Opening Plenary Session
2026 Convocation Survey: Report of Findings and Roundtable Discussion
Workshops
- School Choice and the New Federal Legislation and the Impact on Catholic Schools
- Implementing Digital Transformation: Onboarding and Launching New Technology Across Your Diocese
- Deploying Technology in Dioceses: A Roundtable
- Employment and Abuse Incidents/Claims and New Ways of Thinking
- Priest Benefits and Their Care (Medicare, Auto, Etc. ) Roundtable
- Casualty as a Risk to Finance: Historical Perspective, Exposures, Capacity, Vehicles (Captives, Parametics), Cost and Limits as Targets
- At the Threshold of Death, the Church Gives Life
- Faith and the Financial Markets: Balancing Risk, Return and Responsibility for Catholic Dioceses
- Before the First Guest Arrives: Practical Security and Preparedness Insights Across Parish and School Operations
- Diocesan Appraisal Data and the Impact Importance of Integration With your RMIS Program
- New Insights on Manage WC Claims: Nurse Triage Case Study
- Implementing Effective Risk Management at Scale: A Diocesan Case Study
- Reinventing Your 403B Employee Offering
- Innovative Strategies to Reduce Your Pension Plan Liabilities and Transferring Risk
- Beyond Compliance: Leveraging Tech and Data to Build Safer, More Affordable Child‑Safe Environments
Closing Plenary led by Leadership Roundtable
Many of us are familiar with Leadership Roundtable, an organization of lay, religious and clergy that promotes best practices and accountability in the management, finances, communications and human resource development of the Catholic Church in the US.
Structural Reform (Deanery Leadership) and Cultural Transformation (Department Excellence) Work Together To Create Thriving Dioceses!
Shared governance only works when support functions shift from gatekeepers to enablers.
Keynote speakers
As managing partner at Leadership Roundtable for almost two years, Kathleen works with dioceses that support our communities. Temporal administration is the focus of Leadership Roundtable's outreach over the past 20+ years.
Before joining Leadership Roundtable's, Kathleen held several interesting positions, including superintendent of the Partnership Schools and senior visiting fellow for almost 12 years at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Before that, she was a senior advisor, Policy and Instruction for The College Board. Noteworthy as well was her time as director of Teacher and Principal Professional Development and Recruitment in the Archdiocese of Washington.
As a senior leadership director at Leadership Roundtablem Father Kevin draws on his parish and business experience every day. A veteran priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, he brings tremendous pastoral and professional experience, including chief financial officer at Medifacts, LTD, and compliance associate to the General Counsel at Neuberger Beman. He hold a Doctor of Ministry, Operational Leadership and Theology as well as an MBA Strategic Management and Finance.
According to a 2021 article about Father Kevin in Catholic Standard, a friend invited him to attend Mass at the parish on Purdue's campus when Father Kevin was working on his MBA. He hadn't been to mass for about a decade. The article quotes Father Kevin: "I came to the priesthood after a career in business and believed that the Lord called me out of that career for a specific purpose. I have been able to use my leadership experiences in various ways in the last 26 years (as a priest), and now I believe my transition to Leadership Roundtable is a natural progression of my vocation."