Coping with New Directions: Developing a Growth Mindset

To close the seminar, Lori Carlin, Chief Commercial Officer at Delta Think, will lead attendees in an interactive workshop on managing change and developing professional resiliency. This session will offer everyone a chance to reflect on how we cope with change and address the skills and tools to help mitigate the physical and emotional impacts of stress wrought by these constant cycles of disruption and change. We will begin with a short presentation, break out into smaller discussion groups, and conclude with a reflection exercise. This workshop is designed to foster a growth mindset and to support a healthy, resilient SSP community.

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Publication Date

2023 | October

New Directions 2023 | Navigating the Shifting Sands

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We are living through a time of accelerating change and transformation, where the landscape of scholarly publishing is undergoing tectonic shifts in how we operate, how we communicate, and where we add value to the research and learning lifecycles. Like all organizations dedicated to the business of information and data, content and service providers in our industry are experiencing challenges brought on by open access mandates, ongoing institutional budget crises, technological revolutions, and more. The 2023 New Directions Seminar will focus on how those working in scholarly communications manage commercial and cultural disruptions. Where are the sands shifting most dramatically? How are content and service providers responding to these disruptions? What are the priorities and what is being left behind? What tools and methods do we need to successfully weather these disruptive changes? Framework Viewed through the lens of a typical research workflow, we can observe disruptions and systemic changes underway at every step along the journey. The 2023 New Directions seminar will be designed to address where and how the “sands” are shifting at each junction of the scholarly communications lifecycle. Sessions will address topics from how changing funder mandates and AI tools are impacting researcher practices to open peer review, data sharing, and more. We hope to close the session with a change management workshop-style session designed to support resiliency in publishing professionals.

Lori Carlin

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Chief Commercial Officer & Senior Consultant, Delta Think Inc

With more than twenty-five years of experience in society publishing and association management, Lori Carlin is a recognized expert in customer insight, market research, marketing strategy, and digital product development. Lori is currently the CCO and Senior Consultant at Delta Think, Inc., and has also held senior positions in Marketing, Sales, Online Content Delivery, and Subscriber/Member Services for a number of scholarly publishers and societies. As CCO, Lori is responsible for business development/new business opportunities and partnerships, as well as corporate marketing and corporate communications for Delta Think. On the consulting side, Lori actively engages with clients to support their needs in all areas, with a special emphasis on business strategy and analysis, customer insight, and market research and strategy implementing customer insight methodologies and building effective strategies for publishing programs and products, and has helped professional societies and corporations develop and deliver publishing products that best meet and exceed customer needs. She is also very active in the publishing industry, currently serving as SSP Annual Meeting Co-Chair, and held previous positions as a SSP Board Member, as well as numerous committee chair and member positions for SSP, ASAE, and PSP.