PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS

The following is a sample of the sessions that will be presented at APPA 2007 to help prepare you for the future in educational facilities management.

Sustainable Strategies for Success

Sustainability efforts take into consideration the cultivation of the entire campus environment.  These sessions will examine trends in sustainable practices and guidance on how to implement them on your campus, including a focus on short-term actions as well as long-term planning.

• Understand and Make Energy Sources Work for You – Oil, Gas, Nuclear & Coal 
• Organizations for Sustainable Future
  
• Designing & Implementing Business Continuity
• Performing a Successful Energy Audit

Planning for a Better Tomorrow

Transform your thought process and hone your management methods to build a stronger workforce.  Understanding the challenges of motivating and collaborating with Generation X and the Millennial generation are vital to the creation of a productive campus workforce and succession planning for our organizations.  Learn approaches to deal with the work ethics and priorities of the newest generations.

• Now to 2015 – What Kind of Leaders Are We Fostering?
• Succession Planning for a Stronger Tomorrow
• Intergenerational Conflict Resolution
• Recruiting Practices for Generation X & Millennial Generation

SPECIAL PROGRAM

Featured Speakers

Ray Kurzweil is an internationally recognized expert, inventor, and author in the area of artificial intelligence. He was the principal developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition, the first print-to-speech reading machine for the blind, the first CCD flat-bed scanner, the first text-to-speech synthesizer, the first music synthesizer capable of recreating the grand piano and other orchestral instruments, and the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech recognition tool. A member of the National Inventors Hall of Fame and recipient of the 1999 National Medal of Technology, Ray's books include The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines,  Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever,  and The Singularity is Near, When Humans Transcend Biology.

Susan Annunzio is a strategic advisor and leading management consultant for top global business leaders ready to rethink and retool their companies. As President and CEO of The Center for High Performance (CfHP), Susan is a recognized expert on developing and maintaining peak performance. She is the author of: Contagious Success: Spreading High Performance Throughout Your Organization; Evolutionary Leadership: Dynamic Ways to Make Your Corporate Culture Fast and Flexible; and eLeadership: Proven Techniques for Creating an Environment of Speed and Flexibility in the Digital Economy.

Simon T. Bailey is a speaker, coach, author and expert in releasing human potential. With over two decades of experience in leadership, sales and customer service, today he helps people find their passion, take action, improve their lives and make their organizations more productive. Bailey is the founder of the Imagination Institute, Inc., an organization dedicated to building the world’s most valuable resource—its people. The author of two books, Bailey’s writings are intended to change lives. His latest, Release Your Brillance, focuses readers on reshaping their lives from the inside out. The earlier Simon Says Dream: Live a Passionate Life helps people discover their strengths and passion while redefining wealth.

Chris Novak is the founder of The Summit Team, where he focuses on motivational speaking, leadership training, and executive coaching. As the author of Conquering Adversity, Novak’s presentations introduce audiences to six strategies – affirmation, expectation, communication, locomotion, collaboration and celebration – that form the foundation for moving forward with purpose and passion in the face of even extreme adversity.  He is also the author of 4 Circles of Good Business (Core Concepts Publishing) and has written more than 20 articles on business and history for publications that include Newsweek, HR Magazine, Smithsonian’s Air & Space and many others. Novak’s background includes experience as director of human resources for Cornell University’s campus life division.