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Qualities of leadership exhibited by postgraduate volunteers are increasingly recognized by employers. The goal of this week-long certificate program is to offer tools and resources to help leaders transition from volunteering to employment. The certificate program is open to anyone who has completed a year or more of full-time community service within the past 12 months (since June 2008). The certificate program will be held at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana during the week of August 9-14, 2009. A $25 application fee is required; otherwise the program is free and includes a $250 stipend to help cover travel, lodging and food.
The Leaders In Transition Certificate Program in Career Management is presented by the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business
Master of Nonprofit Administration Program
in collaboration with the Center for Social Concerns, Alumni Association, and The Career Center.
Online Application: Closed
For additional information on the events below, click here.
SUNDAY, August 9
Noon – 3:00 PM Check-In (Sacred Heart Parish Center)
3:00 PM Registration (Coleman-Morse Center)
3:30 PM Welcome
5:00 PM Mass (Log Chapel)
7:00 PM Cookout
MONDAY, August 10
9:00 AM DISC Analysis – Personality Profile
Noon Lunch
1:30 PM Putting Together a Career Plan
Evening FREE
TUESDAY, August 11
9:00 AM Career/Leader Analysis: Discovering Your Career Fit
Noon Lunch
1:30 PM Building Your Personal Brand: Letting Employers Know Who You Are
6:30 PM Dinner
WEDNESDAY, August 12
9:00 AM Job Enjoyment and Satisfaction
Noon Lunch
3:15 PM Professional Presence; Time Management; Networking
Evening FREE
(How to Budget Session Optional)
THURSDAY, August 13
9:00 AM Transferable Skills Across Volunteer And Salaried Positions
Noon Lunch
1:30 PM Keeping Mission Alive - Panel of Former Volunteers; Roundtable Discussion
6:00 PM Mass
7:00 PM Graduation Dinner and Banquet – Speakers: Carolyn Woo (Dean of Mendoza College of Business, University of Notre Dame)
Roger Parent (former South Bend Mayor and four-time Peace Corp volunteer)
FRIDAY, August 14
9:00 AM Job Enjoyment and Satisfaction Results and Analysis
11:30 AM Evaluations and Summary Comments
Noon Lunch and Adjournment
Marc Hardy is the Director of Nonprofit Executive Education at the University of Notre Dame. He is completing his Ph.D. in Philanthropic Studies at the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University and has taught nonprofit leadership and management at IU and Butler University. In 2006 he was voted the “Outstanding Associate Faculty of the Year” at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI. He was also formerly the Associate Director of the Institute for Research and Scholarship at Butler University. He has led several nonprofit organizations and was once the Executive Director of a private operating foundation, the Fourth freedom Forum, which is now the foremost think-tank in the country on the subject of peace through international trade incentives and economic sanctions.
Marc has served as a board member of several nonprofit organizations, including a term as President of the National Speakers Association of Indiana. An actor, director and playwright, he is the Past President of the Indiana Theatre Association and a board member of his Alumni Association. He is a co-author of two books, “Only the Best on Customer Service,” and “Only the Best on Leadership” as well as several articles on management and leadership. Voted one of the top three speakers in the country during the “World Championship of Public Speaking,” he has spoken to more than four hundred groups in the U.S., Canada, Costa Rica, Puerto Rico, Mexico and the Caribbean. He has given over one hundred radio and television interviews, hosted his own morning radio show, and co-hosted a live public television interview show.
Marc Hardy
Director of Nonprofit Executive Education
MNA Program
University of Notre Dame
340 Mendoza College of Business
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: mhardy@nd.edu
Phone: 574-631-1087
Michael Hebbeler serves as the Director of Student Leadership and Senior Transitions. He oversees the service activities undertaken by student groups and residence halls, encouraging the development of leadership skills and cultivating a sense of social responsibility, efficacy and vocation throughout the undergraduates’ college experience. He also works closely with senior-level students, facilitating the integration of social responsibility into postgraduate service and/or career choices.
Michael pursued an M.A. in theological studies at the University of Dayton, where he also studied as an undergraduate. After college, he served in the Jesuit Volunteer Corps as an advocate for homeless families at New Life Community in Cleveland, OH. He is currently in the revision stages of his master’s thesis, exploring how a story can inform and shape a truthful life—namely, how characters in The Brothers Karamazov help Dorothy Day articulate her own role in the world as vocation—that is, called by God.
Michael Hebbeler
124 Center for Social Concerns
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Email: hebbeler.2@nd.edu
Phone: (574) 631-5779
