SUN-B06: Works in Progress: Case Studies in Leadership and Professional Empowerment

Sunday, November 13, 2022

2:00pm – 3:15pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 303

1.25 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL

Lead Speaker(s)

Alexander C. Fenech, ASLA, PLA

Principal
Hitchcock Design Group
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Speaker(s)

Kene Okigbo, ASLA

Landscape Architect
RDG Planning & Design
Omaha, Nebraska
Magdalena A. Aravena, ASLA, PLA

Founder & Principal Landscape Architect
Studio Siembra
Denver, Colorado

From principal of a national practice, to founder of a fledgling studio, to emerging professional speaking truth to power, these young leaders are working to progress both the profession and their career journeys. Their drastically different perspectives provide insight and tools to the next generation of landscape architect leaders.

Learning Outcomes:

Unpack layers of the diversity in cultural, educational, and professional paths that impacted and created a dynamic story of leadership and empowerment through a unified lens.
Discuss leadership and the traditional and nontraditional qualities conventionally associated with success while understanding how you are perceived in the profession; where one best fits as an impactful leader.
Identify and discuss the challenges and rewards of taking risks for career advancement and how to leverage all positions for personal leadership growth.
Identify the challenges and successes of taking opportunities to redefine leadership in practice and advance diversity, equity, and inclusion in the profession of landscape architecture.