The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement Learning Center
Day Three: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in A Short-Term World
Includes a Live Web Event on 07/17/2025 at 1:00 PM (EDT)
1 pm - 2:30 pm ET, Thursday, July 17
1:00 - 1:30 How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in A Short-Term World
Keynote speaker: Dorie Clark
It's no secret that today's leaders and professionals feel pulled in too many directions. We want to be long-term thinkers, but we're constantly putting out fires and dealing with short-term challenges. In this talk, Dorie Clark, Harvard Business Review author and Columbia Business School executive education professor, will share concrete strategies to help you sharpen your strategic thinking and balance competing short- and long-term priorities. You will learn how to:
- Identify areas with unique potential for leverage
- Understand what we're optimizing for
- Make the right kind of tradeoffs
- Achieve 'strategic patience'
- Place little bets to find promising leads and emergent possibilities
1:30 – 1:50 Roundtable Discussion about Strategic Thinking in Animal Welfare
The Roundtable Panel, moderated by Jim Tedford, CAWA, President & CEO, The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement
- Christopher Agostino, Executive Director, Humane Society of Broward County
- Raissa Allaire, Executive Director, Tree House Humane Society
- Shelly Moore, CAWA, CEO, Humane Society of Charlotte
1:50 – 2:30 Small Group Discussions
Talk in very small groups of your peers about how you might apply ideas from the past hour into your own life, team, and organization. The full group will come together at the end to "report out" on ideas. What a great way to build your network and use the hive mind to brainstorm solutions to big challenges.
Note: the recordings of the keynote and the roundtable will be available through December 31, 2025.
Dorie Clark
Harvard Business Review Author & Columbia Business School Professor
Dorie Clark has been named three times as one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50, and was recognized as the #1 Communication Coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards. Clark, a consultant and keynote speaker, teaches executive education at Columbia Business School, and she is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author of The Long Game, Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the #1 Leadership Book of the Year by Inc. magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, Clark has been described by the New York Times as an “expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, she consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and the World Bank. You can download her free Long Game strategic thinking self-assessment at dorieclark.com/thelonggame.
Christopher Agostino
President and CEO, Humane Society of Broward County
Christopher Agostino has served as the President and CEO of the Humane Society of Broward County (HSBC) for over 30 years, leading the organization in its mission to advocate for and improve the lives of animals through adoptions, community services, and education. Under his leadership, HSBC has become a nationally recognized leader in animal welfare, operating a 33,000-square-foot shelter that houses more than 300 animals and placing thousands of pets into loving homes annually. Christopher has also spearheaded major fundraising initiatives, such as the annual VCA Walk for the Animals, which raised nearly $500,000 to support the shelter's veterinary and adoption programs.
Raissa Allaire
Executive Director, Tree House Humane Society
Raissa Allaire joined Tree House Humane Society in May 2018. Raissa has been a nonprofit leader for the past 20 years, including as COO of a social services organization and as a vice president/Chief of Staff for a Chicago museum. Raissa is also a member of the board of The Association for Animal Welfare Advancement.
Shelly Moore, CAWA
CEO, Humane Society of Charlotte
Shelly A. Moore, CEO of the Humane Society of Charlotte since 2010, brings 40 years of leadership in animal welfare and nonprofit management. A Certified Animal Welfare Administrator, she has held executive roles at humane societies and has served on multiple national and state nonprofit boards. Shelly is a recognized expert in nonprofit governance, leadership development, and animal shelter design, frequently speaking at conferences nationwide.
This session, both live and the recording, has been approved for:
- 1 Certified Animal Welfare Administrator continuing education credit
- 1 NACA CE
- 1 CE towards ACO CE requirements per Ch. 829 of the Texas Health and Safety Code by the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS)
- CFRE: Full participation in the session is applicable for 1.0 points in Category 1.B-Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification
