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Linking leaders at LINCS conference

Leadership hopefuls have the chance to rub shoulders with CEOs in Renaissance Coliseum Saturday as Leaders Instilling Knowledge through Cooperative Service hosts their annual leadership conference.

A senior capstone program, LINCS is comprised of ten members that work to foster leadership among students.

“Our goal is to basically, with the 10 of us LINCS, provide other students with information and different tactics about leadership,” senior finance major Amira Arvia said.

According to Arvia, the team talks to Education Teacher Education classes at Bradley and around Peoria to teach people about leadership, time management and effective communication.

“Our big project is to organize the leadership project coming up this Saturday,” senior psychology major Brian Deal said. “We’ve been organizing it for a couple months now.”

Arvia said this is the first time LINCS has had their conference on campus.

“It’s been kind of like an overnight stay or an off-campus getaway,” she said. “It’s been an expense type travel. So, [if] people wanted to go to leadership conferences, it would cost them money.”

With the move to the Hilltop, the event has 70 students registered to attend, which Arvia said is one of the largest LINCS events they have had.

Starting with a continental breakfast at 9 a.m., students will have the opportunity to mingle with each other, meet the members of LINCS and learn their stories of leadership.

After breakfast, students will be able to move around five different small group discussions on every day leadership, conflict management, time management, team development and communication.

The students go through all the discussions, but are asked to pick their top two and focus on those, according to Arvia.

The keynote speaker between sessions will be Tom Bailey, a former CEO of TCF Bank.

Deal said Bailey will talk to students about background and the journey he took to becoming a leader and ultimately a CEO.

Although registration for the seminar is closed, students who are interested can still email LINCS advisor Jessica Chandler at jchandler@fsmail.bradley.edu before Saturday.

“We will accept [walk-ins], but it would be more beneficial if they signed up in advance,” Arvia said.

Those interested to join LINCS next year as a senior should also email Chandler or a current LINCS member with any questions.

Current LINCS members:
Alyssa Adams
Amira Arvia
Brittany Burns
Kate Carroll
Brian Deal
Mary Cate Eklund
Ryan Gutchewsky
Spencer Keck
Madison Kamp
Courtney Minner

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