Description
Junior League service builds powerful, transferable skills, often more than we realize. This interactive leadership training helps members identify, articulate, and confidently leverage their Junior League experiences in professional settings, during career transitions, and in future civic and board service opportunities. Participants will explore how League roles translate into sought-after leadership competencies, learn practical ways to position this experience on resumes and LinkedIn profiles, and gain confidence using Junior League examples in interviews and conversations. Members will leave with clearer language, stronger self-advocacy skills, and a renewed understanding of how their League involvement prepares them to lead in work, service, and life.
Speaker:
Mandy Sharp Eizinger. Mandy is based in Grand Rapids with the Dorothy A. Johnson Center for Philanthropy at Grand Valley State University, where she supports learning and applied research projects, from nonprofit board development to research on spend-down philanthropy. She has spent nearly two decades facilitating learning and organizational development across the nonprofit and philanthropic sector. Mandy brings a practitioner lens as a nonprofit leader and community mobilizer— rooted in research-to-practice frameworks such as Gallup’s strengths-based coaching and Barometer XP’s science-backed facilitation of play in organizational development. Mandy is also an adjunct instructor at GVSU and a student of improv herself, playing often at The Comedy Project Training Center.
