Attending a NACAC preconference workshop offers the opportunity to dive deeper into specialized topics through hands-on learning and extended discussion with peers and experts. It’s a valuable way to gain practical strategies, strengthen your professional network, and arrive at the conference feeling informed, energized, and prepared.

Preconference events can be added to full conference registration for an additional fee in the registration process.

Preconference workshops are one day programs that take place on Wednesday, October 7. This year’s offerings include:

Admission Middle Management Institute (AMMI) serves as a unique professional development opportunity for mid-level leaders within the field of college admission. The workshop is designed to foster collegiality and transparency in the exchange of insight critical to professional advancement.

AMMI challenges participants with content suggested as essential to the successful growth trajectory of mid-level admission professionals. The leadership and facilitators of this workshop utilize small group discussions, promising practices, and expert panels to cultivate life-long professional competencies and connections. Specific skills include strategic planning, managing and advocating for your budget, achieving success through coaching, and working with third-party vendors.

Future Thinking, Future You: A Human-First Leadership Recalibration

Enrollment leadership requires constant decision-making about what comes next, often without dedicated space to step back and think strategically. The Future Thinking, Future You Enrollment Leaders Forum creates that space.

This full day event brings together enrollment leaders for a structured, forward-looking experience focused on strategy, alignment, and leadership development. It also creates space to examine the leader behind the work, including how decisions are made, what drives priorities, and how leadership is sustained over time.

Participants will engage with key issues shaping the field, including AI, policy and compliance shifts, institutional alignment, and emerging academic models, while reflecting on how these forces connect to their own leadership approach. Through small-group discussion and guided reflection, participants will test ideas, share perspectives, and learn from peers across institutions and roles.

This session is designed for experienced and emerging leaders, supporting both strategic thinking and personal clarity, with time to reconnect to priorities, leadership style, and professional direction. Each participant will leave with a personalized “Future You” agenda outlining clear priorities, key questions, and strategic themes to guide their next phase of leadership.

As the field of college admission evolves, so does the role of college counseling. Leading a Dynamic College Counseling Program (Leading) is an intensive workshop designed to support professionals in the acquisition of essential tools, resources, and knowledge pertaining to the field.  College counseling professionals, regardless of title, can lead their program and facilitate change from any position. The facilitators of this workshop provide hands-on training, as well as resources to support participants in their pursuit of becoming a transformative leader in their college counseling office.

Topics include: defining and understanding leadership, inclusive counseling, data-driven decision making, and preventing counselor burnout.

If a 2.5 hour session is a better fit for your schedule, sign up for a Preconference Seminar taking place on Thursday, October 8 from 7:30 – 10:00 a.m. CT. Seminars cover a variety of topics and different levels of experience.

Pricing

Member Associate Non-Member
Enrollment Leadership Forum (ELF) $625.00 $825.00 $825.00
Admission Middle Management Institute $600.00 $800.00 $800.00
Leading a Dynamic College Counseling Program $475.00 $675.00 $675.00

Member Associate Non-Member
Enrollment Leadership Forum (ELF) $650.00 $850.00 $850.00
Admission Middle Management Institute $625.00 $825.00 $825.00
Leading a Dynamic College Counseling Program $500.00 $700.00 $675.00

Preconference Workshops Member Associate Non-Member
Enrollment Leadership Forum (ELF) $675.00 $875.00 $875.00
Admission Middle Management Institute $650.00 $850.00 $850.00
Leading a Dynamic College Counseling Program $525.00 $725.00 $725.00

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