PwC Fireside Chat: Paul Griggs US Senior Partner & John Currie WFU Athletic Director

PwC is excited to invite you to an exclusive fireside chat featuring two distinguished leaders: Paul Griggs: A Wake Forest alumnus and Senior Partner at PwC US, Paul brings extensive experience in corporate leadership and innovation. John Currie: Serving as Wake Forest’s Athletic Director, John offers a unique perspective on leadership within collegiate athletics. In this dynamic conversation, they will delve into: Leadership Strategies: Learn how to lead effectively in both corporate and athletic settings.Innovative Adaptation: Discover the role of innovation in navigating and embracing change in today’s fast-paced world.By attending, you’ll gain valuable insights and practical advice to excel in your personal and professional life. Register to attend on Tuesday, April 1 from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm in Farrell Hall, Broyhill Auditorium. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!

Wakeville 2025

Wakeville is an interdisciplinary festival celebrating sustainability and the arts. The event will bring together students, faculty, and organizations across campus for a day honoring the liberal arts. https://wakethearts.wfu.edu/wakeville-2025/

Maya Angelou Garden Party 2025

The Maya Angelou Garden Party is an annual event hosted in Bailey Park to honor Dr. Maya Angelou by celebrating community, storytelling, and art. Hosted by the Wake Downtown Student Ambassadors in partnership with Wake Downtown and ZSR Library each year, this event is free and open to the Wake Forest and broader Winston-Salem community. It includes poetry reading and spoken word performances on display to honor Dr. Angelous literary legacy. Food, music, and lawn games are also part of the celebration. This year’s event will include a new addition, with a hands-on art activity. Click here to see photos and content from previous years. Use this sign up form to reserve a few minutes to read poetry (whether original or that of a favorite artist), to share a story, or to perform spoken art. Sign up ASAP to guarantee your spot!: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd7pjIVmsczeEsYT54x80SRVPH5ixo0BonQ9u5_DWtOKshX_A/viewform?usp=dialog

Executive Education – Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation

From Preparation to Execution: Build Essential Skills for Effective, Value-Driven Negotiations. Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation is a one-day session designed to introduce you to the ABCs of negotiation and how to build a strong foundation of how to think about, prepare for, and execute negotiations in a variety of contexts (e.g., client negotiations). Through this session, you will gain greater understanding into the five fundamental questions you should ask before every negotiation to enhance your negotiating effectiveness. Additionally, you will explore different negotiating approaches, assess your own negotiation style, and learn how it may influence your negotiated outcomes. Finally, you will gain practice negotiating in both two-party and multi-party negotiations, much like the ones you might encounter with clients, coworkers, and/or supervisors. Through these experiences, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to negotiate both assertively and collaboratively in order to create greater value-adding agreements. Deadline for registration: April 22, 2025 Register Now

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

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