Leadership Development Designed for the Academic Health Professions
The Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program (CAAMP) is a 3-day in-person event to provide a practical, hands-on, interactive leadership development experience for department chairs, program directors, and administrators, including assistant and associate deans, in the academic health professions. Develop the core competencies for effectively managing your department or program.
July 28-30, 2025 Atlanta, GA
Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program
Leaders want and need to get it right. We all know the stakes are so high.
As a program director, chair, assistant or associate dean, you wear many hats—the ‘big picture’ leader, the guide, mentor, and role model, the liaison between your department and stakeholders, the first-line of defense, and the gatekeeper. Meeting the challenges and opportunities of the evolving academic landscape is difficult.
- How do you align your natural leadership strengths with institutional goals and stakeholder expectations?
- How do you handle maintaining momentum, morale, and vision?
- How do you articulate the big picture to senior leadership and not get stuck on the details; “acting strategically”?
- How to gain trust to lead in position?
- How do you establish work-life boundaries when faced with effectively mentoring faculty, staff, and students through their challenges?
- How do you improve your academic culture to promote innovation, collaboration, and productivity in a way that fosters engagement and value of faculty, staff, and students?
With all that’s on your plate, where can you turn to reset, recharge, and regroup? The Chairs and Academic Administrators Management Program provides a supportive atmosphere for you to assess your leadership and focus on purposeful preparation for effectively managing your department or program. Through practical, interactive learning and engagement with leaders who have successfully powered through the obstacles you are currently facing, you will explore tangible strategies on improving communication, overcoming impediments, and expanding your influence for a lasting leadership and management impact.
Tuition: $1,775 (discounted 10%; increases 5/7/25) |
This program is for you if you desire to:
- Learn strategies to be an influential leader.
- Develop and continuously enhance your leadership approach.
- Effectively manage your unit, program or department to align with institutional goals.
Who Should Attend?

- New, Current, and Aspiring Administrators
- Academic / Administrative Leaders
- Associate / Assistant Deans
- Clinical / Course Director
- Department Chairs / Heads
- Directors
- Faculty Leader
- Program Coordinator
- Program / Project Directors
During the program, you will learn:

Professional Assessment of Leadership Competencies

Financial efficacy

Wellness & Work-Life Boundary Management

Communication Skills & Interprofessional Engagement

Critical feedback and managing civility

Strategic Thinking and Decision-making

Collaborative change and impact

Academic legal issues
What Our Alumni Say
Program Faculty
Below are our 2025 experts:

Karl Haden, PhD
AAL President & CEO

Felicia Tucker-Lively, PhD, MPH
AAL Vice President

Joshua Cox, DO, FACOFP
Executive Dean, College of Osteopathic Medicine (COM); Vice Provost for Medical Affairs, Kansas City University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Michelle A. Robinson DMD, MA
Senior Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Patty Xirau-Probert, PhD
Associate Dean of Student Affairs and Involvement, University of Florida College of Dentistry

Pamela Zarkowski, MPH, JD
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Detroit Mercy