’re here, but also call on in the future for professional advice and listening.
Sessions Built With Interaction In Mind
You will see when you read the session descriptions that The Ingenuity Forum doesn’t offer “sage on the stage” style sessions full of heavy lecture. Instead, all sessions are created to have different kinds of interaction, allowing attendees to get to know others, build collegial relationships, and leave with a professional network for the future.
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