Program: Unleashing the Leader Within You: Discover Your Leadership Style

Description: Discover your leadership potential in our dynamic one-hour webinar designed for Head Start staff. This engaging session will inspire you to see yourself as a leader and introduce you to reflective practices that enhance your leadership skills. You’ll gain valuable insights into your personal leadership style and learn practical ways to apply these skills in your daily work. Whether you’re aspiring to be a Director, Site Leader, Head Start Manager, or DEIB specialist, this webinar is your first step towards unleashing your leadership potential. Join us for an hour that could transform your career perspective and set you on the path to becoming a more effective leader in the Head Start community.

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn about yourself as a leader.
• Learn how to apply your leadership style and skills  to your work.

Unleashing the Leader Within You Presenters:

Dr. Deborah Bergeron served as director of the Office of Head Start from 2018-21. From 2019-21 she broadened her leadership as director of the Office of Early Childhood Development in the Administration for Children and Families. Known as “Dr. B” to former students and teachers, she spent three decades in pre-K–12 public education as a classroom teacher and school administrator and currently serves as deputy director for Community Engagement and Innovation at NHSA.

Zuly Vazquez is the senior manager of online professional development at the National Head Start Association. She has worked with Head Start and Early Head Start programs for over a decade, specializing in training, mentoring, coaching, facilitation, curriculum implementation, and management. She worked for several years in the classroom, providing high-quality education to children from different cultures, traditions, and ethnicities. She is a former EHS/HS parent. She has vast experience supporting and providing technical assistance to teachers, family child care providers, education specialists, and families in large EHS/HS programs in Florida and Georgia. Over her career, she designed a supplemental Christian early childhood curriculum, bilingual online lessons, and classroom observation tools and has facilitated early childhood education courses in English and Spanish at the college level. As an active early childhood advocate, she is a board member of her local NAEYC affiliate and Family Child Care Home Alliance of Georgia. She is a senior advisor of Latinas United for the Children of America.