Get a Game Plan: How to Stay AI Engaged By Building Your Best Week Ever

Time management coach Anna Dearmon Kornick helps you turn summit ideas into a realistic plan for your week back on campus.
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About this session

October 14, 2026
3:15 PM ET
AI Engage Fall Summit 2026
Keynote
Leadership & Professional Growth
Day 2: Workforce and Continuing Education
Speakers
Anna Dearmon Kornick
Author, Top Ranked Podcaster & Time Management Coach

Over the past two days, you’ve explored new ideas, strategies, and possibilities for improving Student Success and better supporting learners through Workforce Credentials and Continuing Education. But what happens when you get back to campus and the meetings, emails, competing priorities, and day-to-day demands take over?

In this energizing and highly actionable session, nationally recognized time management coach and keynote speaker Anna Dearmon Kornick will help you turn inspiration into implementation.

Using her personality-driven approach to time management, Anna will guide attendees through a practical framework for building their Best Week Ever, creating intentional space to stay engaged with AI, put new ideas into practice, and move important student success initiatives forward without adding more overwhelm.

Attendees will translate what they’ve learned throughout the event into clear priorities, identify where those priorities fit within the reality of their existing workload, and create a game plan for protecting the time and focus needed to make meaningful progress.

You’ll leave with more than notes and good intentions. You’ll leave with a realistic, actionable plan for bringing what you’ve learned back to your institution and making sure the momentum from the past two days continues long after the event ends.

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