Pre-Conference
Tuesday & Wednesday
September 16 & 17
Additional fees apply
General Conference
Thursday & Friday
September 18 & 19
Saturday Programming
Saturday
September 20
- Tuesday, September 16, 2025
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025
- Thursday, September 18, 2025
- Friday, September 19, 2025
- Saturday, September 20, 2025
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
7:15 AM - 8:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Registration & Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:15 PM - 1:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Lunch
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Reception
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
7:30 AM - 8:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
8:00 AM - 12:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Morning Sessions
8:15 AM - 9:00 AM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025
FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institute Breakfast
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Lunch
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ADI Pre-Conference Lunch
ATI Pre-Conference Lunch
FLI Pre-Conference Lunch
12:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Institute Sessions
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FLI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ATI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
ADI Pre-Conference Flagship Institutes Afternoon Sessions
12:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Registration for General Conference
1:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Pre-Conference Workshops (pre-registration required)
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Anti-Bias Workshop
Enrollment Management Data Storytelling, Board Reporting, and Dashboards…Oh My!
Saddling Up for Success: Navigating Financial Aid with Data, Tools, and Trailblazing Strategies
The Next Era of Enrollment: Strategies That Think and Tools That Learn
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
|Wednesday, September 17, 2025Opening Reception
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Breakfast
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Welcome and Opening Remarks with Mike Flanagan, CEO
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Coffee with Sponsors
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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The Art of the Interview
Confessions of a Road Warrior: Making Enrolment Travel Count
From Enrollment to Headship: 6 Essential Skills for Future School Leaders
Featured Session: Hopes and Fears: Working with Today’s Independent School Parents
What happens when we finally say the quiet part out loud?
ABCs, 123s, & Standardization: an Ongoing Analysis of Elementary Assessment
The Access Loop: Reimagining School & Access Org Partnerships
Confidently Managing Your Relationship with Your Head of School
Accelerating Financial Aid Processing
From Profiles to Purpose: Aligning Who You Serve with How You Serve
Retention by Design: Engaging Faculty to Transform Retention Strategy
Are You Ready for the Enrollment Cliff?
Strategic Partnerships: Building Cross-Departmental Relationships
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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A Fresh Start: A Strategic Reset for Financial Aid Operations
OpenAI and Claude and Gemini, Oh My!
Foes as Friends
Developing a New Market through the Power of Strategic Collaboration
How Change Management Can Modernize Your Approach to Enrollment Management
Title: Expanding Enrollment: A Multipart Approach to Growth
Lessons Learned While Building a New Kind of School
Farewell to the Open House - A Refreshed Approach to Showcasing your School
Coffee Talks: How To Build your Funnel with Local Events
Articulating Your DEI Commitment for All Audiences
Documenting Your Organization
Featured Session: Eight Things Parents Cannot Do for Their Children (but wish they could)
Dashboards, From Beginner to Pro!
Learning Differences and Admissions, How can we help?
A Journey through the Event Rabbit Hole - What story are you telling?
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Keynote - David Yeager
2:30 PM - 3:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Dessert with the Sponsors
2:30 PM - 3:15 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Book Signing with David Yeager
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM |Thursday, September 18, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Using Research to Rethink Retention and Onboarding
How Advancement Teams Drive Enrollment Success
Working Remotely, Recruiting Globally: A New Model in Admissions
SEVIS Survival Guide: Navigating Compliance with Confidence and Clarity!
Featured Session - What Happens When It Goes Viral? Deepfakes, Enrollment Risk, and Crisis Readiness
A Case Study in Crafting a Theme
Change the ROI Conversation— How Marketing, Admissions, HOSs & CFOs Win
Legal Trends for Enrollment Managers
Retaining and Elevating the 9th Grade Year: An Intentional Approach
Rethinking Financial Aid: Building a Community, Not Just a Bottom Line
Building Meaningful Partnerships with CBOs
NextGen Leadership: Cultivating and Retaining Millennial and Gen Z Talent
Peer Power: Maximizing Yield with Student Ambassadors
Creative Ways to Mess Up a Survey (Lessons from My Own Disasters)
Rethinking Admissions: Is Our Process Built for the Families We Serve?
Expand Your Curriculum, Grow Enrollment
Building and Managing Effective Admission Committees
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025Boarding School Reception and Placement Fair
6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
|Thursday, September 18, 2025PoC Reception
7:00 AM - 5:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Registration
8:00 AM - 9:00 AM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Breakfast
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Breakfast
Breakfast for International Schools
8:45 AM - 9:00 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Special Music with St. Stephen’s Episcopal School Student Orchestra
9:00 AM - 10:00 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Awards and Recognitions
10:00 AM - 10:15 AM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Coffee with Sponsors
10:15 AM - 11:15 AM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Enrollment Management: A Data-Informed, Systems-Thinking Approach
Second Season, First Choice: Navigating Late Admission
Cracking the Code: Is Yours a Market or Marketing Challenge?
Engaging with Your Community
Know Thyself: Leveraging Communications Styles for Success
Lower School Admissions Process from Start to Finish!
Featured Session - AI for Admissions: Data, Emails, Insights
Minding The Student Perspective: A Self-Reflection Snapshot
Stretching Your FA $$ – Finding need in a sea of hidden income & assets
Empowering Your Board
Global Currents: Trends and Insights in International Student Recruitment
Strategic Yield: A Needle You Can & Must Move
Stay in Your Lane! Navigating the Board, Head, and Director Partnership
The Changing Retention Roadmap
Build Better Meetings with Generative Thinking for Enrollment Success!
Partner Up: Tapping Alumni to Strengthen Your Admission Process
11:00 AM - 1:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Headshots
11:30 AM - 12:30 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Confidently Navigating DEI and Transgender Admissions: Legal Guidance for Enrollment Professionals
In Conversation: Navigating Admissions Conversations with Dignity
Cross Divisional Retention: Development, Implementation, and New Traditions
From ATI To Affecting Change
The New Family Wishlist: Insights from a Rapidly Growing Virtual School
Board Reporting: Confident Delivery and Smart AI Preparation
Meet the HENRYs: Financial Aid Strategies for Families on the Economic Rise
From Howdy to Handshake: Intentional and Insightful Parent Interviews
Engaging the Head, Board, Parents & Faculty to Energize Admissions
Anatomy of an Office: Exploring a Multi-Director Admissions Model
Increase Apps with the 3 Cs: Collaboration, Consortia, and Common Apps
After Admission: Reimagining the Enrollment Experience
Strategies for Administering the SSAT: Becoming a Test Site for Success
How to Run a Successful Play Date
Using Surveys to Inform Your Practice
Calling it Splits - Strategies for working with two-household families
Reimagining the Applicant Journey and Enrollment Funnel
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Lunch
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Women's Affinity Lunch
Lunch
1:30 PM - 2:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Keynote - Bertice Berry
2:30 PM - 6:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Headshots
2:45 PM -
|Friday, September 19, 2025Beyond the College Sweatshirt Photo: (Re)Defining ROI
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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Growing Young Leaders: Student Ambassador Program for 5th graders
Turning Your School’s Identity Into Your Enrollment Superpower
The Leader as Coach
Beyond the Placement Test: Rethinking Admissions and Academics
Targeted Events for Inclusive Admission
Being Strategic About Enrollment Without Being Strategic About Enrollment
How Avon Old Farms School Leveraged UBIQ's Innovation
Use AI to Level Up Communications, Interview Insights & Event Planning
Small Teams, Wise Investments, Big Result
A Foundation for Change: 52 weeks to Exemplary E.M. Operations
Less Admin, More Impact: AI in the Admission World
Metrics & Mission: The Student-Centered Approach to Holistic Admissions
From Portrait to Practice: Aligning Enrollment with Your Ideal Learner
Boards, School Heads, Financial Aid, OH MY!
3:45 PM - 4:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Snack Break with Sponsors
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM |Friday, September 19, 2025
Concurrent Sessions
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How Do Schools Create Competitive Advantage and Market Differentiation
Evolve+Endure: Empower Your Community As Authentic Word-of-Mouth Champions
Embracing Change in Admissions: The Intersection of Identity and Leadership
AI-Powered Writing : Revolutionizing Feedback for SSAT Writing Success
Expanding Opportunity: Using AI to Close Gaps and Open Doors
Student Ambassadors:Creating a Community Empowered to Strengthen Enrollment
Admissions Decision Transparency
Is Your PDSO Ready?
The Kindergarten Entry Point and the Nostalgia of Yesteryear
The Kids Are Driving the Bus: How Gen Alpha Will Disrupt School Admissions
Navigating Transitions and Leadership Changes
Know Your Audience: Change Up Your Communication Strategy
Navigating Change: Partnering Effectively with Your Admissions Committee
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Closing Block Party/Reception
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025LGBTQIA+ Reception
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Canadian Schools Reception
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
|Friday, September 19, 2025Networking Evening Reception
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
5K Run/Walk
8:15 AM - 9:30 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025Breakfast
8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025
Coaching Corner
9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025The Connection Hub
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
|Saturday, September 20, 2025