Explore Tracks Designed for Every Leader
Whether you are a current leader, a future leader, or an emerging leader, the Summit’s session tracks offer opportunities to learn, connect, and grow. From bold ideas and practical tools to resilience and pathways of opportunity, these panels and workshops are designed to strengthen leadership and spark impact across Wisconsin.
Emerging Voices: The Next Generation of Leadership
Explore how rising leaders are reimagining leadership, challenging norms, and setting bold visions for the future.
Intergenerational Power Exchange: Leadership Across Generations
A cross-generational conversation on lessons, tensions, and opportunities for building leadership bridges between younger and older leaders.
Leadership Through Disruption
What does it take to lead through crisis and change? Hear from leaders who have navigated disruption with clarity, care, and boldness.
The Future of Work: AI, Workforce Equity
Explore how artificial intelligence, automation, and changing workforce demands are reshaping leadership, innovation, and opportunity.
Leadership Blueprint: Crafting Your Leadership Identity
Develop a personal leadership identity rooted in values, vision, and authenticity. This session guides participants through self-assessment, storytelling, and practical tools to define leadership purpose and style.
First 100 Days
Strategies for navigating a new leadership role with clarity, credibility, and early wins. Learn how to set priorities, build trust, and align your approach for long-term impact.
Public Speaking & Media Training for Leaders
Learn to communicate with clarity, presence, and purpose in public and media-facing settings. Gain tools for shaping messages, handling interviews, and building confidence across diverse audiences.
Equipped for Impact: Leading Difficult Conversations with Confidence
Gain tools to navigate tension and lead hard conversations with clarity, care, and accountability.
Leadership in Education: K-12 to Higher Ed
Explore the evolving role of leadership in education—from classrooms to college campuses—and the impact on student success and institutional change.
Nonprofit Leadership in the 2020s
Nonprofit leaders share how they are adapting to new challenges while sustaining organizations, strengthening communities, and pursuing long-term impact.
Sustaining Leadership
Practical strategies to maintain energy, avoid burnout, and lead with integrity over time.
Leadership Legacy & Succession
Explore how organizations can prepare future leaders, honor legacy, and create lasting impact through intentional succession planning and knowledge transfer.
Cultivating Healthy Workplaces: Strategies for Fair and Effective Systems
Understanding how organizational systems influence workplace culture and learning how to design for trust, fairness, and effectiveness.
Emotional Intelligence for Leaders
Building skills in self-awareness, empathy, and relationship management to strengthen leadership effectiveness and team dynamics.
Unlocking Capital: Expanding Pathways to Growth
Access to capital remains a critical barrier for many professionals and entrepreneurs—especially those from historically excluded communities.
Economic Mobility: Workforce Leadership to Retain Local Talent
Discover strategies to develop local talent pipelines, retain workforce, and promote upward mobility.
Pathways of Power: Civic Leadership for Systemic Access
Public sector leaders share how they are making institutions more responsive, inclusive, and accessible to the people they serve
Scaling Impact: Leadership Lessons from Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurs share how they’ve grown their ventures and influence while staying invested in the community.
Tracks and schedule are subject to change.