PDPW

Description

Join industry members from across the country as you build your leadership skills at this dynamic professional-development training. Applications are due January 31, 2024, for the March 12-13, 2024 program. The event will be held at the Chula Vista Resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wis.

The application-based professional development training will equip producers and industry professionals with the tools to effectively communicate and more proficiently collaborate and lead others. This training is designed to provide continued education to an array of participants: college-age students, recent graduates pursuing dairy-related careers, individuals wanting to restructure their leadership skills and/or those who are at a crossroads in their dairy career.

Accepted applicants have three training pillars from which to choose. Select your preferred pillar upon applying:

• Influential Leaders - Interact and Influence
• Visionary Leaders - Ethics, Leadership and Outlook 
• Servant Leadership - Serve, Grow, Lead 

For more information on each pillar, reference the full training flyer here.

Agenda:
Day 1 (Mar. 12) 
- 9:00 a.m.: Registration (Chula Vista Resort, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.) 
- 9:30 a.m.: Training begins
- 7:30 p.m.: Day 1 concludes

Day 2 (Mar. 13)
- 7:15 a.m.: Convenes for breakfast and a program wrap-up before adjourning to PDPW Business Conference (Kalahari Resorts, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.) 
- 9:30 p.m.: Concludes following evening banquet

Important dates:

• January 31 - Application deadline
• February 9 - Accepted applicants notified
• March 12 - Cornerstone Dairy Academy begins (Chula Vista Resort, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.)
• March 13 - Cornerstone Dairy Academy concludes (Kalahari Resorts, Wisconsin Dells, Wis.) 

If accepted, student and dairy producer applicants pay a $200.00 registration fee, industry applicants pay a $500 registration fee and the Professional Dairy Producers Foundation generously funds the remaining costs ($1100 value). Cornerstone Dairy Academy™ is a product of Professional Dairy Producers (PDPW) and is underwritten by the Professional Dairy Producers Foundation. Should you have questions, please contact PDPW at 800-947-7379 or mail@pdpw.org.

Contact

Application questions should be directed to Amber Keel at akeel@pdpw.org or 800-947-7379.

Meeting Locations

Chula Vista Resort
1000 Chula Vista Pkwy
Wisconsin Dells, WI 53965

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