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Planning for retirement involves financial, professional, and personal considerations that can benefit from early reflection and informed decision-making. This session will offer practical guidance from HR along with faculty-informed perspectives to help participants better understand retirement planning within the academic environment. Attendees will gain insight into key considerations, available resources,...

Join Alison Fragale, PhD, organizational psychologist, UNC Kenan-Flagler Professor, and bestselling author of Likeable Badass, for a fireside chat on power, status, influence, negotiation, and how people can gain recognition, respect, and opportunities. Her academic research on status, power, negotiation, and influence have been published in her field’s top academic journals as...

In today’s fast-paced professional environment, it is easy for tasks, deadlines, and commitments to become overwhelming. This practical, interactive session introduces faculty and staff to Microsoft Planner and Microsoft To Do as simple, flexible tools for organizing work, tracking priorities, and improving follow-through and overall efficiency.   Participants will learn how to create...

In this session, Keith Ruskin, MD, will share his unconventional professional journey as an anesthesiologist whose career has been shaped by deep engagement with aerospace and aviation. Drawing on experiences outside traditional academic medicine, Dr. Ruskin will illustrate how curiosity, humility, and a willingness to continuously learn can open unexpected...

Adaptive Leadership: an evidence-based model for leadership through paradigm shifts. This session presents the framework, strategies for implementing this style of leadership, examples, and survival strategies for leaders who are navigating serious paradigm changes. We will also explore the kinds of paradigm shifts facing academic medical centers in the current...

This workshop introduces participants to the Relational Leadership framework and explores relational feedback as a means to build psychological safety and leadership skills. It emphasizes the importance of relational communication, and awareness of one’s own and others’ perspectives, cultural lenses, and lived experience. This workshop consists of one online session of 2...

A Night to Write is a virtual professional development series designed to support faculty and postdoctoral scholars through protected writing time and engaging in a supportive writing community. Each session will offer a specific scholarly writing theme, individual writing time with opportunities for discussion and feedback from experienced facilitators and...

  Speaker: Jill Jameson, MBA Associate Dean for IT Chief Information Officer for the School of Medicine  

Speaker: Misty Good, MD, MS Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division Chief of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine and Co-Director of Carolina Child Health Scholars Program  

Join us for a relaxed and engaging conversation with Samantha Meltzer-Brody, MD, MPH, Executive Dean, UNC SOM and Chief Academic Officer, UNC Health. The coffee talk series is designed to foster meaningful, down-to-earth conversations for staff, faculty, and executive leadership. During this session you will have the chance to ask...