LM Summer 2024

LEVERAGING LEADERSHIP ANNUAL CONFERENCE 60 th Racing Toward Excellence

Sept. 25–27, 2024 BOS Center and the President Abraham Lincoln Springfield— A DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE Sponsor an Event, Meal or Speaker and be seen by over 650 Illinois superintendents and school administrators attending our conference over three days. Click here to learn more! For School Service Members Marlon Styles served as an educational leader for 17 years and was super intendent of Middletown City Schools in Ohio from 2017–2023. Under his leadership, the district was awarded the ISTE Distinguished District Award in 2019. He is a member of the District Administration Leadership Institute’s Advisory Board. He was also named K–12 Dive’s 2020 Superintendent of the Year in 2020 for his advocacy and leadership to close equity gaps on a national stage. Registration To Open Early August! FEATURED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Meagan Johnson is a generational expert, speaker and author. While working for companies like Quaker Oats, Kraft Foods and Xerox in the 1990s, she began to hear negative comments about Gen Xers. Fascinated by the behav ior, she set out to debunk generational myths. Her research gave birth to thousands of presentations and the best-selling book, Generations Inc., From Boomers To Linksters: Managing the Friction Between Generations at Work. Joe Sanfelippo recently retired after serving 12 years as superintendent of the Fall Creek School District in Fall Creek in Wisconsin. The district was named an Innovative District by the International Center for Leadership in Education twice during that time. In addition, Joe was selected as 1 of 117 Future Ready Superintendents and 1 of 50 Superintendents as a Personalized Learning Leader by the US Department of Education. Education Dive named Joe their National Superintendent of the Year in 2019.