Keynote Speaker: KAY M. McCLENNEY Kay McClenney is Director of the Community College Survey of Student Engagement and a senior lecturer in the Community College Leadership Program (CCLP) at The University of Texas at Austin. Also within the CCLP, she is senior consultant to the UT work on the Lumina Foundation’s Achieving the Dream initiative, part of the leadership team for the Ford Foundation’s national Community College Bridges to Opportunity Initiative and director of the MetLife Foundation’s national student retention project. She previously served for 10 years as Vice President and chief operating officer at the Education Commission of the States. Dr. McClenney has served as a consultant to education institutions, state higher education systems, state government, and professional associations in 47 states and internationally. In addition, she served for nine years as a community college educator, during which she was a faculty member, system administrator, and interim CEO. A frequent keynote speaker, Dr. McClenney has also authored numerous publications on education issues, strategic planning, accountability, and assessment. She currently serves on the National Advisory Boards for the National Survey of Student Engagement at Indiana University and the College and Career Transitions Initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Education and managed by the League for Innovation. She earned her Ph.D. in educational administration from the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas at Austin, and she has been named a Distinguished Graduate of that program. Her previous degrees include a B.A. from Trinity University and an M.A. in Psychology from Texas Christian University. Kay served as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) and the Executive Board of the American Association of Women in Community Colleges (AAWCC). She received the 2002 PBS O’Banion Prize for contributions to teaching and learning in America.
		Speaker: Michael Shadow Michael Shadow is an internationally acknowledged trainer/coach in persuasive communication. He heads the Seattle-based firm of Shadow and Associates, which specializes in public speaking and media preparation for public and private sector leaders. In addition to his private coaching, Michael has designed and facilitated over 500 major seminars for executives and public officials. His clients include environmental activists, judges and attorneys, educators, lobbyists, and political and business leaders in Europe, Africa, South America, Canada and the United States. Michael is an adjunct professor in Seattle University’s Institute of Public Service (IPS) and in the Executive Master of Not-for Profit Leadership program (MNPL). In IPS he teaches Oral Communication for Public Sector Administrators and in MNPL he teaches the seminar in Persuasive Communication. In the Evans School of Public Affairs, Michael facilitates a ten-hour skills workshop in oral communication and teaches a summer quarter class in Political Communication. Michael’s courses at Seattle University and the University of Washington consistently receive high positive ratings by students. His work outside of academia receives high praise with an occasional rhetorical flourish. The Seattle Times has called Michael “polished and articulate “the sultan of suave . . .the godfather of glib . . . the oracle of oration,” and the “image meister,” who is “one of the most sought after communication coaches in the country.” The Wall Street Journal calls Michael “the internationally noted speech consultant . . . a spellbinding speaker” who can “nail his audience to their seats with both his style and his message.” The Vancouver Sun (BC) says that he “is reported to give the best pep-talk this side of a superbowl locker room” and the Seattle Weekly voted Michael the ‘best political consultant” for 1998. In 1997 Michael Shadow received the Ned Behnke Leadership Award for exceptional courage and leadership in the fight against HIV/AIDS. From 1989 to 1996, Michael chaired the organizing committee of the annual Northwest AIDS Walk—guiding the walk as it grew from an event raising $300,000 to one which raised over $1.4 million—making it one of the largest single-day fundraisers in the Northwest. Michael is a past chair of the Group Health Community Foundation’s Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees of Seattle-King County Crimestoppers. He has served on the boards of Children’s Home Society of Washington and United Cerebral Palsy of Snohomish and King Counties.
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