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Intensive Session: Building High-Performance Leadership Teams
SESSION INFO
Sunday, August 16, 2026
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Session Type: Intensive
This interactive session equips leaders to analyze their leadership style, evaluate emotional intelligence in action, and apply strategies that strengthen confidence, collaboration, and accountability. Through guided reflection and real-world exercises, participants will demonstrate effective communication skills that build trust and design a personal leadership mission statement aligned with organizational goals. Each activity incorporates specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound (S.M.A.R.T.) outcomes, ensuring participants leave with actionable tools to improve team performance and engagement. By the end of the session, leaders will have identified one behavior to strengthen, developed a strategy to enhance emotional intelligence, and created a mission statement that defines their leadership purpose. This session blends clarity with confidence, empowering leaders to turn insight into measurable impact and transform how they lead their teams.
Training Objectives:
- Analyze their personal leadership styles to determine how it influences communication, motivation, and team performance.
- Evaluate how emotional intelligence impacts decision-making, trust, and accountability within teams.
- Apply leadership confidence strategies to effectively manage conflict and inspire team alignment.
- Demonstrate communication techniques that enhance collaboration and strengthen professional relationships.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jason Garnett, PhD
Founder & Principal, JCG & Company
Dr. Jason C. Garnett is a respected expert in strategic leadership, organizational development, and criminal justice reform with more than 30 years of experience in corrections and executive leadership. As the former Acting Assistant Director and Chief of Parole for the Illinois Department of Corrections, he has led statewide initiatives advancing leadership culture, operational excellence, and reentry reform. As Founder and Principal of Jason C. Garnett & Company, he empowers organizations across corrections, corporate sectors, and higher education to build high-performing teams, strengthen accountability, and align strategy with measurable outcomes. His mission-driven approach emphasizes clarity, collaboration, and execution, helping leaders turn vision into sustained impact. Dr. Garnett holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from the University of Illinois Springfield and a Master's in Rehabilitation from Southern Illinois University of Carbondale. Recognized nationally for Excellence in Corrections Leadership, he continues to advise, coach, and develop leaders committed to building effective systems and fostering lasting organizational transformation.
Crystal Sherrill
Operational Excellence Strategist and Coach, CPS & Co., Strategic Planning & Operations Agency
Crystal P. Sherrill is an Operational Excellence Strategist and Coach who helps organizations across various sectors, including corrections and electronic monitoring, establish a clear vision, order, and execution that doesn’t burn people out. With nearly 20 years of experience in learning, leadership, and operational restructuring, she builds systems that raise standards while supporting people. With 17 years inside the corrections and electronic monitoring space, her work sits at the intersection of people, learning, and operations. Crystal spent nearly two decades supporting parole, probation, and aftercare agencies through GPS and case management software, training field agents, supervisors, and leadership teams responsible for tens of thousands of cases. Her people-first approach ensures staff feel understood, supported, and confident in their roles, especially under pressure. Today, as the founder of a strategic planning and operations firm, Crystal partners with organizations to design learning, workflows, and leadership systems that are intentional, effective, and grounded in real-world demands. She believes operational excellence is not about working harder, but about integrity, clear expectations, and building systems that enable people to do meaningful work well. Her leadership philosophy is simple: when people are prepared, respected, and supported, performance naturally improves, fostering a culture of trust and excellence.
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