ISACS Workshop Emerging in Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Strengths & Styles with Carrie Grimes, Vanderbilt University Friday, April 17, 2026

Emerging in Your Leadership with Emotional Intelligence: Strengths & Styles

Friday, April 17, 2026 • 9 a.m.–3 p.m. CT

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Discover your own leadership strengths and styles to promote growth and empowerment.

Participants will have the opportunity to explore how their own style of engaging with stakeholders at work both in and out of the classroom impacts team dynamics and can be leveraged to promote self-awareness, enhance emotional intelligence, and grow one's leadership capacity.

Audience

This workshop is for ISACS Lead Learners and other current & aspiring teacher leaders.

Location

ISACS Classroom • 55 West Wacker Dr #702, Chicago, IL
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Carrie Grimes Vanderbilt University

Carrie Grimes currently serves as a professor at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College, in the department of leadership, policy and organizations where she teaches at the master’s and doctoral level and directs Peabody’s MEd in Independent School Leadership. Her expertise includes leadership theory/practice, online instruction, strategic planning, institutional advancement, instructional design, and program evaluation/management. Her current research agenda focuses on leadership persistence, faculty retention, and strategies for building community in adult online learning environments. Prior to her role in academia, Grimes served for 15 years as a teacher, school counselor, and administrative leader in independent schools in Maryland and California.

Carrie Grimes

Kimpton Gray Hotel 122 W. Monroe St., Chicago

Reserve Your Room: $189/night*

Includes: Complimentary guest room Wi-Fi & access to the health club. Complimentary Wine Hour from 5-6 p.m. daily.

*plus tax. This rate is available until Midnight CT on March 24, 2026 or block reaches capacity.

Reserve by phone:
(877) 771-7031 & request a room by block name (ISACS) or block code (C12).

Booking Tips

ISACS guests will not be charged the $27 fee which appears by default in the listed rate. Your rate will be $189/night +tax.
If you would like to extend your dates or require a room with two beds, please contact programinfo@isacs.org for assistance.

Complimentary highlights of the hotel include: a 24-hour fitness center, pet friendly policies, and complimentary coffee and tea and evening wine reception in the living room from 5–6 p.m. ISACS overnight guests will receive complimentary Wi-Fi in guest rooms. Learn about the IHG Rewards Club.

School Credit Cards

If your school plans to pay directly for your hotel with the school credit card, please contact karen@isacs.org several weeks before you arrival so your school representative can complete the hotel’s credit card authorization form to have charges billed to directly to the school’s credit card.

Parking

Overnight Valet Parking: $83/night with in & out privileges. Rate resets at 4 p.m. daily.
Overnight Self-Parking: $64/night with in & out privileges at the Poetry Garage, 201 W. Madison.
Please bring your parking ticket to The Gray’s front desk upon check-in for validation.

There are other parking garages in the area that may offer less expensive rates.
Parking fees listed above are subject to change.

Cancellation Policy

Hotel cancellations must be made 48 hours prior to arrival to avoid one night room and tax charge.

Hotel Scam Alert

ISACS does not reach out to attendees and sponsors directly to book hotel rooms. If you receive calls or emails from third-party companies, we recommend you do not provide these solicitors with any personal information including, but not limited to, making new or changing existing reservations and do not provide your credit card. If you have any doubt about the information that you are receiving regarding any ISACS room blocks, please contact programinfo@isacs.org.