Call for Speakers for NACPA 2025 Breakout Sessions

NACPA Convocation 2025 Call for Breakout Sessions
Share your specific Church HR knowledge and experience
with NACPA members at NACPA Convocation 2025.

When: 
Sunday, April 27 
Monday, April 28
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
(All sessions will be held Mon & Tue)

Where:
Salt Lake City Marriott City Center
220 South State Street
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
Hotel Block Rate $192/night (available Sep 1) Speakers are responsible for booking their own hotel rooms.

Speaker Registration $675 (available Sep 1) All speakers are expected to register for NACPA 2025 themselves and are responsible for booking their own hotel arrangements when the room block is released in the fall. If your session is chosen, you will be sent a Speaker Code in order to register at this special rate.

The breakout speaker schedule for NACPA 2025 will run from Monday, April 28, at 11 AM, local time - Tuesday, April 29, at 3 PM. All breakout sessions for 2025 will run a total of 1 HR and 30 Minutes, the final 15 - 20 minutes of that time can be used for Q&A/discussion if needed.


 

2025 Requested Session Topics 

NACPA 2025 will focus on Compassion for others and the self. While we encourage proposals of any nature that would be of sincere interest and benefit to those who work with human resources responsibilities within the Catholic Church, our members have singled out the following timely and important topics as specific needs:

  • AI in the Workplace
  • Pay Equity
  • Managing Payroll (especially when moving employees from exempt to non-exempt and salary to hourly)
  • Addressing the challenges of managing today's employees (who hold a variety of sensibilities surrounding the stress of the world/workplace, who also have varying/new expectations of reasonable work structure and/or work-loads)
  • Navigating new laws from a Catholic Worldview
  • DOL Updates
  • DEI in the world of the Church
  • Team Building
  • Continuing Managing Remote Staff

Click here for the Schedule at a Glance from the 2024 Convocation Program


Breakout Speaker Submission Process and Requirements

Past NACPA Convocation speakers are persons who work within or have specific knowledge of Church Human Resources or secular Human Resource fields.

If you are from an HR vendor new to NACPA, please site the Arch/diocesan and or Church communities which you have worked with as references within the submission form. Though the presentation may be relevant to your organization/practices, those presenting from a vendor/HR services organization are not allowed to utilize the presentation as an advertisement of your services

Members and Non-Members of NACPA are welcome to submit speaking proposals on issues and topics that you have traversed and now wish to impart your trials and successes with your fellow community.

Speakers will be notified by October 1, 2024.


Presentation Format and Requirements

All breakout sessions for 2025 will run a total of 1 HR and 30 Minutes, the final 15 - 20 minutes of that time can be used for Q&A/discussion if needed.

Rooms will be set up with classroom-like seating, but presentations can include interactive participation with the attendees and/or group breakouts if needed and should include time for Q&A/discussion.

Rooms will be setup with projectors able to connect with your laptop/tablet a podium and a head speaker table (Speakers are required to bring their own device with which to present from). Physical handouts and related resources are not necessary but most appreciated. The main NACPA office cannot print and bring speaker handouts. Please print and bring before you travel. We cannot guarantee that there will be a printer onsite.  We will ask for a digital copy of any of your materials to be displayed on an Attendee Only Speaker Material webpage as soon as convocation concludes.

Speakers are welcome to present with a co-speaker. If you would like to present as a panel and have co-panelists in mind, please include this information in your submission. If you do not have co-panelists in mind, please reflect that and we will see if there are others who would like to present on the panel. 

Please complete the 2025 Session Proposal Form to be considered:

NACPA 2025 Breakout Session Speaker Proposal Portal