Leading With Heart

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As administrators and leaders we face many challenges, one of which is developing the knowledge and skills of our teams. It is critical to our success as leaders of leaders that we not only focus on job descriptions and position guides, but shift focus to what gets the job done, relationships and “Leading with Heart”.

Participants in “Leading with Heart in Times of Cardiac Arrest” will contrast characteristics of leaders and managers, study the rules of being human and what hurts motivation, reinforce how to think with your heart, discuss the value of leading with Head, Heart and Hands, compare IQ, (intelligence quotient) EQ (emotional quotient) and SQ (spirit quotient), discover your leadership voice and how to take your ego out of the driver’s seat to attain the ultimate goal of developing spirited, “switched on” teams.

Attendees will learn Christy’s favorite research-based tools and original activities and have the opportunity to share their resources and strategies for developing effective teams that lead with heart and encourage the heart in others. 

About the presenter

Dr. Christy Chambers has been a Special Education Director/Superintendent of three Illinois special education joint agreements of multiple school districts over the past 19 years. From 2002-June 2008, Dr. Chambers served as the Superintendent of the Special Education District of McHenry County, a large, growing joint agreement in Northern Illinois serving 18 school districts. Having just completed her 2-year term as the national President of the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) on June 30th, Christy continues to serve on the CASE Executive Board as Immediate Past President.

Christy is the CASE 2008 Harrie Selznick Leadership Award recipient and was named the Illinois Alliance of Administrators of Special Education Larry Vuillemot Leadership Award recipient in 2007.

Increasing the capacity of local school districts to ensure improved outcomes for students has been a major focus of Christy’s career. She has been a frequent speaker on ‘Leading with Heart” and was awarded an Illinois grant to develop an administrator academy for credit that is now available from the Illinois State Board of Education. Christy now works with school districts and their administrative teams in developing effective, collaborative leadership teams that lead with heart.