The annual Life Skills Leadership Conference is designed to help motivate and empower new and existing Taylor Michaels scholarship recipients throughout their college experience.
Registered participants are provided with roundtrip airfare and hotel accommodations to the conference in Los Angeles, California. The conference kicks off with a welcome dinner and award ceremony for graduating scholars. The remainder of the week is filled with workshops, career panels, team building exercises and guest speakers. Guest speakers are invited throughout the week to engage the scholars in discussion about their respective professions and relevant topics. The workshops are designed to promote personal and professional well-being and enhance general knowledge on a variety of topics which include financial stability, entrepreneurship, nutrition, self-empowerment, philanthropy and more.
The topics covered at Leadership include:- Community service participation
- Heath Awareness Component
- Motivational speakers
- Teambuilding Exercises
- Personal Dev. Workshops (social & personal skills, image enhancement, bus. Prep.)
- Career panel (variety of professionals speak about their professions incl. q&a)
- Financial workshops (home loan basics, reading your credit report, 401k & financial planning, stocks & bonds info)
- Graduate School Information (process, info on tests, etc)
- Celebrity Forum (discussing youth issues with celebrities)
- Entrepreneurship
2008 Leadership Conference Sponsors: Freddie Mac, Best Buy / @15 , Dell, Hilton, American Airlines, Samsung, United Healthcare, Mercedes-Benz, Starbucks / Urban Coffee Opportunities, Enterprise Rent-A-Car
