Our 2025 theme:
United in Purpose: Cultivating Belonging, Trust, and a Shared Vision
Thursday, May 15, 2025
8:30 am - 4:00 pm
Registration is open and space is filling up! Register today!
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Make check payable to: Serving with a Purpose
Mail check to:
Corona Public Library 650 S. Main St Corona CA 92882 Att: Serving
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2025 CONFERENCE THEME
United in Purpose: Cultivating Belonging, Trust, and a Shared Vision
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In a world torn apart by division and loneliness...
What if the secret to happiness & harmony lies in one simple concept?
Discover how cultivating belonging can unlock your potential and transform social connections. Learn from Stanford University professor's groundbreaking research on creating connection and bridging divides. You will learn how this knowledge can benefit your organization and it's members and staff.
Get ready for a life-changing event!
Your registration will include a gourmet continental breakfast, catered sit-down lunch and conference materials.
Please consider supporting this conference by becoming a "Table Sponsor". By doing so, you are displaying that you value libraries and the people who advocate for them. Each year we try to keep registration prices as low as possible and your sponsorship assists us with this priority. The price of the Table Sponsorship is $900 and includes 8 registrations, special acknowledgement in conference PR, agenda and program, 8 copies of our author’s newest novel, and premium table placement in main conference area. Please look for the special ticket during purchasing.
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SPEAKERS
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Geoffrey L. Cohen is a Professor of Psychology and the James G. March Professor of Organizational Studies in Education and Business at Stanford University. He is a social psychologist by training and received his PHD at Stanford and his BA at Cornell.
Professor Cohen’s research examines the processes that shape people’s sense of belonging and self-concept, and the role that these processes play in various social problems. He has studied the big and small threats to belonging and self-integrity that people encounter in school, work, health care settings, politics, communities, and relationships. He and others have developed concrete, science-backed strategies to create more welcoming spaces for people from all walks of life. He believes that the development of psychological theory depends not just on descriptive and observational research but on theory-driven intervention. He has long been inspired by Kurt Lewin’s quip, “The best way to understand something is to try to change it.”
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William Kent Krueger
Raised in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, William Kent Krueger briefly attended Stanford University—before being kicked out for radical activities. After that, he logged timber, worked construction, tried his hand at freelance journalism, and eventually ended up researching child development at the University of Minnesota. He’s been married for more than fifty years to a marvelous woman who is a retired attorney. He makes his home in St. Paul, a city he dearly loves.
Krueger writes a mystery series set in the north woods of Minnesota. His protagonist is Cork O’Connor, the former sheriff of Tamarack County and a man of mixed heritage—part Irish and part Ojibwe. His work has received a number of awards, including the Minnesota Book Award, the Loft-McKnight Fiction Award, the Anthony Award, the Barry Award, the Dilys Award, and the Friends of American Writers Prize. His last thirteen novels were all New York Times bestsellers.
Ordinary Grace, his stand-alone novel published in 2013, received the Edgar Award, given by the Mystery Writers of America in recognition for the best novel published in that year. The companion novel, This Tender Land, was published in September 2019 and spent nearly six months on the New York Times bestseller list. His most recent stand-alone, The River We Remember, published in 2023, was featured on many best-of-the-year lists, as well as receiving an Edgar Award nomination for Best Novel.
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CONFERENCE
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SCHEDULE
(Subject to Change)
AM
8:00
Check In
Continental Breakfast
8:30
Welcome
9:15
Keynote Speaker:
Geoffrey Cohen, Q and A and Book Signing
PM
12:00
Sit-down catered lunch
01:15
TBA
02:00
Break
10:30
Break
02:20
Breakout Sessions
10:45
Author William Kent Krueger
followed by Q and A
and Book Signing
03:30
Closing Session
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
INFORMATION
ACCOMMODATIONS
Holiday Inn Ontario Airport
2155 E. Convention Center Way
​$149 for King bed $159 for two Queen beds
Includes breakfast
To make a reservation on 909-212-8000 under Serving with a Purpose. You will then tell them the three-letter group code which is SWP
Last day to reserve a room is April 23
PARKING
Ontario Convention Center
has ample parking available.
Conference attendees receive FREE parking!
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