We are very excited to announce our newest addition to our schedule this year - the NTL ABS Inaugural Virtual Conference. This will be held on November 12th and 13th and we have a dynamic agenda of speakers and breakout group discussions. Our overall theme for the conference is “Be the Bridge” and each day will also have its own focus around being the bridge.

Day 1:  Our opening keynote will be delivered by Dr. Willie Jolley. Dr. Willie is a friend of mine from the National Speakers Association.  He is a very dynamic speaker and you don’t want to miss his thought provoking opening keynote “A setback is a set-up for a comeback.”. During Day 1 we will also hear from Gwen Stirling Wilkie, Shelly Hossain and Heather Berthoud who will close out the day.

Day 2: Our opening keynote will be our NTL friend, Peter Block and he will be speaking about “Finding Common Ground”.  Peter is well known and well respected in our field of ABS/OD and one of my favorite books from him is “Flawless Consulting”. He will be followed by Neharika Vohra, a Professor from India and a colleague of Snigdha’s; and then a panel including Jody Saffert the Board Chair of ODN, Anton Shufutinsky, an NTL member and Board Chair of ISODC, Eva Moya, a social worker, bringing a different lens to the importance of being the bridge, and a friend and colleague of Darlyne's, and Darlyne Bailey as moderator. Another NTL member and past Chair of ODN, Yabome Gilpin Jackson will be our closing keynote.

We hope to see you there.