Header






9th Annual West Virginia
Leadership Conference



Agenda


Leadership Lessons
with Doris Kearns Goodwin


Wednesday, April 27th

 

11:00 a.m. Registration and Check-In
   
12:00 noon Opening Luncheon
Welcome
   
12:30 - 1:15 p.m.

Special Remarks
Dr. James P. Clements
President, West Virginia University

   
1:15 p.m. Break
   
1:30 - 3:15 p.m. "Team of Rivals: The Leadership Lessons From Abraham Lincoln"
Doris Kearns Goodwin
   
3:15 p.m. Break
   
3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

"Follow-Up Panel Discussion"

 

FACILITATOR

Thomas A. Heywood
Managing Partner, Bowles Rice McDavid Graff & Love LLP

 

Panelists:

  • Hoppy Kercheval
    West Virginia Radio Corporation
  • Dr. Robert O. Rupp
    West Virginia Wesleyan College
  • Beth Vorhees
    West Virginia Public Broadcasting
   
5:00 - 7:00 p.m. WVU Leadership Students' Exhibit Competition
   
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Networking Reception

   
7:00 p.m. Dinner
   
7:50 p.m. Introduction of David C. and Susan Hardesty, Jr. and Robert R. Simpson, Jr. Scholarship Recipients
   
8:00 - 8:30 p.m. Special Remarks
Oliver Luck
Director of Athletics, West Virginia University
   

 

Thursday, April 28th

 

7:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast
   
8:15 - 9:15 a.m.

"Leadership in Difficult Times"

 

FACILITATOR

Susan S. Brewer
CEO, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC

 

Panelists:

  • Richard M. Adams, Jr.
    United Bank
  • Andrew Jordon
    Pritchard Mining Company
  • David Ramsey
    CAMC Health System, Inc. and CAMC, Inc.
   
9:15 a.m.

Break

   
9:30 - 10:15 a.m. Special Remarks
The Honorable Joe Manchin
United States Senator
   
10:15 a.m. Break
   
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.

"Leadership Ethics"

 

FACILITATOR

J. Holmes Morrison
Maier Foundation, Inc.


Panelists:

  • Forest J. Bowman
    Jackson Kelly Professor of Law Emeritus
  • Joshua Dower, M.D.
    WVU Department of Medicine & Pediatrics
  • Maryanne Reed, Dean
    WVU P.I. Reed School of Journalism
  • Dr. Edwin H. Welch
    University of Charleston
   
11:45 a.m. Lunch
   
12:20 p.m.

Introduction of WVU Leadership Students' Exhibit Competition Winners

   
12:30 - 1:00 p.m. Special Remarks
The Honorable Earl Ray Tomblin
Governor of West Virginia
   
1:00 p.m. Conference Adjourns
   

 

Footer The State Journal Maier Foundation Bowles Rice Attorneys Dixon Hughes Certified Public Accountants Steptoe and Johnson Attorneys at Law West Virginia University