DYAL

Milwaukee, WI | August 2025

Registration closes April 4, 2025

About the Workshop


The journey of a career in the academy can be challenging to navigate. While its self-guided, open-ended autonomy is one of its most attractive qualities, how do you know when to renew or rebalance your efforts? The Design Your Academic Life (DYAL) workshop helps academics like you assess and align your personal and professional lives so you can make better connections, be curious in ways that make the most impact, and create value where it matters most. The workshop also provides you a cohort and community for encouragement and accountability so that everyone feels safe taking risks and sharing successes and failures.

  • When: August 4 - 7, 2025.
  • Where: Saint Kate, Milwaukee, WI.
  • Who Should Attend: Faculty and other academic professionals, especially those who are in a transition period in their career (e.g., applying for tenure, considering a move to administration).
  • Cost*: $3,500 per person.

*Registration cost includes workshop attendance, airfare, lodging, select meals, one year of coaching and consulting, and access to a library of workshop materials.


What To Expect From the Workshop


Everything you learn from the facilitation and coaching team and other participants can be immediately applied to your context and topics of interest. 

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

  • Apply EM to design their academic career as an entrepreneurial venture.
  • Creating value: Identify personal and professional values to guide future actions.
  • Curiosity: Develop alternative life plans (personal and professional) that align with your values.
  • Curiosity: Explore different ways of prototyping your desired future(s).
  • Creating value: Plan small and purposeful steps toward your goals.
  • Connections: Identify colleagues who could support your personal/professional development.
  • Connections: Reflect upon how/if your personal/professional values align with everyday personal/professional activities.

Meet Your Facilitators and Coaches


Registration closes April 4, 2025