b'FRIDAY Conference registration open from 8:00AM12:00PM2:15PM3:30PM CONCURRENT SESSIONS IIIPAIRED THEORY & PRACTICE INCLUSIVE ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP:Strategies for Facilitating Collaboration and Motivating TeamsEffective team-building and inclusive leadership are useful approaches for avoiding or lessening the impact of obstacles to impactful leadership. Under-standing that we can never go it alone academic leaders must constantly find ways to get buy-in from institutional stakeholders, including their own fac-ulty and staff, to successfully manage people and programs. Using Apprecia-tive Inquiry as a theoretical framework, academic leaders can work to create environments that will foster positive and sustained change. The four basic steps of Appreciative Inquiry- Discovery, Dream, Design and Destiny- pro-vide teams with opportunities to highlight and build on past successes while envisioning an ideal future. Inclusive leadership, a much-touted approach to management in the corporate arena, can be adapted for the academy to not only augment diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, but to change the way in which decision-making takes place. This interactive session will draw upon several examples of how appreciative inquiry and inclusive leadership have been used to encourage and build on stakeholder engagement in undergrad-uate education.18Register at ccas2019'