Institutional Leadership (2 Day Event)

Keynote Speakers Announced:
Mario Moussa and Christine Baker 

The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Lead Your Board, Teachers, and Volunteers

Do you want board members to support your top priorities—or block your every move? Do you want the budgeting process to focus on your school’s financial strength—or set off a counter-productive power struggle? Do you want your teachers to feel empowered and engaged—or grouse about workloads and salaries? To achieve the positive outcomes, you need more than formal authority. You have to sell your ideas.

Using lively stories drawn from politics, business, and his own experience as a consultant and independent school Trustee, Dr. Moussa will share practical insights from years of research into this essential topic.

Former Director of Admission at Milton Academy and best known as an organizer of collaborative efforts and for her comprehensive approach to market research-based decision making and enrollment management strategy development.

This session will focus on the key areas and core challenges of enrollment management and school sustainability. While many schools have rebounded from the “perfect storm” of the fall of 2008 when even the most successful independent schools were forced to address six major factors of confluence impacting their schools sustainability quotient - demographic downturn, shaky economy, sky rocking tuitions, disappearing wealth, increased need for financial aid, and rising debt service/endowment income falling - there remains the need for thoughtful and strategic enrollment planning. Chris Baker will give you a framework with which to consider the essential steps your board can take to sustain healthy enrollment at your school.

Christine Hailer Baker Principal of the Baker Group, and is the editor of an upcoming NAIS book on Enrollment Management in Independent Schools. Chris spent 10 years in college admissions, read more about Christine Baker here.

Explore The Benefits of Attending

The PNAIS Institutional Leadership Conference provides key information to Trustees and Heads, increasing effectiveness and the inspiring you to think about governance in a new light.

Heads of School find this meeting especially valuable when they attend with their board chair or new board members, but Trustees of all levels of experience will benefit from the broad mix of sessions.

This year - no price increase and reduction of overall cost of attendance.

We are thrilled to be holding this year’s conference at the Cedarbrook Lodge, just a few miles south of Seattle. This lovely venue allows us to keep prices steady from 2009, and allows you to benefit from a overall reduction of out of pocket expenses including: free parking, free wireless internet, and a free shuttle from SeaTac Airport.

Breakout sessions will provide opportunities for discussions, workshops and case studies with experts in the field of independent school governance.

Conference Agenda

Saturday October 23, 2010

12:00-1:00pm Registration
1:00pm Welcome
1:15 Keynote Address with Dr. Mario Moussa
2:30-3:45 Breakout Session I
4:00-5:15 Breakout Session II
5:30-7:30 Vendor Reception with heavy Hors d’oeuvres

Sunday October 24, 2010

9:00am Keynote Address with Christine H. Baker
10:45am Breakout Session III
12:00pm Lunch
1:15-2:30pm Breakout Session IV
2:30pm Conference Conclusion

Breakout Sessions Will Address Topics Including:

• Trustee Orientation
• The Board Chair / Head Relationship (Double Session)
• Approaches to Budgeting
• Strategic Financial Planning
• Succession and Leadership Transitions
• Speed-Reading Financial Statements
• Creating a Culture of Philanthropy
• National Trends in Independent Schools
• Enrollment Management
• Communication Strategy
• Accreditation
• Legal and Policy Updates

Click here to download the conference program, including breakout session descriptions and speaker biographies

 

Registration

 Please note that registration is a two-step process. Please 1) register for the program with PNAIS and 2) arrange for accommodations, if needed. See below for more information about making hotel reservations.
 Full Conference Registration 

• Early Bird: $360 Postmarked or payment received by September 10, 2010
• Regular: $425 Postmarked or payment received by October 1, 2010
• Late: $475 Postmarked or payment received after October 1, 2010
• Non-Member: $550

1 Day Registration

• Early Bird: $210 Postmarked or payment received by September 10, 2010
• Regular: $250 Postmarked or payment received by October 1, 2010
• Late: $285 Postmarked or payment received after October 1, 2010
• Non-Member: $295

To receive the early bird discount, your registration must be complete and payment must be postmarked or received by September 17, 2010.

• For registrations completed by mail or online registrations with payment by check, payment must be postmarked by September 17, 2010.
• Online registrations completed by credit card must be completed by 11:59pm on September 17, 2010

• Click here for Online Registration
• Download a mail-in registration form

Accommodations:

The Cedarbrook Lodge has lovely, unpretentious hotel rooms or suites. PNAIS has secured a rate of $145 / night for the 3 nights prior to and after the conference. Guest rooms include: and upgraded continental breakfast, parking, wireless internet access, and unlimited 24-hour snack bar. To make your reservation call: 1-877-515-2176. Please refer to PNAIS when making your reservation by October 1, 2010 to take advantage of the discounted room rate.

To make a reservation online please click here. Enter Group Code: PNAO

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