Summer 2025

Registration is now open for the Association for Academic Leaders summer professional learning opportunities!

Whether you're focusing on GenAI, leadership development, teaching and learning, student mental health, or effective onboarding, our summer lineup offers valuable learning for every Academic Leader on your team. We also have a Summer Book Club!

Have Academic Leaders stepping into new roles? We have offerings designed specifically for them: Preparing for Your First Year in Departmental Leadership and Preparing for Your First Year in Divisional Leadership are great opportunities to help new department chairs and divisions heads start off on the right foot.

Not yet a member, but interested in discussing membership this summer? Click here to send an email to our member services team.

Generative AI

Leadership Development

Teaching & Learning

Student Mental Health

  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers with Dr. Lisa Damour

    June 16 - June 27
    July 21 - August 1

Welcoming & Onboarding

Summer Book Club

  • The Art of Gathering

    The Art of Gathering transforms how Academic Leaders design meaningful interactions, offering proven strategies to elevate routine meetings into purposeful experiences that drive authentic connection and institutional impact.

    June 18 at 11am ET

  • 10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People

    10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People equips Academic Leaders with research-backed techniques to transform student engagement by combining high expectations with empathetic support, leveraging adolescents' natural drive for social recognition to foster achievement and development.

    June 25 at 11am ET

  • The Good Fight

    The Good Fight shows Academic Leaders how to transform institutional conflict from a liability into a strategic asset, providing practical tools to leverage disagreement for innovation while strengthening organizational relationships and outcomes.

    July 9 at 11am ET

  • Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit

    Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit equips Academic Leaders with the essential framework to balance AI's transformative potential against its profound institutional challenges, providing indispensable guidance for navigating this technological revolution.

    July 16 at 11am ET

  • The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

    Are you aspiring to move into a leadership role within your school, or have you recently stepped into a new leadership position? Join One Schoolhouse President & CEO, Brad Rathgeber, and fellow independent school Academic Leaders in a collaborative and supportive environment as we explore The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant.

    July 15 & July 29 at 1pm ET

  • Summer Reading Kickoff

    Join us for the launch of our Summer Reading where we’ll introduce four engaging titles that dive into some of the most compelling timely and enduring issues for Academic Leaders.

    May 21 at 2pm ET

  • Summer Reading ICYMI Wrap Up

    If you can't make it to your book's scheduled discussion (or want to talk more) join us for our comprehensive Wrap Up session covering all the books.

    July 30 at 11am ET