Friday, April 25, 2025
8:30am-3:30pm

Location:

Lansing Community College West Campus - 5708 Cornerstone Dr, Lansing, MI 48917

Join us and come together with career development professionals to learn, network, and find new inspiration! This conference is approved for K-12 educator SCECHs and meets NCDA continuing education for the six credentials and the GCDF. 

Call for Proposals

The 2025 MichCDA Annual Conference titled, "Catalysts for Change: Innovating Career Development in Every Space", aims to ignite transformative approaches to career development across diverse sectors, including education, private practice, and industry. By uniting thought leaders and practitioners, the event will explore innovative strategies, tools, and collaborative solutions that empower individuals to navigate the evolving workforce landscape. Attendees will engage in dynamic discussions, share best practices, and reimagine career services to foster resilience and adaptability in an era of continuous change. This conference serves as a call to action for professionals to become true catalysts for impactful and sustainable career innovation.

PRESENTATION LENGTH: 45 MINUTES SESSIONS

SUBMISSION CRITERIA: In alignment with NCDA’s 2025 conference, please consider the following items when developing and submitting your presentation topic.

• Embracing Technological and Ethical Changes in Career Development, highlighting innovative practices and techniques that help career development providers embrace the evolving changes in technology and ethics, ensuring they remain relevant and effective in their roles.

• Innovative strategies to prepare career practitioners and the people they serve for exploring and adapting to the future of work.

• Innovative and Effective Adaptation Strategies and techniques that address the dynamic interplay between career development and the rapidly changing landscape, driven by technological advancements and shifting economic and societal expectations.

• Addressing Career Needs Across the Lifespan in a Changing World, strategies for meeting the career development needs of individuals at different life stages, with a focus on the impact of technological change, economic shifts, and evolving societal expectations, especially for underrepresented populations

• Building Cultural Competence and Professional Effectiveness in a Disruptive Era, offering effective techniques for enhancing the cultural competence and professional effectiveness of career practitioners, particularly in navigating the challenges posed by a rapidly evolving career landscape.

• Addressing Social Justice Issues in the Context of Disruption, focusing on effective strategies for addressing social justice issues that affect the careers and mental health of marginalized and underrepresented groups, emphasizing the need for adaptability and resilience.

• Innovative Strategies for Career Assessments and Services Delivery, addressing how to innovate and adapt the delivery of career assessments, guidance, occupational information, and related services to meet the demands of a constantly changing global workforce.

CONFERENCE AUDIENCE: Counselor educators, career center staff, coaches, career services providers, consultants, directors, transition specialists, managers, labor market and employment specialists, and school counselors and administrators. They work in colleges, private practice, schools, business and industry, workforce, corrections and one-stop centers, agencies, and government.

A/V EQUIPMENT/INTERNET CONNECTIONS: Meeting rooms will be equipped with head table, screen, LCD/Data projector, electrical power, and Internet. Audio visual equipment such as flipcharts and audio connections are available upon request.

HANDOUTS: Presenters are encouraged to provide their PowerPoint and/or handouts for conference attendees. Detailed instructions for uploading materials to a shared space will be provided.

Submission Information:

Proposals will be accepted Dec 1, 2024-Feb 1, 2025.

Submissions must be submitted electronically via the online form no later than February 1st, 2025 at 11:59pm EST. All proposals will be considered. Notification of proposal status will be communicated via email no later than February 15th, 2025. Paid registration for the Michigan Career Development Association’s (MichCDA) Annual Conference is required of all presenters.

Please contact Deanna Johnson, MichCDA Conference Committee member and President-Elect, at deanna.johnson@avondaleschools.org with questions.

Hotel Room Block Information

We have a room block reserved at Hilton Garden Inn Lansing West for April 24, 2025 through April 25, 2025.
Hilton Garden Inn Lansing West
633 N. Canal Rd., Lansing, MI 48917

Please ensure you book your room before March 25, 2025.