CRB's 2025 Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop

CRB's Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop

Friday - Saturday, August 8-9, 2025
Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW Airport North
Grapevine, Texas

Building on CRB’s sold out first leadership workshop in 2024, the Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop Second Chapter features an expanded program, brand new information and teachings, and a highly acclaimed faculty.

NO INCREASE IN REGISTRATION FEES! The registration fee for the new 12-hour program is the same as registration was for the 8-hour program in 2024.

Audience: The workshop is intended for emerging leaders in the embryology laboratory, but team members at all levels from the bench to laboratory directors will benefit.

Why Attend? You’ve studied hard to attain a wealth of technical knowledge and skills. You’ve progressed in your career. Now how do you motivate your team, stay in compliance, and maintain a culture of excellence, all while dealing with staffing shortages and other challenges? CRB’s Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop will give you tools to succeed and the opportunity to connect with peers facing the same challenges in the lab.

Preliminary program topics include, but not limited to:

How to earn your leadership role
How to handle the competent staffer who doesn't fit in
Creating safe, effective schedules for monthly and daily routines
Can conflict be of value?
Leading a team through positive culture
Beyond the microscope: using mental performance skills to unlock next-level leadership

Continuing Education: CRB’s Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop has been approved by PEER (American Board of Bioanalysis) for 12 contact hours. In addition, contact hours earned can be used to satisfy CE requirements in the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, and Montana.

Schedule

Thursday, August 7, 2025

5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Welcome and Networking Reception Hosted by Embassy Suites

Friday, August 8, 2025

7:00 a.m.-8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

7:30 a.m.-8:00 a.m.

Registration

8:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introduction
By Charlene Alouf, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

Pivot Tables: An In-Depth Instructional Session
By Michael D. Baker, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Creating a Dynamic Quality Assurance Program
By Marlane Angle, Ph.D., HCLD/CC(ABB)

10:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m.

Break

10:15 a.m.-11:00 a.m.

Lab Leaders with Off-Site Directors
By Alison Bartolucci, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)

11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Barriers to Lab Leadership
By Sangita K. Jindal, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)

12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m.

Buffet Lunch and Roundtable Discussions

1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.

Competent but Doesn’t Fit
By Bill Venier, M.Sc., ELD/TS(ABB)

2:00 p.m.-3:00 p.m.

Beyond the Microscope: Using Mental Performance Skills to Unlock Next-Level Leadership
By Marianne Kreiner, Executive Coach

3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.

Break

3:15 p.m.-4:15 p.m.

Scheduling both Monthly and Daily Assignments
By Caroline McCaffrey, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)

4:15 p.m.-5:15 p.m.

Can Conflict Be of Value?
By Kristen Ivani, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/CC/ALD(ABB)

5:30 p.m.-7:00 p.m.

Networking Reception Hosted by Embassy Suites

Saturday, August 9, 2025

7:00-8:00 a.m.

Breakfast

8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m.

In Your Leadership as a Laboratory Director, You Certify Yourself. Can You Earn It?
By Kathryn J. Go, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)

9:00 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Leading Through Errors
By Kristen Ivani, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/CC/ALD(ABB)

10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Breakout Sessions

Guest Faculty

Charlene Alouf, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)
Marlane Angle, Ph.D., HCLD/CC(ABB)
Michael D. Baker, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)
Alison Bartolucci, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB)
Kathy Go, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Kristen Ivani, Ph.D., HCLD/ALD/ELD/CC(ABB)
Sangita K. Jindal, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Marianne Kreiner, Executive Coach
Caroline McCaffrey, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Bill Venier, M.Sc., ELD/TS(ABB)

Additional Speakers to be Announced

Hotel Accommodations

CRB’s Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop is being held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW Airport North, 2401 Bass Pro Drive, Grapevine, TX 76051, located two miles from DFW International Airport.

Make your hotel reservations as soon as possible ONLINE or by calling the Embassy Suites – Outdoor World at (972)724-2600, option #1, and ask for rooms reserved for the AAB Leadership Workshop. The room rate is $169.00 per night, single or double occupancy, plus applicable taxes (currently 13%) plus a state cost recovery fee of 0.975%.

Individuals who reserve a room at the Embassy Suites will also receive a fully cooked-to-order breakfast including a buffet of hot and cold items plus a reception each evening.

July 16, 2025, is the deadline date for guaranteed room availability. Reservations received after July 16, 2025, will be accepted on a space available basis.

Important: The Hilton also operates an Embassy Suites DFW Airport South on West Airport Freeway in Irving, Texas. If you travel to the hotel by Lyft, taxi, or Uber, be sure to tell your driver your destination is the Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW North, 2401 Bass Pro Drive, Grapevine, TX 76051.