University of Miami (FL) Senior Deputy AD Jennifer Strawley and Northwestern Deputy AD/SWA Janna Blais join ADU’s Tai M. Brown at the 2023 NCAA Convention to discuss their approach to values-based leadership, including how today’s young professionals face the unique challenge of working in a social-media-enhanced workplace. Blais speaks to the importance of being transparent as a leader and the necessity of providing young professionals a platform to share their ideas, noting that at times she’s implemented concepts her team has suggested; she also discusses the process her 16-year-old son recently went through in establishing his own core values. Strawley points out that being genuine and authentic is the ultimate way to garner respect, sharing her challenges with insecurity as a young staffer and how she established her own personal value system as she grew into leadership roles.
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