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alt="Woman smiling at a conference table with a group of professionals"/></p> <h1 class="h1tabs">AU Leadership Series</h1> <ul class="nav nav-tabs" data-tabs="tabs"> <li class="active"><a data-toggle="tab" href="#overview" style="border-bottom:none; color:#03244d;"><i class="fa fa-list-alt"></i>Overview</a></li> <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#past" style="border-bottom:none; color:#03244d;"><i class="fa fa-backward" aria-hidden="true"></i>Past Speakers</a></li> <li><a data-toggle="tab" href="#sponsorship" style="color:#03244d;"><i class="fa fa-usd" aria-hidden="true"></i>Sponsorships</a></li> </ul> <div class="tab-content"> <div class="tab-pane fade active in" id="overview"> <p>Auburn University's Office of Professional & Continuing Education provides non-credit education business, leadership, and management programs designed to strengthen your organization. Strong leadership and management skills are essential to success in all organizations and our programs are designed to build and sharpen these skills through a variety of offerings.</p> <p><strong> More Series Coming Soon</strong></p> <!--<h4 style="margin-bottom:15px;">October 9, 2024</h4> <img style="float:left; margin:0 15px 0px 0;" class="img-responsive img-thumbnail" src="images/jameslocke.jpg" alt="Dr. James Locke"> <h5 style="margin-top: 0px;">Dr. James Locke</h5> <p><strong>The Digital Shift: Artificial Intelligence Drives Exponential Change and Unprecedented Opportunity</strong></p> <p>Effective leaders must learn to navigate two tectonic shifts in technology that are impacting every organization. One, exponential change driven by digitalization, is familiar. The other, AI, is accelerating exponential change into unimaginable challenges. Advances in AI technologies and capabilities are happening faster than leaders, managers, ethicists, legal scholars, and educators can make sense of the coming impacts.</p> <p>In this AI Leadership session, we will define technology and AI in a simple, actionable way; explore the broad context of intellectual tools; learn how to rapidly identify and disseminate those tools within an organization for maximum impact; consider a new way to frame problems and challenges to withstand the threats of rapid change; and revisit how fundamental leadership will be the imperative for winning organizations.</p> <hr>--> <!--<p align="center" style="color:#03244d; margin-top:10px; clear: both;" ><strong>Join waitlist for in-person attendance, or register now for virtual option.</strong></p>--> <!-- <p align="center" style="clear: both;"> <a style="margin-bottom:10px;" href="https://mell-base.uce.auburn.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=C241009B" target="_blank" role="button" class="btn btn-dkorange">In-Person Registration (Huntsville)</a> <a style="margin-bottom:10px;" href="https://mell-base.uce.auburn.edu/wconnect/CourseStatus.awp?&course=C241009C" target="_blank" role="button" class="btn btn-dkorange">Virtual Registration (Zoom)</a> <a style="margin-bottom:10px;" href="" data-toggle="modal" data-target="#jameslockebio" role="button" class="btn btn-dkorange">Speaker Bio</a></p>--> <div class="modal fade" id="jameslockebio" tabindex="-1" role="dialog" aria-labelledby="myLargeModalLabel"> <div class="modal-dialog modal-lg" role="document"> <div class="modal-content" align="left"> <div class="modal-header"> <button type="button" class="close" data-dismiss="modal">×</button> <h4 class="modal-title">Dr. James Locke - Full Biography</h4> </div> <div class="modal-body"> <p>James M. Locke, Ph.D., serves as the Chair of the Department of Information Systems and Director of the AI Research Laboratory at Auburn University at Montgomery. Holding a Ph.D. in Management Information Systems from Auburn University, Dr. Locke's academic journey encompasses a rich blend of research and industry experience. With a B.A. in Economics, OPM from Harvard Business School, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Management Information Systems, his career path reflects a deep commitment to both practical innovation and academic research.</p> <p>Dr. Locke's research focus lies in advancing deep learning methodologies, particularly in the realm of neural network activation functions. A particular research focus is on leading innovation and gaining organizational advantage in exponential growth environments. His tenure at AUM has been focused heavily on AI where he established the AI Research Lab, facilitating groundbreaking research in machine learning. Additionally, he established AI-focused curricula in the College of Business and led the approval for a Master of Science degree in Artificial Intelligence, the first at any business school in the nation.</p> </div> <div class="modal-footer"> <button type="button" class="btn btn-default" data-dismiss="modal">Close</button> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="tab-pane fade" id="past"> <h5>Past Leadership Series Programs</h5> <ul><li>February 6, 2024 – Four Lenses: Putting the Human Back into Humanity with Dr. Kermit Jones</li> <li>October 31, 2023 – Conflict Management with Dr. Stan Harris</li> <li>July 27, 2023 – Ignite Your Leadership Identity: Know Yourself, Inspire Others with Nicole Pinkham</li> <li>April 13, 2023 – Leading With Purpose with Chris Richie</li> <li>January 24, 2023 – Building A Positive High Performance Work Environment with Bill Shannon</li> <li>March 3, 2020 – Partnership is the New Leadership with Ty Bennett</li> <li>August 8, 2019 – Creating Buy-in: The Art of Persuasion and Motivation with Allison Blankenship</li> <li>May 16, 2019 – Emotional Intelligence with Lori King-Taylor</li> <li>March 19, 2019 – DNA of a Level 5 Leader with Matt Overby</li> <li>August 7, 2018 – The New Conflict Management – Strategies for Dealing with Tough Topics & Interpersonal Conflicts with Allison Blankenship</li> <li>May 15, 2018 – The Art of Change Management with Lori King-Taylor</li> <li>February 7, 2018 – Developing Your Personal Leadership Values and Philosophy with Danny Butler</li> <li>July 27, 2017 – Put a Little Disney Magic in Your Service and Leadership with Pete Blank</li> <li>March 29, 2017 – Listen Like You Mean It with Deborah Boswell</li> <li>November 9, 2016 – Influence Through Accountability with Larry Little</li> <li>September 8, 2016 – Emotional Intelligence II with Lori King-Taylor</li> <li>June 15, 2016 – Juggling Elephants with Jones Loflin</li> <li>May 20, 2016 – Making a Difference with Larry Little</li> <li>February 19, 2016 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