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Jennifer Fox provides vision and leadership as the Senior Program Officer II on the Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellowship Program. This fellowship provides access to a tailored entrepreneurial leadership curriculum, professional placements with a U.S. business, and networking opportunities to 280 business and social entrepreneurs from 37 countries in Canada, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Jennifer manages strategic partnerships for the program, oversees the curriculum design and delivery, communications and impact measurement, and alumni activities.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-fox-989ab7150/

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Jennifer Fox - Deputy Project Director - IREX | LinkedIn

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The following questions may be explored during this panel discussion:

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The following questions may be explored during this panel discussion:

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What is the role of leadership development teachers, coaches, and program managers in supporting the well-being and resilience of leaders?

What specific strategies can leadership development practitioners use to foster self-care and resilience among emerging leaders?

How can self-care be incorporated in leadership development programming for youth and young adults?

What are we learning from emerging leaders about trauma, its effect on individuals, their perception of `self-care,` and the barriers to accessing it across different cultural and socio-economic contexts?

What does self-care look like in virtual and in-person environments?

What does self-care look like around the world? How is it currently being modeled and practiced by leaders?

How can we assess whether individuals are successfully accessing the self-care they need, and that they are supporting the same in their local communities?

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Leslie Miles manages the Community Solutions Program within IREX’s Leadership Practice. In this role, Leslie works closely with the U.S. Department of State to deliver a transformative leadership development experience for 120 mid-career professional fellows annually. The Community Solutions network includes over 600 alumni who have improved the lives of over 300,000 people in their home countries through their community development work.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliestevenmiles/

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This panel session (50 minutes) will follow the outline below:

Welcome + Intros (10 mins)

Panel Discussion (30 mins)

Q&A; Sharing of Perspective and resources (5 mins)

Close (5 mins)

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Luis Quijano is a Senior Program Officer for the Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) Program. In this role, he provides leadership for programmatic and curricular planning, budgetary oversight, monitoring and evaluation, and participant emergency management for the Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) Program. Each year, CEE engages approximately 130 emerging civil society changemakers, ages 20-27, and equips them with the expertise, skills, and resources to develop multisector approaches and build healthy and engaged communities in over 100 countries.

(1) Luis Quijano (He/ Him/ His) | LinkedIn

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Over the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic, racial injustice, political divisiveness, climate disasters, and numerous other issues have challenged leaders of companies, organizations, and movements. In many cases, leaders grappled with advancing their vision, mission, and objectives while pivoting to address overlapping crises. Leaders on the frontlines of solving these global challenges are often experiencing trauma themselves while concurrently working to address crises in the communities they belong to and serve.1 There is growing evidence that in order for these leaders to remain resilient and lead sustainable social change, inner well-being is an essential prerequisite.
IREX’s Community Solutions Program (CSP), Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellows Program, and the Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) Program, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), are reinvesting in self-care, resiliency, and inclusion as they prepare emerging leaders with the critical leadership skills to drive sustainable change through fellowship programs that develop fellows’ leadership and technical skills.

During this panel discussion, we will share skills and values assessment tools, which measures soft skills development such as resilience and emotional intelligence, as well as how program staff support the development and application of these skills through intentional curriculum and modeling. In addition, IREX program managers will share how IREX is teaching self-care and community care through a holistic leadership development module in the Community Solutions Program that includes a resilience planning tool.

Finally, IREX staff will challenge Western misconceptions of self-care as personal or as something that is equally available to all and share examples of how social change leaders across the globe are approaching self-care as collective work, where social ties mitigate the harm of trauma. Program managers will share early insights on how IREX plans to promote self-care in a fun, youth-centric, interactive way through the new Community Engagement Exchange (CEE) Program.