Heads & Trustees Week 2025
January 27 – 30, 2025, 9:00 AM – 10:30 AM (Virtual & Recorded)
Gather your Board and join your colleagues for the 2025 VAIS Heads & Trustees Week. This Virtual Program features daily doses of learning throughout the week, including an engaging Keynote, practical sessions for you and your team, and fast-paced concurrent sessions with industry experts.
- Explore global, federal, and state laws that shape the way schools approach, implement, and manage AI.
- Develop and diversify your Alumni fundraising focus and approach.
- Consider how to review and revise your by-laws and critical governance documents.
- Evaluate how best practices for small school governance actually apply to all schools.
Here is the daily focus:
| MON | TUES | WEDS | THURS | FRI |
| Keynote: Watch Your Step: Leadership & Governance Lessons | Small School Governance is Good Governance for ALL! | Enhancing Board Effectiveness Through Governance Documents | Assess and Mitigate Your Risks from Artificial Intelligence | Moving the Needle on Alumni Giving and Engagement |
| Sponsored by RCM&D | Sponsored by ViCom | Sponsored by ConnectOne | Sponsored by 9ine | Sponsored by CCS Fundraising |
KEYNOTE: Dr. Megan Mann, Founder, The Approach Group
Watch Your Step: Leadership and Governance Lessons from Five Transformative Years
Adaptability has become the cornerstone of effective leadership in independent schools. Over the past five years, school leaders have navigated public health crises; cultural challenges; intensified scrutiny from families, governments, and media; rapid advancements in AI; and an increasing wave of community-driven litigation, all while addressing the ongoing complexities of managing and leading diverse communities. In this keynote, Megan Mann—an experienced independent school leadership partner, VAIS member-school parent, alum, and trustee—will reflect on key leadership lessons learned during this time of profound change. Join your fellow heads of schools and trustees for an engaging conversation that explores these lessons and provides actionable insights to help your school thrive. A Q&A session will follow to deepen the dialogue.
REGISTRATION:
| Who? | Administrative Fee: |
| VAIS Members | $225 |
REGISTRATION CLOSES JANUARY 17
Register only ONE person from your school who will distribute all the details and access for the program.
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