Votes & Vision: Spring General Assembly 2025

Come together with students and advisors from across the state for our annual Spring General Assembly! Participate in workshops that focus on building your leadership, professional, and advocacy skills; connect with student senate leaders, other advisors, and vote for incoming LeadMN leadership.

April 11- 12, 2025 Courtyard Marriott 404 West St. Germain Street St. Cloud, MN 56301

Registration for Votes & Vision: Spring General Assembly is free! We have a limit of 150 attendees for this event. Registration is open until April 4th or capacity, whichever comes first.

While the event registration is free, the cost of the hotel rooms and getting to the event is not covered by LeadMN but the responsibility of individual attendees.

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Courtyard Marriott in St. Cloud
404 West St. Germain Street, St. Cloud, MN, 56301

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Votes & Vision Schedule

Over the course of two days students and advisors can participate in workshops, voting, and our awards ceremony!

Friday, April 11th

4:00pm: Registration begins

Free headshots available!

Grab a snack and connect with fellow students

5:00pm – 5:45pm: LeadMN Student Leader panel

6:00pm – 6:45pm: Presidents Group and Senators Group Meetings

7:00pm: Dinner and Award Presentations

Saturday, April 12th

8:00am: Breakfast

8:30am – 9:15am: Breakout session 1

9:30am – 10:15am: Breakout session 2

10:30am – 11:15am: Breakout session 3

11:30am – 12:45pm: Lunch and keynote speaker

1:00pm – 1:45pm: Breakout session 4

2:00pm – 3:00pm: LeadMN leadership elections

3:00pm – 3:30pm: Closing remarks, snacks, and networking activity

Votes and Vision Information

Breakout Sessions

Check out the list of breakout sessions offered on Saturday, April 12th! Whether you want to get workforce ready, learn to be an advocate, grow into a better leader, or develop communication skills, there’s plenty of amazing workshops available!

Public Speaking
Critical Thinking
Resume Writing
How to Transfer Credits
Successful Interview Tips & Mock Interviews
Event Planning

Club Budget Planning
Leadership Transition
Advocating for Yourself in the Workplace
Building Your LinkedIn Profile
Advocacy 201

Keynote Speaker

Join us in welcoming keynote speaker Tabitha Montgomery, who will be sharing her knowledge and experience to help us improve and develop our skills in Communicating with Confidence.

For more than twenty years, Tabitha Montgomery continues to approach and center her work by demonstrating a deep respect for people, an aptitude for eliciting honest reflection, and the ability to foster impactful collaboration with joy.

Within a for-profit context, she has led marketing functions, lines of business, and teams focused on strategic innovation for several Fortune 500 companies including Target and Best Buy. She actively consults on a range of projects and initiatives, while serving as the Executive Director for the Powderhorn Park Neighborhood Association (PPNA) and Co-Executive Director for the Flourish Placemaking Collective in Minneapolis.

Through these various leadership roles, she has amassed a broad, strategic, and tactical skill set that allows her to richly contribute to process, policy, governance, and program cultivation within a private and public context.

Tabitha has spent more than two decades tapping into her gifts of management, communication, and visioning to serve a wide array of people, businesses, and organizations.