2025 CEO Leadership Academy
July 24 – 26, 2025
Riverside
2025 CEO Leadership Academy is sold out. To join the waitlist, please enter your name and email below:
Event Information
A primary goal of CLA is to offer a participant-centered experience through active learning and interaction with colleagues. Thus, all CEOs are asked to bring to the Academy a challenging issue they are confronting to share with peers and session facilitators.
Participants in CLA will leave with a list of CEO colleagues with expertise in different areas of the role willing to confer over the phone, in-person, or via Zoom; a “cheat sheet” of promising practices in areas as distinct as negotiations and collective bargaining, managing toxic employees, and board-CEO or chancellor-president relations; and perhaps most vitally, either strengthened relationships with peers, or an introduction to one or more new colleagues to offer mutually beneficial support in the months and years to come.
Hotel and Travel
The CEO Leadership Academy is being held at the beautiful Mission Inn Hotel in Riverside! All events will be located at this property.
Hotel Room Block Rate: $199/night
The link to book in the hotel room block will be provided in your confirmation email. All room rates are subject to occupancy tax, currently at 13% per night and the CA Tourism Assessment Fee of 0.195% of the total room revenue. Rates are quoted single or double occupancy, each additional guest is $25.00 per night, plus tax.
Hotel parking rate:
For registered guests is currently:
$17.00 for self-parking
$23.00 for valet parking
For non-registered guests, current posted rates apply. Parking rates are subject to change without notice.
How Do I Get to the Venue?
Click here for directions from neighboring cities and all major airports.
The closest major airport is Ontario at only 16 miles away!
Schedule-At-A-Glance
The following provides a general outline for the three-day event. Session titles are subject to change.
Thursday, July 24
Event Registration
8:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Morning Session – What Keeps You Up at Night?
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session #1 – “Cakewalk Issues”
1:15 – 2:45 p.m.
Break
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.
Afternoon Session #2 – CEO/Trustee & CEO Board Relationship, Chancellors/College Presidents Relationship
3:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Networking Reception
5:30 – 6:30 p.m.
Dinner on site
6:30 p.m.
Friday, July 25
Breakfast Networking
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Morning Session – Finance/Enrollment Management
9:00 – 11:00 a.m.
Advocacy with the Community College League of California
11:15 – 11:45 a.m.
Lunch, featuring the CEOCCC Board President Willy Duncan
12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Break
1:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Afternoon Session – Case Study Activity
1:30 – 3:00 p.m.
Activities: Work-life balance. When can I say no?
3:30 – 4:45 p.m.
Dinner with colleagues or on your own
Saturday, July 26
Breakfast & Networking
7:30 – 9:00 a.m.
Breakfast Conversation – “What’s on fire today?”
9:15 – 10:45 a.m.
Closing
10:45 a.m.
Grab-N-Go Snacks
11:00 a.m.