CRB Announces 2025 Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop

CRB Laboratory Management and Leadership Development Workshop

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

Preliminary Program

Topics include, but not limited to:

  • How to earn your leadership role
  • How to handle the competent jerk
  • Creating safe, effective schedules – for monthly and daily routines
  • Can conflict be of value?
  • Leading a team through positive culture
  • The use of pivot tables to analyze your data
  • Employing a leadership coach to support leadership growth and performance

Preliminary Guest Faculty

Topics include, but not limited to:

  • Kathy Go, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
  • Kristen Ivani, Ph.D., HCLD/ALD/ELD/CC(ABB)
  • Marianne Kreiner, Executive Coach
  • Caroline McCaffrey, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
  • Additional Speakers to be Announced

Preliminary Schedule

Thursday, August 7, 2025

5:30-7:30 p.m.
Welcome and Networking Reception Hosted by Embassy Suites

Friday, August 8, 2025

7:00-8:00 a.m.
Registration / Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-5:15 p.m.
Educational Program
5:15-7:30 p.m.
Networking Reception Hosted by Embassy Suites

Saturday, August 9, 2025

7:00-8:00 a.m.
Breakfast
8:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Educational Program

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? The CRB’s new workshop will give you tools to succeed and the opportunity to connect with peers facing the same challenges in the lab.

Continuing Education: PEER (American Board of Bioanalysis) program approval pending. Contact hours earned can be used to satisfy CE requirements in the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, and Montana.

Embassy Suites

Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW Airport North

The Embassy Suites by Hilton Grapevine DFW Airport North, 2401 Bass Pro Drive, Grapevine, TX 76051, is located two miles from DFW International Airport.

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.


Thank you to the sponsors of the 2025 CRB Leadership Workshop



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