2025 NCDA Global Conference
AGENDA
IN-PERSON CONFERENCE PROGRAM BOOK
For a general understanding of the NCDA Global Career Development Conference you can download the 2024 NCDA Global Conference Program Book . The 2025 Program Book will be online in early June and access to the Conference App will also be available in early June. Print copies will not be available in San Diego. The Conference App will contain the most up-to-date information, session descriptions, speaker bios, and so much more.
Times listed are Eastern time zone. The Agenda is subject to change. In June, participants will have access to the conference platform with the most accurate information.
| Monday, June 16, 2025 | |
| 3:00 - 5:00 pm | NCDA Conference Registration Open |
| 3:00 - 6:00 pm | NCDA Board of Directors |
| Tuesday, June 17, 2025 | |
| 7:00 am - 5:00 pm | NCDA Conference Registration Open |
| 7:45 am - 12:00 pm | Professional Development Institutes (4-hour in-depth workshops) (optional workshops - subject to additional fees - choose one) PDI #1 PDI #2 PDI #3 PDI #4 PDI #5 |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | NCDA Board of Directors |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | Training and Education Council |
| 8:00 am - 5:00 pm | NCDA Credentialing Commission |
| 1:15 - 5:30 pm |
Professional Development Institutes (4-hour in-depth workshops) |
| 1:15 - 5:30 pm | State Leadership Training |
| 4:00 - 5:00 pm | Committee Chair Meeting with the President-Elect |
| 5:15 - 6:00 pm | First Timer's Orientation |
| 6:00 - 7:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 6:30 - 7:30 pm | Welcome Reception |
| 6:30 - 7:30 pm | Meet the Candidates for Upcoming Board Election - read their bios in the Annual Membership Meeting Report |
| Wednesday, June 18, 2025 | |
| 7:30 am - 5:00 pm | NCDA Conference Registration Open |
| 8:00 am - 4:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 8:00 - 8:45 am | First Timer's Orientation (repeat) |
| 9:00 - 10:00 am | Constituency Group Meetings
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| 10:20 am - 12:00 pm | Opening General Session |
| 12:00 - 1:15 pm |
Lunch in the Exhibit Hall |
| 1:30 - 2:30 pm | Presentation Series 1 and Roundtables and/or Opening Diversity Equity and Inclusion Symposium |
| 3:00 - 4:00 pm | Presentation Series 2 and Roundtables and/or DEI Symposium Session |
| 4:15 - 5:30 pm | Annual Membership Meeting |
| 5:45 - 6:45 pm | Award Winner's Reception |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | International Reception |
| Thursday, June 19, 2025 |
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| 8:00 am - 4:30 pm | NCDA Conference Registration Open |
| 8:00 am - 4:30 pm | Exhibit Hall Open |
| 9:00- 10:30 am | General Session |
| 10:45 am - 12:00 pm | Brain Trust Reception |
| 11:00 am - 12:00 pm | Presentation Series 3 and Roundtables and/or DEI Symposium Session |
| 12:00 - 1:30 pm | Lunch On Your Own |
| 2:00 - 3:00 pm | Presentation Series 4 and Roundtables DEI Symposium Session |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Presentation Series 5 and Roundtables and/or DEI Symposium Session |
| 5:30 pm | Evening Activity |
| Friday, June 20, 2025 |
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| 7:30 am - 12:00 pm |
NCDA Conference Registration Open |
| 8:00 - 9:00 am |
Presentation Series 6 and Roundtables |
| 9:30 - 10:30 am | Presentation Series 7 and Roundtables and/or DEI Symposium Session |
| 10:50 am - 12:00 pm | Closing General Session |
| 12:00 pm | Conference Adjourns |
Continuing Education Hours Available
Conference Registration will provide attendees with various continuing education hours based on registration choice.
The 2025 conference provides 12-15 Continuing Education (CE) hours. For those needing more CEs, Professional Development Institutes (PDI) are available for an additional 4 CEs per PDI, for a max of 8 CEs.
The NCDA Career Development Conference CEs are approved for all NCDA credentials.
National Career Development Association (NCDA) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 1003. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. NCDA is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
If you have any questions regarding the 2024 NCDA Global Career Development Conference please view the FAQs or contact Mary Ann Powell, NCDA Convention Director.
Detailed Agenda and Session Content - coming early 2025
2024 Virtual Conference Opens July 22, 2024
Content available between July 22 and October 31, 2024
*updated July 15, 2024
| General Session: The Interconnection of Work and Mental Health and Strategies and Techniques to Promote Authenticity and Meaning Making in Career Development |
| General Session: From Well Worry to Wellbeing: Navigating Mental Health Conversations as CDPs |
| Work and Mental Health: A Fascinating Duo |
| AI and Career Assessments: Travel Faster, Farther? |
| Best Practices for Career Consultation and Facilitation with Clients Who are Experiencing Languishing |
| Campus-based Eco-Sustainability Internships: Initial Findings and Implications for Career Programming |
| Career Development Prevents/Buffers/Creates Mental Health Concerns: What Practitioners Can Do |
| Creating a Culture of Hope: Awareness, Reflection and Engagement |
| Creating Spaces for Advocacy with State CDAs |
| Critical Consciousness and Adaptability in International Student's Career Development |
| Do Free Chromebooks Impact Employment Outcomes for Immigrants |
| Emerging Technologies and Their Uses in Education, Counseling and Health Care |
| Empowering Performance: The Manager-Employee Coaching Partnership |
| Explore "The Hub" - NCDA's On-Demand, Online Learning Platform |
| Finding Calm in the Chaos |
| Fostering Career Readiness and Resilience with the Design Your Career Guide for Adolescents |
| Generative AI in Career Development: An Integral Tool for Equity |
| Group Huddle: Guide to Progressing and Elevating Peer Career Coaches |
| Hope in a Robot Workplace: Career Opportunities for the Future |
| How Peer-Mediation Trng/Work Engagement/Sense of Belonging/Well-Being Interact |
| How to Integrate Capacity-Building Career Programs: Innovative Strategies to Build Mental Strength |
| Identity and Workplace Conflict: Well-Being for Intersectional Identities of College Students |
| Inclusive Career Discussions: Strategies for Reducing Career Disparagement and Bullying |
| Interconnection of Guidelines/School Career Development: Building a Web Resource for the Future |
| Interconnection of PD, Publications, Standards, Resources and Advocacy on the NCDA Website |
| Interconnection of Trauma/Disability/Career Development: Trauma Informed Approaches |
| Job Search Club for International Students: Building a Supportive and Resilient Community |
| Living Your Values: A Self-Care Mini-Retreat Experience |
| Methods to Maintain well-being for College-Going Students |
| Nature vs. Nurture: The Age-Old Debate Impacting the Readiness of Our Future Workforce |
| Practical Examples for Career Development/Mental Health Enhancement for Workers' Well-Being |
| Preparing Youth to Succeed in the Virtual Workplace |
| Resilience in the Face of Change: Supporting Students' Experiential Learning thru Meaningful Reflection |
| Strengthening Mental Health Through Effective Career Development |
| Teaching Multiple Specializations in Career Counseling Courses: School and Clinical Mental Health |
| The $1.6 Trillion Career and Mental Health Crisis: Fixit Tools for Career Practitioners |
| The Faulty Ladder: Overcoming Barriers to Women's Advancement into Leadership Roles |
| Trauma-Informed Career Counseling |
| Well-Being and Reengaging in New Goals: Pivoting When Work-Options are Limited |
| Work, Well-Being, and Black Womanhood |
Conference Hotel
Atlanta Marriott Marquis
965 Peachtree Center Avenue NE
Atlanta, GA 30303
Ph: 404-521-0000
Online Hotel Reservations
Room Rate: $205 plus taxes.
Reservations must be made by May 26, 2025 in order to receive the group rate. Room block may fill prior to May 26, so please make your reservations in advance.
On-site parking is available.
**NCDA DOES NOT use third party booking sites. If you receive an email from a third party with hotel reservation "codes" and links, it is not legitimate and not authorized by NCDA.
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