Plan your conference experience!

The National Leaders Conference program is designed with your organization’s needs in mind! You’ll hear from keynote speakers eager to encourage and share their leadership experience with you. Want to build your knowledge in a specific area? Choose one of our special tracks, with workshops all focused on a particular topic. Whether you are your group’s media representative, legislative liaison, or board director, you’ll find speakers and sessions meant for you.

Our schedule will continue to be updated, so check this page often! 

Floor Plan

Wednesday | Sept. 20, 2023
TIME
EVENT/SPEAKER
LOCATION
12:00–5:00 PM
Registration

Pritchell Lobby

6:00–8:00 PM
Opening Festivities and Dinner
Recreation Area Pavilion
8:00–9:00 PM
Fire Ring Fellowship and S'mores
Mountain Laurel Fire Ring
 

Thursday | Sept. 21, 2023
TIME
EVENT/SPEAKER
LOCATION
7:00–8:15 AM
Newcomers Breakfast
Mountain Laurel 1
7:15–8:15 AM
Breakfast
Ridgecrest Dining Room
8:00–8:30 AM
Morning Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
8:30–9:30 AM
Worship and Devotions
Daniel Heffington
Phil Tuttle
Johnson Spring Ballroom
9:30–9:45 AM
Coffee Break / Youth Dismissed to Programs
9:45–10:45 AM
General Session - Enterprise Culture
Howard Schmidt
Johnson Spring Ballroom
10:45 AM–12:30 PM
Meet and Greet Exhibitors
Johnson Spring 1
11:00–11:30 AM
Midday Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
11:00 AM–12:00 PM
HSLDA Ambassador Informational Meeting
Johnson Spring 4BD
12:30–2:00 PM
Lunch
HSLDA Compassion Grants Program
Johnson Spring Ballroom
2:15–3:30 PM
Finding and Equipping Mission-Minded Organizational Leaders
LaNissir James
Johnson Spring 3AC
Leading Homeschooling: Then, Now, and Future
Darren Jones
Johnson Spring 3BD
Fundraising 101
Debbie DiVirgilio
Johnson Spring 4AC
Educational Arks: Privately Funded Homeschool Resource Centers and the Future of Homeschooling
Heidi St. John
Johnson Spring 4BD
3:30–4:00 PM
Coffee Break
4:00–5:15 PM
General Session - Leadership and Your Brand
Howard Schmidt
Johnson Spring Ballroom
5:30–6:30 PM
Dinner
Ridgecrest Dining Room
9:00–9:30 PM
Evening Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC

Friday | Sept. 22, 2023
TIME
EVENT/SPEAKER
LOCATION
7:15–8:15 AM
Breakfast
Ridgecrest Dining Room
8:00–8:30 AM
Morning Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
8:30–9:30 AM
Worship and Devotions
Daniel Heffington
Phil Tuttle
Johnson Spring Ballroom
9:30–9:45 AM
Coffee Break / Youth Dismissed to Programs
9:45–10:45 AM
General Session - Leadership that Shapes: From Family Foundations to Global Impact
Chris Butler
Johnson Spring Ballroom
10:45 AM–12:00 PM
Meet and Greet Exhibitors
Johnson Spring 1
11:00–11:30 AM
Midday Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
12:00–1:00 PM
Lunch
Ridgecrest Dining Room

1:00–5:30 PM

Free Afternoon and Evening / Optional Activities
5:30–6:30 PM
Dinner
Ridgecrest Dining Room
9:00–9:30 PM
Evening Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC

Saturday | Sept. 23, 2023

 
TIME
EVENT/SPEAKER
LOCATION
7:15–8:15 AM
Breakfast
Ridgecrest Dining Room
8:00–8:30 AM
Morning Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
8:30–9:30 AM
Worship and Devotions
Daniel Heffington
Phil Tuttle
Johnson Spring Ballroom
9:30–9:45 AM
Coffee Break / Youth Dismissed to Programs
9:45–10:45 AM
State of the Nation
Johnson Spring Ballroom
10:45 AM–12:30 PM
Meet and Greet Exhibitors
Johnson Spring 1
11:00–11:30 AM
Midday Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC
12:30–2:30 PM
Ladies' Luncheon
Aziza Butler
Johnson Spring Ballroom
Men's Huddle
Howard Schmidt
Recreation Area Pavilion 
2:45–4:00 PM
Strategy and Sustained Growth
Howard Schmidt
Johnson Spring 3AC
Lessons We're Learning from Purposeful Outreach
Dena Bless, Sue Manning, Anne Miller, Irene Tucker, Zan Tyler, Luz Velázquez
Johnson Spring 3BD
Maximizing the Fall Giving Season
Debbie DiVirgilio
Johnson Spring 4AC
Global Forces That Threaten Homeschool Freedom in the United States
Kevin Boden
Johnson Spring 4BD
4:00–6:00 PM
Free Time
6:00–8:00 PM
Closing Banquet
Jim Mason
Johnson Spring Ballroom
9:00–9:30 PM
Evening Prayer
Johnson Spring 5AC

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