Finding Your GREAT-ness!
Stone Soup & the Art of Personal Leadership
Paul Wesselmann, Stone Soup Seminars

Are you ready for GREAT-ness? We are kicking off our conference with one of the warmest, most engaging speakers in higher education today. Paul Wesselmann transformed a graduate school research assignment into his life's work: his personal leadership model, G.R.E.A.T. (goal setting, role modeling, esteem building, attitude adjusting, time & stress managing) has helped student affairs practitioners, orientation leaders, and new students around the U.S. focus on specific actions and attitudes that can immediately impact their work, their education and their life.

Paul makes his home in Madison, Wisconsin and in addition to his speaking and training around the U.S. is the founder of The Ripples Project, an experiment in nurturing small waves of kindness. His free weekly email Ripples goes out to over 8,000 subscribers each week. In addition to his past work on three campuses and serving on the management team of a non-profit organization, Paul holds degrees in psychology and higher education and his adventures include having been a camp counselor, lifeguard, radio talk show host, and school mascot. In addition to the keynote, Paul will present the following workshops:

Making Room for Everyone: Challenging Homophobia On Campus and In Yourself (Pre-Conference Program)

Burnout or Boundaries: Creating a Life Beyond Campus

Don't Strangle the Whiners! Tips for Dealing with difficult People

Bonding with Paperwork: Time Management for Busy People

Revving Up the Troops: Artful Motivation and Delegation

Click here for Paul Wesselmann's biography

Awards Luncheon Featured Speaker
Dr. Eleni Katsarou

Dr. Eleni Katsarou is a Clinical Associate Professor at the College of Education at The University of Illinois at Chicago. She is a faculty member of the Curriculum and Instruction department and teaches primarily in the Elementary Education program, both graduate and undergraduate students. Dr. Katsarou is deeply committed to school improvement in the CPS (Chicago Public Schools). As such, she dedicates much of her time to doing in-service work in schools that want to improve their literacy instruction. In addition, she matches all of her student teachers in urban school settings. Her research interest is in the area of second language acquisition and the socio-cultural factors that impact student literacy achievement. We are pleased to have Dr. Katsarou address the NODAC 2004 Conference during the Awards Luncheon.