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NAPD Leadership Institute Indianapolis 2025



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Monday, April 14
 

8:45am EDT

Registration Table Open for Checking in
Monday April 14, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
Auditorium
NAPD Staff will be at the registration table just outside of the auditorium by 10am EST for you to sign in, pick up your nametag, etc. prior to opening remarks at 12:30 pm EST.

Please make sure you have completed the community guidelines and confidentiality agreement.
Monday April 14, 2025 8:45am - 10:00am EDT
Auditorium

10:00am EDT

Conference Welcome
Monday April 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Auditorium
Speakers
avatar for Diane Black

Diane Black

Training Director, Indiana Public Defender Council, Indianapolis, IN
Diane Black is the Training Director for the Indiana Public Defender Council. As IPDC’s Training Director, Diane is focused on the development and implementation of high quality programming for defenders across the state.  This focus includes innovative regional training programs... Read More →
avatar for Lori James Townes

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense
Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →
Monday April 14, 2025 10:00am - 10:15am EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

10:15am EDT

Client Centered Leadership
Monday April 14, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
Auditorium
  • Defining Client Centered Representation and Leadership v. other centers
  • Identifying challenges, dilemmas and paradoxes inherent in Client Centered Representation
  • 3 questions exercise
    Why did you first become a public defender?
    Why are you still doing it?
    What was one of your best days.
  •  Explore the Public Defender Motivational Triad
Speakers
avatar for Jeff Sherr

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense
Jeff Sherr​ is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →
Monday April 14, 2025 10:15am - 10:45am EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

10:45am EDT

Beyond Leadership to Transformational Leadership
Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Auditorium
  • The Role of Motivation and Inspiration
  • Key Elements required to increase engagement and performance
  • The power of modeling
  • Developing Credibility - Equity Theory
  • Being Proactive and Communicating Clear Expectations - (Dare to Lead, Brene Brown)
  • Effective leaders require more than basic skills to motivate their teams, especially when we have to tackle macro issues.
    In this session we review and discuss: 
    • How do we move our staff from good to great; demanding better performance?
    • What impact does the ability to inspire and motivate have on others?
    • How does it impact engagement? What if you don’t have it and have learned to lead by force?
    • Choosing to be Strategically Vulnerable
Speakers
avatar for Lori James Townes

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense
Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →
Monday April 14, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

12:00pm EDT

Lunch on your own
Monday April 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Monday April 14, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT

1:30pm EDT

Leadership Transition: What you need to know to succeed
Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
Auditorium
Taking stock of your position as a leader, idenifying areas for potential change, and setting goals for your office and yourself.  

Monday April 14, 2025 1:30pm - 2:15pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

2:30pm EDT

Small group
Monday April 14, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
Map of Conference Center Small Group Rooms
Small group assignments
Case Problem
Monday April 14, 2025 2:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

3:30pm EDT

Reframing Organizations: Four Frames
Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Auditorium
Detailed analysis of the case problem using the 4 Frames
  • Discuss each of the Four Frames and how to analyze problems and create solutions using them.
  • How to use multiple frame thinking.
  • How to choose which frame to use in analysis and problem-solving.

Speakers
avatar for Cathy Bennett

Cathy Bennett

Training Consultant, National Association for Public Defense
Cathleen (Cathy) Bennett recently moved to Anchorage, Alaska from Boston, Massachusetts where she was a public defender with the Committee for Public Counsel Services (the Massachusetts Statewide Public Defender) for 30 years. She was the Criminal Defense Training Director at CPCS... Read More →
Monday April 14, 2025 3:30pm - 4:45pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

5:00pm EDT

Facilitators Meeting
Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Conference Room A
Monday April 14, 2025 5:00pm - 5:30pm EDT
Conference Room A
 
Tuesday, April 15
 

9:00am EDT

Small group
Tuesday April 15, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  • Scene painting public defense office
  • Introduce Leadership Challenge
Tuesday April 15, 2025 9:00am - 10:30am EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

10:45am EDT

The Art of Difficult Conversations: Using Lessons Learned and Tools to Achieve Shared Outcomes
Tuesday April 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Auditorium
As leaders, it’s our responsibility and charge to ensure we’re taking care of and helping to empower the most important asset in our organizations – our people. One of the biggest challenges I hear from “titled” leaders and team members is that they don’t want or know how to have difficult conversations, even though we know that not having them is impacting our culture and representation. In this session, we’ll explore how to overcome our fears and (hopefully) learn to embrace the discomfort that comes with having these necessary conversations.  I’ll share lessons learned from mistakes I’ve made as well as offer some books, tools, and tips that help to create safe spaces where we can have, and learn to appreciate difficult conversations.
Speakers
avatar for Elizabeth Miller

Elizabeth Miller

State Public Defender, Office of the Ohio Public Defender
Elizabeth Miller is the Director of the Office of the Ohio Public Defender (OPD). She has dedicated her legal career to ensuring the most vulnerable individuals in our society are afforded quality legal representation. Elizabeth first joined the OPD in 2004 and served as an Assistant... Read More →
Tuesday April 15, 2025 10:45am - 12:00pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

12:00pm EDT

Lunch (on your own)
Tuesday April 15, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Tuesday April 15, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
  Lunch on your own

1:30pm EDT

Small group
Tuesday April 15, 2025 1:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
Case Problem with Action Plans and Scripts for Difficult Conversations
Tuesday April 15, 2025 1:30pm - 3:15pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

3:30pm EDT

Race, Class, Power and Privilege in our Offices
Tuesday April 15, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Auditorium
Add a recommendation for addressing race, class, power, and privilege, here.
Speakers
avatar for Lori James Townes

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense
Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →
Tuesday April 15, 2025 3:30pm - 5:00pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary
 
Wednesday, April 16
 

9:00am EDT

Talent Development: Successful Coaching Tips, including building strong relationships, developing performance evaluations, and setting SMART goals
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Auditorium
In this session, we'll focus on how successful leaders engage with and inspire their team members.  We'll spend some time discussing successful coaching tips, the importance of making time to build and foster trusting relationships, and why using performance evaluations and SMART goals are integral to the Talent Development Process.
Wednesday April 16, 2025 9:00am - 10:15am EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

10:30am EDT

Small group
Wednesday April 16, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts


Wednesday April 16, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

12:00pm EDT

Lunch (on your own)
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Wednesday April 16, 2025 12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
  Lunch on your own

1:30pm EDT

NAPD Ten Principles for Creating Sustainability in Public Defense
Wednesday April 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Auditorium
Applying NAPD Ten Principles for Creating Sustainability in Public Defense in your organization

Wednesday April 16, 2025 1:30pm - 2:30pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

2:45pm EDT

Small group
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  • Practice conversations that may be involved in working on leadership challenge
Wednesday April 16, 2025 2:45pm - 3:45pm EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

4:00pm EDT

External Communications and Engaging the Community
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Auditorium
Martesha and Brendon will share examples of external leadership and offer ideas for how you can become a more effective client-focused external leader by
  • Surveying the environment
  • Identifying Allies
  • Listening and Reaching out
  • Developing Media strategies
Speakers
avatar for Brendon Woods

Brendon Woods

Chief Public Defender, Alameda County Public Defenders
In December 2012, Brendon Woods was appointed Chief Public Defender of Alameda County. He is the first Black Chief Public Defender in Alameda County history and one of only two Black Chief Public Defenders in California. Woods leads his office of 200 attorneys, investigators, and... Read More →
Wednesday April 16, 2025 4:00pm - 5:00pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

5:10pm EDT

Facilitators Meeting
Wednesday April 16, 2025 5:10pm - 5:45pm EDT
Conference Room A
Wednesday April 16, 2025 5:10pm - 5:45pm EDT
Conference Room A
 
Thursday, April 17
 

9:00am EDT

What happens on Monday: Leading from Where You Are
Thursday April 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Auditorium


Speakers
avatar for Terri Collins-Green

Terri Collins-Green

Director of Social Work, Maryland Office of the Public Defender
Terri Collins-Green, LCSW-C is the Director of Social Work for the Maryland Office of the Public Defender (MOPD).   Mrs. Collins-Green has been with MOPD for over ten years.   She began as a staff social worker in the Baltimore County MOPD office, was promoted to Regional Social... Read More →
avatar for Lorinda Youngcourt

Lorinda Youngcourt

Trial Attorney, Federal Defenders of Eastern Washington & Idaho
Lorinda has been a public defender for 35 years. Starting with capital post-conviction relief at the Indiana State Public Defender's Office, to trial work with the Marion County Public Defender Agency, to private practice doing court-appointed capital cases, to creating the Lawrence... Read More →
Thursday April 17, 2025 9:00am - 10:00am EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary

10:15am EDT

Small group
Thursday April 17, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  • Action plans for going forward
Thursday April 17, 2025 10:15am - 11:45am EDT
Small Group Breakouts
  Small Group

12:00pm EDT

Closing
Thursday April 17, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Auditorium
Discussion of what we have learned and where do we go from here.  

Speakers
avatar for Lori James Townes

Lori James Townes

Executive Director, National Association for Public Defense
Lori James-Townes is the Executive Director of the National Association of Public Defense. Lori assumed this leadership position after three years of working as Assistant Training Director for NAPD and more than 25 years of working on defense teams representing indigent defendants... Read More →
avatar for Jeff Sherr

Jeff Sherr

Training Director, National Association for Public Defense
Jeff Sherr​ is the Training Director for the National Association for Public Defense producing hundreds of webinars for public defense professionals across the nation. Prior to that he was the Manager of the Education and Strategic Planning Branch of the Kentucky Department of Public... Read More →
Thursday April 17, 2025 12:00pm - 12:30pm EDT
Auditorium
  Plenary
 
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