Check-In

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Monday, April 20

Check-in Time Window 1: 10:30-12:30: @ The Brice Hotel
Check-in Time Window 2: 2:30-4:15: @ The Morris Center

Attendees

See who is in Savannah! Check out the 2026 Attendees

Locations and Map

Pre-cons + Breakout Sessions: The Kimpton Brice Hotel, Savannah, 601 E Bay St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA

Mainstage + Meals: The Morris Center, 10 E Broad St, Savannah, GA 31401

The Morris Center is next door to the Kimpton Brice Hotel (across E. Broad St.)

Parking: Check with your hotel about overnight parking. Day parking is free on a first-come, first-served basis in the lot adjacent to the Morris Center, with a No Overnight Parking rule strictly enforced.

The Kimpton Brice Hotel

Aerial View: Kimpton Brice, Morris Center, overflow hotels, Savannah River Walk, etc.

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Schedule

The Collective 2026 Annual Conference | Apr 20, 12:30 PM EDT – Apr 22, 12:00 PM EDT The Brice Hotel, Savannah, 601 E Bay St, Savannah, GA 31401, USA

Mon, Apr 20

10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
2 hours
Check-in Time Window 1: The Kimpton Brice Hotel
The Brice Hotel - common area
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2 hours
Pre-Con Session: Presenting, Proposing, and Persuading Cabinets, Boards, and Senior Leaders
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2 hours
Pre-Con Session: Creating Career Learning Outcomes for Campus Career Success
The Brice Hotel - Slate
12:30 PM - 2:30 PM
2 hours
Pre-Con Session: Scaling the Life Design Framework across your Institution
The Brice Hotel - Green
2:30 PM - 4:15 PM
1 hour 45 minutes
Check-in Time Window 2: The Morris Center
The Morris Center
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM
1 hour 15 minutes
Opening Session & Keynote: Jeremy Podany
The Morris Center
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
1 hour
Opening Reception: Beer, Wine, and Appetizers
The Morris Center
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
2 hours 30 minutes
Dinner on your own with colleagues in Savannah

Tue, Apr 21

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM
1 hour
Breakfast
The Morris Center
8:30 AM - 9:45 AM
1 hour 15 minutes
Mainstage Academic Panel - "Embedding Career Learning within the institution from an academic perspective..."
The Morris Center
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
45 minutes
Ecosystem Transformation Session - Career Readiness and NACE Competency Integration at a Liberal Arts College
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
45 minutes
Ecosystem Transformation Session: Building Institutional Momentum for Career Readiness: From Idea to QEP
The Brice Hotel - Green
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
45 minutes
Ecosystem Transformation Session - Collective Commitments: Co‑creating Career Learning Outcomes Across Campus
The Brice Hotel - Slate
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
45 minutes
Ecosystem Transformation Session - Fragmentation to Integration: A Career Ecosystem Journey
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
10:00 AM - 10:45 AM
45 minutes
Ecosystem Transformation Session - Ecosystem Era: Scaling High-Impact Practices for Systemic Change in the Liberal Arts
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
10:45 AM - 11:15 AM
30 minutes
Networking Break
The Brice Hotel - common area
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: The other "Hidden Curriculum" - Innovate Job Search Courses at Metro State
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: 100 Career Champion in 100 Days
The Brice Hotel - Green
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Designing a Scalable Career Ecosystem
The Brice Hotel - Slate
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Curating the Classroom to Cubicle Connection
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Distinctly Harbert - Embedded Career Curriculum Across Four Years
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
1 hour 30 minutes
Lunch; attendees get food and enjoy lunch together
The Morris Center
12:50 PM - 1:20 PM
30 minutes
Career Innovation and Career Excellence Awards (during lunch)
The Morris Center
1:20 PM - 1:30 PM
10 minutes
Transition to Breakouts at The Brice
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Classroom to Career - Scaling Active Learning...
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Don't Sleep on Student Work - Leveraging Student Employment to Advance your Career Ecosystem
The Brice Hotel - Green
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: The Big 7 - Creating and Actionable Path to a Paid Internship
The Brice Hotel - Slate
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Two Models of Integrating Academic Advising and Career Development
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Better Together - Building Student Success through a Comprehensive Coaching Model
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
2:15 PM - 2:30 PM
15 minutes
Networking Break - Courtyard
The Brice Hotel - common area
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: A Faculty-Career Center Partnership for Experiential Learning Reflection
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: FDS - Moving Beyond Salary to Measure Outcomes & Impact
The Brice Hotel - Green
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Beyond the Resume - A Blueprint for Embedding Career Readiness into Every Course
The Brice Hotel - Slate
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Career Center to Institutional Priority - How Leaders Decide to Invest
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: A National Commitment to Career-Connected Learning - Scaling Work-Integrated Learning across Higher Education
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
3:15 PM - 3:30 PM
15 minutes
Networking Break - Courtyard
The Brice Hotel - common area
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Vision to Buy-in - A Replicable Strategic Planning Model...
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Building Slap Bracelets to Solving AI Ethics
The Brice Hotel - Green
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Career Empowerment Faculty Innovators - A Cohort Model for Embedding Career Readiness Across Disciplines
The Brice Hotel - Slate
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Zero to Hero - Power-Boosting a New Employer Brand on Your Campus
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
3:30 PM - 4:15 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: It's in the Syllabus - Embedding Career Readiness Where Learning Already Happens
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
4:30 PM - 5:15 PM
45 minutes
Cohort Reunions: Mastermind, Aspire, Kickstart
The Brice Hotel - Juliette
5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
3 hours 30 minutes
Dinner on your own with colleagues in Savannah

Wed, Apr 22

8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
1 hour
Breakfast
The Morris Center
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM
5 hours
Luggage can be stored in the Sassafras Room at The Brice Hotel
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
1 hour
"Plenary Session - Closing Keynote Winthrop University"
The Morris Center
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
15 minutes
Transition to Breakouts at The Brice
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
45 minutes
Breakout: Case Study - Embedded Career Design in a Required First-Year Undergraduate Course
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
45 minutes
Breakout: Answering the Call-Then Making One - How Faculty and Staff Reflect on Vocation to Guide Student Discernment
The Brice Hotel - Green
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
45 minutes
Breakout: Elevating Student Efficacy and Closing Industry Skills Gaps...
The Brice Hotel - Slate
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
45 minutes
Breakout: From Pilot to Practice - Innovating Career Communities
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
10:15 AM - 11:00 AM
45 minutes
Breakout: Enhancing the New Student Experience through Work-Integrated Learning: A Scalable, Course-Embedded Model
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Start with the End in Mind - Using Career Markers to Guide the Student Journey
The Brice Hotel - Mercer
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Industry Intersections - A Place-Based Blueprint for Making Regional Economies the Classroom...
The Brice Hotel - Green
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: It Takes a Campus - Building Career Champions One Partner as a Time
The Brice Hotel - Slate
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout: Intergenerational Intelligence - Preparing Students for People, not just Platforms
The Brice Hotel - Griffon A
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM
45 minutes
Breakout Session: Providing Equitable Access at Scale Through a Virtual Exploration Externship Experience
The Brice Hotel - Griffon B

Schedule

Mon, Apr 20

Check-in Time Window 1: The Kimpton Brice Hotel

Pre-Con Session: Presenting, Proposing, and Persuading Cabinets, Boards, and Senior Leaders

Pre-Con Session: Creating Career Learning Outcomes for Campus Career Success

Pre-Con Session: Scaling the Life Design Framework across your Institution

Check-in Time Window 2: The Morris Center

Opening Session & Keynote: Jeremy Podany

Opening Reception: Beer, Wine, and Appetizers

Dinner on your own with colleagues in Savannah

Tue, Apr 21

Breakfast

Mainstage Academic Panel - "Embedding Career Learning within the institution from an academic perspective..."

Ecosystem Transformation Session - Career Readiness and NACE Competency Integration at a Liberal Arts College

Ecosystem Transformation Session: Building Institutional Momentum for Career Readiness: From Idea to QEP

Ecosystem Transformation Session - Collective Commitments: Co‑creating Career Learning Outcomes Across Campus

Ecosystem Transformation Session - Fragmentation to Integration: A Career Ecosystem Journey

Ecosystem Transformation Session - Ecosystem Era: Scaling High-Impact Practices for Systemic Change in the Liberal Arts

Networking Break

Breakout: The other "Hidden Curriculum" - Innovate Job Search Courses at Metro State

Breakout: 100 Career Champion in 100 Days

Breakout: Designing a Scalable Career Ecosystem

Breakout: Curating the Classroom to Cubicle Connection

Breakout: Distinctly Harbert - Embedded Career Curriculum Across Four Years

Lunch; attendees get food and enjoy lunch together

Career Innovation and Career Excellence Awards (during lunch)

Transition to Breakouts at The Brice

Breakout: From Classroom to Career - Scaling Active Learning...

Breakout: Don't Sleep on Student Work - Leveraging Student Employment to Advance your Career Ecosystem

Breakout: The Big 7 - Creating and Actionable Path to a Paid Internship

Breakout: Two Models of Integrating Academic Advising and Career Development

Breakout: Better Together - Building Student Success through a Comprehensive Coaching Model

Networking Break - Courtyard

Breakout: A Faculty-Career Center Partnership for Experiential Learning Reflection

Breakout: FDS - Moving Beyond Salary to Measure Outcomes & Impact

Breakout: Beyond the Resume - A Blueprint for Embedding Career Readiness into Every Course

Breakout: From Career Center to Institutional Priority - How Leaders Decide to Invest

Breakout: A National Commitment to Career-Connected Learning - Scaling Work-Integrated Learning across Higher Education

Networking Break - Courtyard

Breakout: From Vision to Buy-in - A Replicable Strategic Planning Model...

Breakout: From Building Slap Bracelets to Solving AI Ethics

Breakout: Career Empowerment Faculty Innovators - A Cohort Model for Embedding Career Readiness Across Disciplines

Breakout: From Zero to Hero - Power-Boosting a New Employer Brand on Your Campus

Breakout: It's in the Syllabus - Embedding Career Readiness Where Learning Already Happens

Cohort Reunions: Mastermind, Aspire, Kickstart

Dinner on your own with colleagues in Savannah

Wed, Apr 22

Breakfast

Luggage can be stored in the Sassafras Room at The Brice Hotel

"Plenary Session - Closing Keynote Winthrop University"

Transition to Breakouts at The Brice

Breakout: Case Study - Embedded Career Design in a Required First-Year Undergraduate Course

Breakout: Answering the Call-Then Making One - How Faculty and Staff Reflect on Vocation to Guide Student Discernment

Breakout: Elevating Student Efficacy and Closing Industry Skills Gaps...

Breakout: From Pilot to Practice - Innovating Career Communities

Breakout: Enhancing the New Student Experience through Work-Integrated Learning: A Scalable, Course-Embedded Model

Breakout: Start with the End in Mind - Using Career Markers to Guide the Student Journey

Breakout: Industry Intersections - A Place-Based Blueprint for Making Regional Economies the Classroom...

Breakout: It Takes a Campus - Building Career Champions One Partner as a Time

Breakout: Intergenerational Intelligence - Preparing Students for People, not just Platforms

Breakout Session: Providing Equitable Access at Scale Through a Virtual Exploration Externship Experience