FREE Webinar: Roadmap to Leadership Agency: A Lane Merge on the Road to Becoming a Scholar-Practitioner

As doctoral candidates approach the dissertation research and writing phase of their programs, it’s time to ask oneself deeper questions: What problem are you truly trying to solve? How will your research move the conversation beyond surface responses toward a deeper understanding of the systems producing that problem?

This webinar introduces a Roadmap to Leadership Agency.  A framework that helps scholar-practitioners reflect on how problems of practice are framed, examined, and ultimately addressed. Dr. Kendra Rickerby will explore how shifts in mindset, methodological choices, and systems awareness, move research beyond surface explanations toward more nuanced insight equipped to lead meaningful change.

Participants will be invited to reflect on the significance of their own studies and consider how their doctoral work can contribute not only to scholarship, but also to more thoughtful and effective leadership within increasingly complex systems.

• Clarify the core problem of practice at the center of their dissertation and consider its broader systemic significance.
• Distinguish between surface-level and integrative understandings of a problem when framing the significance of a study.
• Reflect on how methodological choices shape the depth of insight a study can produce.

Who Should Attend: 

• Graduate students working on course papers, theses, or dissertations
• Doctoral candidates preparing for data analysis
• Early-career researchers seeking to strengthen methodological rigor

Participants will leave with a clearer lens for thinking about the problem their research seeks to solve – and the leadership agency needed to advance that work.

Date & Time
🗓️ Thursday, May 21
⏰ 1:00–2:00 PM EST (New York Time)

Taught by: Dr. Kendra Rickerby