Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

12:30 pm – 6:00 pm • NLC Pre-Conference (in-person only)

Building our Leadership Networks and Skills: An Opportunity for Leadership Institute Alumni to Connect and Grow

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many field leaders have yearned for connection during one of the most difficult times our field has faced. This session is a great opportunity to engage and collaborate with others and to gain skills and strategies that can help us stay connected in the future.

This interactive pre-session is open to anyone who will be attending the 2022 CQL Conference: Lightbulb Moments in person. The session will include a series of short presentations, exercises, small and larger group discussions, and a networking lunch where participants will get to engage and connect with other like-minded leaders. Attendees will explore skills to connect and bring people together and to build their own connections, networks, and leverage leadership opportunities in their organizations and systems. All attendees will leave the pre-session with new connections and actionable steps to enhance connections in their role and within their organization.

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm • Attendee Pre-Registration

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm • Exhibitor Setup

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Registration

• Grand Foyer

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Exhibiting & Breakfast

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Enjoy breakfast while visiting with our exhibitors and sponsors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer.

8:45 am – 9:00 am • Welcome Address

• Grand Ballroom

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Keynote Presentation

Supporting Us To Live Our Lives in Our Own Way

• Max Barrows
• Grand Ballroom

We as people with disabilities clearly say that we want to live our lives in our own way. Our support providers must consider all the different parts of who we are that make up our identities: Gender, race, class, sexual orientation, physical capabilities, and mental ability.

Having more than one identity can be empowering, but also can be a challenge. All of these different parts that make us who we are intersect to make up a person’s unique experiences. No one should say they cannot help us because we are too complicated. We count on you to help us overcome challenges.

We also need our provider organizations to guide us to feel proud of who we are, because by joining together to celebrate our identities, we can strengthen our voices and make everyone’s lives better.

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Breakout Sessions

11:15 am – 11:30 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Lunch (on your own)

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Breakout Sessions

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm • Breakout Sessions

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Keynote Presentation

The Resilience of Self-Leadership

• Diane Sieg RN, CYT, CSP
• Grand Ballroom

Resilience has become such an overused term, but the skills and tools remain a critical element to manage exhaustion, burnout, and disillusionment.

Self-Leadership goes deeper than self-care because it determines all the decisions we make every day to support our overall well-being, in other words, our resilience. This highly interactive program will give you tools you can use in the moment to practice self-leadership and take back to your colleagues and staff as well.

• • Understand the meaning of Self-Leadership and how it empowers you to build and sustain your resilience
  • Experience Self-Leadership live with guided CPR practices (Compassion, Presence, and Rest and Recovery)
  • Gain follow-up support and accountability with a FREE digital 7-Day Self-Leadership Campaign

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Registration

• Grand Foyer

8:00 am – 8:45 am • Exhibiting & Breakfast

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Enjoy breakfast while visiting with our exhibitors and sponsors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer.

8:45 am – 9:00 am • Welcome Address

• Grand Ballroom

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Keynote Presentation

Promoting Disability Rights Through Storytelling

• Mia Ives-Rublee
• Grand Ballroom

Storytelling is a fundamental tool used by humans to teach and connect. Mia provides participants the opportunity to learn how to use storytelling to promote disability rights and policy. In the presentation, Mia will share her own story and how it has informed her organizing practices. She will share the fundamentals of good storytelling and discuss how participants can use their own stories to promote disability rights as well as other areas they are passionate about.

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Breakout Sessions

11:15 am – 11:30 am • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

11:30 am – 1:15 pm • Lunch (provided) & Awards of Excellence

• Grand Ballroom

1:15 pm – 1:30 pm • Exhibitor Break

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm • Breakout Sessions

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm • Exhibitor Break (exhibiting teardown)

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

Please join our sponsors and exhibitors in La Sirena and the Grand Foyer to learn about their products, resources, tools, services, and other offerings.

2:45 pm – 3:45 pm • Breakout Sessions

3:45 pm – 4:00 pm • Break

• Grand Foyer

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm • Keynote Presentation

Supported Routines – Best Practice Strategies for a Fulfilling Life

• Dr. Thomas Pomeranz
• Grand Ballroom

This lively and informative session brings home the point that “habilitation is not a goal – it is a result.” People grow, develop, and become more independent as a result of participating in meaningful life activities. The session details how supports should be delivered to allow individuals with significant cognitive, physical and/or behavioral challenges to participate in all aspects of their life. The session provides the participants with insight as to how our perceptions and expectations serve as barriers in providing support. The four supported routine outcomes (facilitating connections, maximizing independence, enhancing self-worth, and producing self-determination) are detailed and their life enhancing effects are reviewed. The maxim that “without a presence, there is no future” serves as the foundation for this session.

In addition to the powerful presentation, all conference attendees will also receive one year of free telephone or email consultation with Dr. Pomeranz!

Please note: This agenda is tentative and the exact times and sessions are subject to change. More details will be added as they become available.

8:00 am – 9:00 am • Breakfast

• La Sirena / Grand Foyer

9:00 am – 10:00 am • Ballroom Session

• Grand Ballroom

10:00 am – 10:15 am • Break

• Grand Foyer

10:15 am – 11:15 am • Keynote Presentation

Embrace Your Awesomeness – It’s all about the people

• Brad Montgomery
• Grand Ballroom

Knowing that people are our most valuable asset isn’t enough. We need to fully understand how to empower and inspire them. Brad Montgomery will use humor, stories, music, and other tools to illustrate ways to improve our ability to meaningfully encourage others. Discover ways to achieving untapped productivity and accuracy while creating and sustaining positivity, optimism, and meaningfulness in others. Focusing on the people side of business not only improves the bottom line, it can be enormously satisfying, inspiring, and sometimes very funny.

11:15 am – 11:45 am • Raffle & Farewell Address

• Grand Ballroom

• All registrants (in-person and virtual) who cancel prior to September 19, 2022, will be issued a refund, less a $50 administrative fee.
• No refunds will be issued on or after September 19, 2022.
• Registrants must submit the cancellation request through the Attendee Changes Form.

• Registrants (in-person and virtual) are allowed one (1) free substitution, if requested prior to September 19, 2022.
• Subsequent substitution requests, occurring prior to September 19, 2022, will incur a $50 administrative fee.
• No registrant substitutions are permitted on or after September 19, 2022.
• Registrants can only substitute a registration to another employee of their own organization.
• Registrants must submit the substitution request through the Attendee Changes Form.

• Registrants are allowed one (1) free transfer to switch their own registration (in-person conference to the virtual conference / virtual conference to the in-person conference) – subject to availability – if requested prior to September 19, 2022.
• Subsequent transfer requests, occurring prior to September 19, 2022, will incur a $50 administrative fee.
• No registrant transfers are permitted on or after September 19, 2022.
• Registrants must submit the transfer request through the Attendee Changes Form.

Due to the ever-changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic, CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership and National Leadership Consortium will be releasing safety protocols closer to the conference date. Broadly, the in-person event will align with the relevant guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and employ measures to help protect the health of those in attendance.

• In-person conference attendees assume any and all risks to their health and safety related to participation in the event. By registering for this conference, the in-person conference attendee is acknowledging that CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership is not responsible for any personal injury (including death), property damage, or loss suffered by the attendee as a result of their participation.
• CQL | The Council on Quality and Leadership reserves the right to transition the 2022 CQL Conference from a hybrid event (both in-person and virtual) to solely a virtual event, for any reason.
• Any decision to transition the 2022 CQL Conference to solely a virtual event would be made on or before September 5, 2022.
• In-person conference registrants will then have two (2) weeks to elect to either cancel or transfer their registration.
• In the case that CQL transitions the conference to solely a virtual event, all cancellation and transfer related administrative fees for in-person conference registrants will be waived.
• In-person registrants are strongly advised to make travel arrangements (hotel, airfare, etc.) that are refundable. If you elect to purchase non-refundable travel arrangements, it is at your own risk and CQL is not liable for any associated costs or fees.