Finding Your Leadership Self: Professionally and Personally

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 | 6:45pm - 8:00pm MT

Location: Virtual via Zoom

Join the APTA Colorado Pediatric SIG for a virtual course, Finding Your Leadership Self: Professionally and Personally. This session will focus on several different paths for developing leadership as a pediatric physical therapist, in the APTA or other professional organizations, and in personal life situations. By highlighting the development of leadership, we will explore how to capitalize on opportunities, and how to think of oneself as a leader even before you may feel “ready” to take on a leadership role. More specifically, the session will examine leadership at many levels of APTA, in your own clinical practice as a pediatric physical therapist, and in your personal community. The goal of this session is to lead PSIG members to think more actively on how they can contribute, gain leadership skills, and offer themselves as leaders professionally and personally.

Registration for this event is donation based and open to all members and non-members.

Speaker: 

Mary Jane Rapport, PT, DPT, PhD, FAPTA

Dr. Rapport is a Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and the Department of Pediatrics, and she serves as the Associate Director of the CU PT Program with multiple leadership roles and administrative responsibilities. Prior to becoming a core faculty member of the PT Program in 2005, she was the Director of Interdisciplinary Training and Education at JFK Partners and the OT/PT State Consultant for the Health Care Program for Children with Special Health Care Needs at the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment (CDPHE). She teaches several courses in the PT Program including two Professional Development courses in the later part of the curriculum. Dr. Rapport is well published in pediatric physical therapy, and she has been a speaker at numerous conferences and workshops. Dr. Rapport has served in many APTA positions at multiple levels of the organization. She has been honored to receive several awards from APTA Pediatrics, national APTA, and CU PT Program related to leadership, service and advocacy, and she is proud of being named a Catherine Worthingham Fellow of the APTA. She believes in leadership development and succession planning as keys to a strong organizational future.

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