KACM Winter Conference 2020

The KACM Winter Conference offered attendees an opportunity to hear from content experts and practitioners around various topics that directly impact city/county management. Sessions offered opportunities for attendees to expand knowledge, skills and abilities.

Conference Schedule

• Keynote: Celebrate the Power of Better Together | Steve Dickie, Executive Director of The CharacterWorks Group and Character Coach for the Wichita State University Men's Basketball Team 
  • Steve's presentation will make you smile, challenge your perspective and inspire you to new ways of doing things. You'll appreciate his keen sense of humor and ability to weave practical insight into leadership principles that impact both the workplace and everyday living.
• Closing General Session: Improv Can Save the World | William Coleman, head of faculty at Northfield School of the Liberal Arts, where he teaches literature, writing, drama and Latin

  • Improv can save the world. The learned rules and sensibilities that animate good improvised scenes are the same ones that animate the workings of a constructive community. The rules of improvisation foster problem solving, team/relationship building, idea-generation, and idea synthesis. Improvisers inhabit a space where “yes and” keeps the work of living in common; keeps everyone listening; keeps conversation exploratory rather than gladiatorial; in such a space, patterns of meaning are joyfully sought and honest “mistakes” considered precious gifts.

2019 Winter Conference Information 

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