CEO Academy @ The Gathering Spot
Today’s rapidly changing landscape of public and affordable housing requires professionals that are adaptive, innovative, transactional – but most of all, effective!
Whether you’re looking to dive deep in specific areas or improve your overall business acumen, CEO-Academy is designed to meet you where you are. Proven industry practices and professionals with intense leadership training infused into the fabric of revitalizing the urban and rural built environment, will help you to maximize your ability to create organizational value, develop your career, and improve the communities you serve.
Led by industry leader, Damon E. Duncan, CEO-Academy is unlike many of the existing leadership development training available today. Mr. Duncan is a 30-plus year public and affordable housing professional who has managed small, medium, and large Authorities, developed hundreds of units while enhancing the overall quality of life for the families served by various initiatives.An avid trainer, consultant, developer, and adjunct professor, Mr. Duncan understand how to connect with students and practitioners with real-world solutions to the issues and complexities of providing quality affordable housing in various settings.
CEO Academy is targeting public housing, non-profit, and government administrators:
- Existing executive director and CEO’s;
- Deputy Director; and
- Current Division Heads
- Strategic PHA Repositioning – Innovative Programming
- Managing the Board
- Developing and maximizing the non-profit
- Recruitment, placement & Succession Planning
- Leadership Development: Strategic Continuing Education
- Understanding the history of racism and disparities in public housing
- Small, medium, and large PHA strategies
- Capstone Introduction
- Strategic Transitioning
- Alternative Career Tracks
- Project Management Essentials
- Creating non-traditional positions
- Strategically absorbing other agencies
- Public speaking essentials
- Comprehensive Community Development / Mixed Finance Development
- Understanding and calculating Low Income Housing Tax Credits
- Excel Bootcamp (budgets and pro-formas)
- Effective supportive Services
The second meeting with the charter cohort will be held in February of 2024 (exact date to be determined) at Morehouse College in Atlanta.
The Black-Tie graduation ceremony for the charter cohort will be held in the summer of 2024 with the date to be determined. During the ceremony students will present their capstone projects to the attendees. The Black-Tie ceremony will also serve as a fundraiser to promote scholarships through our Ventures Youth Development non-profit.
Total Cost: $4,500.00 – This fee can be paid in two installments of $2,250.00. Each installment is due 30 days prior to cohort meeting date. Prerequisites: A minimum of one-year employed with a public housing authority and a four-year college degree. For more information, please contact Michaela Traylor at mtraylor@clesiaventures.comThe Darwin Hotel
