International Excellence Symposium
Mark your calendars for Saturday, April 12, 2025, and join us for an inspiring one-day event designed to equip international students for success at Wake Forest University! The International Excellence Symposium is a new initiative focused on fostering development, leadership, and cultural connections for our international student community. This inaugural conference will provide essential skills and insights to help you thrive at Wake Forest and beyond whether youre navigating academic life, building professional networks, or exploring cultural connections. International students are an integral part of our campus community, bringing valuable perspectives that enhance the learning environment for everyone. This symposium offers a dedicated space to support your success and recognize the important contributions you make to campus life. Dont miss this opportunity to: Connect with fellow international students from around the world. Gain valuable insights to enhance your academic and professional journey. Celebrate the cultures and global perspectives that enrich our campus and the world beyond. Together, lets build a brighter future and create lasting connections that transcend borders. While this event is created for international students, domestic students interested in global perspectives and cultural exchange are welcome to attend. Come ready to learn, engage, and build lasting connections! We cant wait to see you there!
Deacon Dialogue- Dinner & Dialogue: Building a Sustainable & Just Future
Dinner & Dialogue: Building a Sustainable & Just Future Sustainability is about more than just protecting the planetits about justice. How can we create a future where everyone has access to clean air, safe water, and healthy communities? What role do we play in shaping policies, systems, and everyday practices that support both people and the environment? In honor of Earth Month, join us for a meaningful conversation over dinner as we explore the connections between environmental, social, and economic sustainability. Whether youre passionate about climate action, community well-being, or just curious to learn more, this is a space to share ideas, hear different perspectives, and consider how we can all contribute to a more just and sustainable world. A plant forward dinner will be provided! This event is free and open to all WFU community members.
Executive Education - Leading People Who Are Different From You
In todays global economy, organizations are continuously becoming more diverse. This broadening diversification of organization members includes cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, age, gender, and sexual orientation. Thus, it is imperative people managers understand how to effectively lead individuals who are different from them. Leaders who can bring an array of diverse individuals together and form a cohesive team aligned on common goals, purpose, and values will gain a competitive advantage. This 1-day program provides participants with the knowledge and tools to understand and effectively lead people who are different from them. Participants also gain insights into how to shape the teams or organizations culture to create an environment that is authentic and brings out the best in everyone. During this workshop, participants will immediately apply insight and tools in developing a personal leadership plan resulting in: Understanding the importance of emotional intelligence in leading others who are differentThe ability to use social perception to accurately access others while reducing potential biasesUnderstanding how to reduce prejudice in teamsThe ability to earn the trust of and apply various leadership styles to effectively lead people who are different from youUnderstanding the nature of the various areas of diversity: culture, gender, sexual orientation, and age Deadline to register: May 29, 2025
Executive Education - Leveraging a Growth Mindset for Personal, Team, and Organizational Success
Fostering Agility, Innovation, and Performance for Lasting Impact Our view of the skills and capabilities we possess has a tremendous impact on our performance, happiness, and ability to learn. By believing in our potential for personal and professional growth, and pursuing each through communication, collaboration, innovation, and openly addressing challenges and stumbling blocks, we create new opportunities to grow and develop. This one-day workshop will focus on the principles of growth mindset, using the research of Carol Dweck and her colleagues as a foundation. This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well. We will focus on your own development of a growth mindset as well as ways to influence your workplace and team to adopt this way of thinking. The program will be highly interactive, focusing not only on understanding growth mindset and related concepts, but on exercises and discussions to actively develop these skillsets. You will apply program learnings to your real-world environment in consultation with other like-minded participants, as well as develop a personal action plan to take you forward. Deadline for registration: May 8, 2025
2025 Student Impact Awards
Join the Office of Civic & Community Engagement, Office of Fraternity and Sorority Engagement, and Office of Student Engagement, as we come together to celebrate the outstanding achievements of student leaders, organizations, and initiatives that have made a lasting impact on both our campus and greater Winston-Salem community. This evening of recognition will honor the creativity, dedication, and leadership that embody the Pro Humanitate spirit. Dress: Business Casual Attire.
