For the last three years, the USC Price School of Public Policy has partnered with the Asian Pacific State Employees Association (APSEA) in designing and delivering the “Navigating Leadership” Series. Co-Directors Bekah Christensen, who serves on the APSEA executive board, and Paul Danczyk, USC Price’s director of executive education in Sacramento, worked with a steering committee of senior state executives that included Sacramento Advisory Board members Grace Koch and Margret Kim, in designing a speaker series leading up to the day-long symposium on Nov. 13.
With more than 250 state leaders in attendance, the symposium was held at the California Public Employees Retirement System, with corporate sponsorship from Google, Lexmark-Perspective Software, NWN IT Solutions and Services, OCA Asian Pacific American Advocates, ORA Systems Inc. and the APSEA Foundation.
The program is a national blueprint where diversity, educational excellence and collaboration unite. It brought together all state agencies and multiple departments to participate in applied leadership conversations.
“This is the most important state-focused training program of the year, as it highlighted core leadership practices while celebrating public service innovations,” Danczyk said.
The distinguished keynote speaker lineup included, in order of appearance:
For more information about the program, visit www.apsea.org/.