2025 Student Leadership Conference
SAVE THE DATE: Friday, September 26th, 2025 3PM - 8PM in Lakireddy Grand Ballroom - Conference Center at UC Merced.
The annual UC Merced Leadership Conference is one of the longest-running conferences at UC Merced! The annual conference brings together students, alumni, and guest speakers for a full day in which students learn from speakers the many strategies and skills necessary to engage in leadership and remain life-long learners. Every year, The Souza Leadership Center brings inspiring speakers who have learned to overcome challenges to find their voice and their confidence as leaders.
Questions? Contact us at Lead@ucmerced.edu
Conference Theme: The Leadership Multiverse: Connecting with Integrity
For better or worse, we are living in a world shaped by the leaders who came before us—and today, we are shaping the future for those who will come after us. Our actions matter. Whether we recognize it or not, we are part of a deeply connected society. That’s why it’s essential to lead and connect with integrity.
Our theme acknowledges the complexity of our current world—where connection and division often coexist—and calls on student leaders to lead with vision, empathy, and authenticity. “The Leadership Multiverse” represents the many dimensions in which leadership occurs today: on campus, online, within communities, across cultures, and within ourselves.
The Student Leadership conference will feature workshops on authentic leadership, identity, leadership and much more! Registration will open soon, all are welcome to attend!
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