Society of American Foresters

2022 District 4 Leadership Academy

The 2022 District 4 Leadership Academy will be an 8-week virtual event held Thursday afternoons from February 3rdthrough April 7th, 2022. The Academy is designed specifically to help foresters and natural resource professionals build their leadership capacity in professional and personal roles, and add value to their career paths. This Academy will be limited to 30 people so act fast!

We are now accepting applications to this Academy! Please visit our website and click on the application link to apply: https://leadershipnature.mykajabi.com/District!V2022LeadershipAcademy

Agenda

• Feb. 3 -What is leadership?
• Feb. 10 -Leadership Styles
• Feb. 17 -Communication
• Mar. 3 -Motivation
• Mar. 10 -Teams & Teamwork
• Mar. 24 -Decision Making
• Mar. 31 -Trust & Conflict
• Apr. 7 -Learning to Lead

* Sessions held Thursdays from 2:30 -4:00 pm MST (with an optional additional half hour)

Registration

• $50 for SAF members
• $100 for non-members
• $30 for SAF students
• $75 for student non-members
• Seating limited to 30
• Participants will be chosen based on application responses, with preference given to current SAF members

Features

• World-class leadership training geared specifically towards foresters
• Pre-academy orientation video
• Pre-academy kickoff and participant introduction meeting
• Three personality and leadership tendency assessments
• Guest presentations from renowned leaders within SAF and across the forestry profession
• Optional self-paced videos about how SAF works
• Follow-up action learning project
• Follow-up mentorship opportunity
• Available CFEs totaling ~24 hours

The District 4Leadership Academy and pre-academy events are made possible by a Foresters Fund grant, contributions from individual State Societies, and Leadership Nature.

Meet the lead instructor and find out more by watching this short video:

https://youtu.be/3IsPuabJbS4

Submit questions to district4saf@gmail.com