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Intensive Session: Building High Performance Leadership Teams: Leading with Confidence, Clarity, and Emotinal Intelligence
SESSION INFO
Sunday, March 1, 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 demostrate 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 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 create a mission statement that defines their leadership purpose. This session blends clarity and confidence, empowering leaders to turn insight into measurable impact and transform how they lead their teams.
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SESSION PRESENTERS
Jason Garnett, PhD
, JCG & Company
Dr. Jason C. Garnett is a nationally recognized strategic leadership and corrections expert with more than 20 years of executive experience advancing criminal justice reform and organizational transformation. As the former Chief of Parole and Acting Assistant Director for the Illinois Department of Corrections, he led statewide reentry initiatives serving over 15,000 parolees and managed a team of 350 professionals, achieving a measurable reduction in recidivism and earning a 100% accreditation rating from the American Correctional Association. Now the Founder and Principal of Jason C. Garnett & Company, Dr. Garnett partners with correctional agencies, corporations, and educational institutions to develop high-performing leadership teams grounded in clarity, accountability, and emotional intelligence. His firm helps organizations align vision with execution through mission driven leadership and measurable outcomes. A Marquis Who's Who Millennium Honoree, Dr. Garnett holds a Doctorate in Public Administration from the University of Illinois Springfield and a Master's in Rehabilitation from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. His work continues to empower leaders and organizations to drive sustainable impact and meaningful change.
Dep. Chief Marcus Ivy
Deputy Chief, IL Department of Corrections
Marcus Ivy is a seasoned corrections professional and leadership trainer with more than 25 years dedicated service to the Illinois Department of Corrections. Beginning his career in 1999 as a Correctional Officer, Mr. Ivy advanced through multiple leadership roles, including Parole Commander, Administrative Commander, and ultimately Deputy Chief of Parole, where he oversaw statewide operations and leadership development initiatives. Throughout his tenure, Mr. Ivy played a pivotal role in designing and implementing critical training programs such as CPR, Close Quarter Combat, Host-Site Safety, Leadership Training, and annual Policy Compliance standards. As a core member of the Parole Division's Training Team, he helped establish professional development frameworks that continue to strengthen leadership capacity and operational excellence across the agency. Mr. Ivy earned his Master of Ministry degree from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Illinois, in 2012. Following his retirement in 2024, he continues to serve as a mentor and leadership consultant, promoting accountability, resilience, and purpose driven leadership within the corrections community and beyond.
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