Call for Papers

14th Women's Leadership and Empowerment Conference [WLEC2023] accepts the following types of submissions and they will be evaluated as follows:

  • Academic submissions:
    1.  Currency, importance, and relevance to the conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Clearly states design methodology and findings* (applicable for complete research papers)
    4. Originality and innovation
    5. Clarity of abstract as indicator of presentation quality

  • Professional and personal development:
    1.  Relevance to conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Idea flow as and indicator of presentation quality
    4. Creative and inspirational
    5. Contains applicable and beneficial items

  • NGO, Government, Non-Profit:
    1.  Relevance to conference themes
    2. Clearly states purpose and outcome
    3. Idea flow as an indicator of presentation quality
    4. Clearly stated implementation
    5. Societal impact

Proposals are accepted on a rolling admission basis as long as space is available or by January 25th 2023* at the latest and are to be be submitted along with application form. All submissions will be peer reviewed and acceptance/rejections is based on criteria specified above, as well as professional and personal background of the applicant, in order to ensure a diverse learning environment. Admission decisions are made on a rolling admission basis, within working 10 days after the application has been received. 

​*Admission may close earlier than the date stated above if space in the conference fills up.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

dr. Megumi Okugiri
University of the Sacred Heart
jAPAN
Dr. Megumi Okugiri is currently a professor at the University of Sacred Heart Tokyo, teaching Leadership and Teamwork, Cross-cultural Communication, Language Acquisition, and Language & Identity.
Dr. Susan Crosbie
Susan E Crosbie Consulting, LLC
oman
After working for various investment banks in NYC and Bangkok, Dr Susan Crosbie returned to academia and earned her doctorate in education from the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Campus, USA in 2006. Her inspiration came after teaching at an adult literacy program in the Republic of South Africa from 1996-2001. She has been teaching in the Arabian Gulf for over seventeen years, and currently during the academic year, she acts as an educational consultant for K-12 schools. Her research interests include 1) academic integrity and the use of technology, including artificial intelligence, not only in the identification of academic fraud but also in guiding students how to use technology to build vocabulary to avoid plagiarism, and 2) MSALs (Modern South Arabian Languages) of Oman which are included in the UNESCO list of endangered languages.
Khandicia Randolph
Regent University
usa
Khandicia Randolph is the owner and sole proprietor of Finer Consulting Services. A Chicago native, Khandicia has been a member of the Columbia, MO community for 20 years. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Missouri (Columbia), a Master of Public Administration, and a Master of Arts in Law from Regent University’s School of Law. Currently, she is in her final year as a Doctor of Strategic Leadership student at Regent University. She has consulted for Columbia Public Schools, The Daniel Boone Regional Library, and Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated chapters in Columbia and KansasCity, MO, as clients on various aspects of leadership development, effective communications, and, organizational planning and strategy. Khandicia has presented domestically and internationally on topics concerning effective communications, accountability, and leadership development
Laura R. Leaton
Anchored Elements Coaching and Training, LLC.
usa
Laura Leaton has a natural gift for helping individuals discover their inner strengths and use those strengths to achieve personal and professional success. She is an expert in sales, Leadership Development Training, and personal performance coaching. What began as a successful stint coaching Division I Collegiate Women’s Volleyball, led her to an accomplished 17-year career with a competitive global Fortune 500 company. During her tenure, she successfully held Sales Training, Sales Management, Sales Director and Executive Coaching roles and ultimately Executive Director of Leadership Development where she coached managers, emerging leaders and individual contributors throughout the company. Laura has spent her entire career, leading high performing teams, and supporting individuals in achieving their goals. After much reflection into her own leadership journey, she has cultivated an intense devotion to promoting the power of compassion in the workplace. She has a reputation for employing a personal, dynamic approach to affecting change. She is recognized as an energetic leader, strong motivator, noteworthy communicator and powerful speaker. Laura is an Executive Coach, Transformational Leadership Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. She is the owner of Anchored Elements Coaching, LLC. Laura grew up in Los Angeles, CA. and now travels the country in her fully renovated sprinter van named “Wanda” (short for Wanderlust.) She is a dedicated volunteer and mentor at Down Syndrome of Louisville, loves to travel and enjoys all things outdoors.
Prof. Gerald Fry
University of Minnesota
usa
Dr. Fry is a distinguished international professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership, Policy, and Development, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota. He received his BA from Stanford University, an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton, and his PhD from Stanford University. Previously, Dr. Fry was a professor of political science and international studies at the University of Oregon where he also directed the International Studies Program and the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. He was the team leader for major Asian Development Bank projects in Laos and Thailand related to education reform. He has previously taught at Stanford and various universities in Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam. In 1991–1992, he was a Pew Fellow in International Affairs at the Kennedy School at Harvard.  Among his many publications are the books Pacific Basin and Oceania; The International Education of Development Consultants: Communicating with Peasants and Princes; International Development Dictionary; Thailand and Its Neighbors: Interdisciplinary Perspectives; Synthesis Report: From Crisis to Opportunity, The Challenges of Educational Reform in Thailand; Association of Southeast Asian Nations; Historical Dictionary of Thailand; and Education in Thailand: An Old Elephant in Search of a New Mahout.
Sandy Lamb
Altitude Business Coaching
usa
Sandy believes in a world where all leaders model emotionally intelligent behavior to transform the way their teams collaborate and grow both personally and professionally. Through her targeted executive coaching program, assessments and leadership training, she helps women, in male dominated industries, to gain self-confidence in their ability to inspire and influence others by their authentic leadership style. She spent 27+ years working as a female executive in the Engineering/Construction industry and is a graduate of Johns Hopkins University with an MBA in International Business.
Topics
  • Casual factors of leadership development
  • Can leadership be learned? – Nature vs. nurture
  • Creating an innovative leadership
  • Creating a new relationship with your values, especially money
  • Cross cultural aspects of leadership
  • Cultures and women
  • Education
  • Family systems: Change and traditions
  • Gender equality
  • Growing as individuals
  • Leadership development
  • Leadership styles and techniques
  • Leadership values
  • Leading under extreme diversity
  • The role of women in contemporary society
  • The role reversal in the home and workplace
  • Shaping the future by female leaders
  • Success stories: Meet women who have achieved successful careers
  • Women in history
  • Women and leadership
  • Women with disabilities
  • Women and sports
  • Women's studies
  • Women as entrepreneurs
  • Women and environment
  • Women in politics
  • Other topics related to the empowerment of women, women's leadership and women's rights.
TYPES OF PRESENTATIONS
The following presentation formats will be possible at the conference:
  • Oral presentation: In-person to a live audience
  • Poster presentation:  Posters are exhibited in the conference hall and available for questions and discussions
  • Video presentation: Pre-recorded video
PUBLICATION
Tomorrow People Organization is a member of CrossRef. Published paper will be assigned individual DOI and will be indexed in CrossRef citation database as well Google Scholar and 
WLEC digital library. ​​
Papers presented at the conference will be published in the official ISBN conference proceedings publication.

Tomorrow People Organization is a member of CrossRef. Published paper will be assigned individual DOIs for easy citation and will be indexed in CrossRef database as well Google Scholar and WLEC digital library. 

In order to have your paper published in the official conference proceedings, your submission should have been previously approved and registration arrangements completed.

Paper publication is not mandatory. Authors who have completed registration arrangements and wish to have their paper published in the official conference proceedings publication must submit the final manuscript by February 10th 2023. Otherwise, only the abstract will be published, if it meets formatting requirements and is approved by the WLEC reviewing board.
 
Formatting guidelines:
  • A4 size paper
  • Single line space
  • Margins: 2 cm on the left and 2 cm on the right
  • Format: Align left
  • No footers and headers allowed and no numbered pages
  • Fonts:
                Title: Times New Roman 14 bold
                Subtitles: Times New Roman 12 bold
                Text: Times New Roman 12
  • Front section (first page):
  1. Title of submission
  2. Name/s of author/s
  3. Affiliation/s of the author/s
  4. E-mail address of corresponding author
  5. Abstract of maximum 250 words (or one page)
  6. Key words 3-10 (under abstract)
  • Main section (manuscript):
  1. Introduction
  2. Results (where applicable)
  3. Discussion
  4. Methodology (where applicable)
  5. Conclusion 
  • End section:
  1. Acknowledgments (where applicable)
  2. Funding (authors of academic research papers must clearly disclose sources of funding for conducting their research; any grant received should be clearly indicated. If you have not received any external funding from your research, please state: "This research received no external funding)
  3. Conflict of interest (authors of academic research papers must state any circumstances that may be perceived as a conflict of interest in terms of representing or interpreting the research results. If there is no conflict of interest, please state: "Authors declare no conflict on interest")
  4. References (APA style)

*Full paper template - DOWNLOAD

Deadline for proceedings submissions (for registered authors): February 10th 2023.
Submissions received after this date or/and in a format different than specified will NOT be published. We strongly recommend early submissions to allow enough time for a review and feed back in case there are changes to be made in formatting.