Professional Edge Seminar Series
Practical, Timely, Free
Free One-Hour Webinars for the Workforce
Professional Edge offers complimentary one-hour professional development sessions that allow participants to glean relevant and actionable insight from KU’s faculty and academic programs. Based on their extensive experience in a variety of fields, the faculty present engaging content on pertinent and on-point topics. Please see the schedule below for upcoming webinars.
Customized Employer Professional Development
Organizations seeking private professional development workshops, multi‑session series, or customized curricula are encouraged to partner with the Center for Workplace Excellence (CWE).
Employers may choose from CWE’s portfolio of topics or request a customized solution tailored to their workforce needs.
Learn more about employer solutions through the Center for Workplace Excellence: contact Alex Terwilliger at 785-864-7029
Upcoming webinars
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Quiet Leadership| May 21, 2026 | 12:00 pm
Join KU Engineering Management Program Director and Professor of the Practice, Rick Cameron, Ph.D., PE, CPEM for this important leadership topic.
Those with quiet personality types (such as introverts) can be highly effective leaders when they embrace their natural strengths and focus on empowering others, building trust, and achieving meaningful results rather than seeking attention or dominance. This quiet leadership style emphasizes listening, reflection, and thoughtful decision-making rather than loud or dominant behavior.
Quiet leaders influence others through preparation, empathy, and results, creating environments where collaboration, trust, and psychological safety are encouraged. However, quiet leaders face challenges, such as being overlooked in extrovert-focused environments, reluctance to self-promote, and fatigue from constant interaction. An important takeaway is that quiet personality types can lead effectively without pretending to be extroverts.
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Neurodiversity in Multigenerational Workplaces | June 8, 2026 | 11:00 pm
Join KU Professional Edge host and KU School of Professional Studies graduate student, Julie Myer, Ph.D., for solutions she has learned in her master's degree studies at KU.
Many workplaces now include five or even six generations, and with each cohort the prevalence of neurodiversity grows. Leadership and colleagues from these generations have different understandings of and experiences with neurodiversity. This topic isn’t just for managers. It’s for all of us, all generations and all neurotypes, who work together on increasingly neurodiverse, multigenerational teams.
During this webinar, you will:
- Gain understanding of the scientific and historical foundations of neurodiversity and generational cohorts and how that shapes workplace norms and expectations
- Analyze common friction points in multigenerational workplaces based on communication frameworks
- Identify and commit to at least one actionable strategy to implement immediately in our own teams or organizations
Registration coming soon.