JETAA Chapter Leadership Workshop
Congratulations on being a part of your chapter’s leadership team for this upcoming year!
To help your JETAA team get off to a strong start, USJETAA is hosting a Leadership Workshop to help YOU and YOUR TEAM become aligned.
FROM SHARED EXPERIENCE TO SHARED SUPPORT
Designing a Vibrant Vision for Sustainable Leadership
About This Workshop
You came to JET because something in you said yes to challenge, to growth, to showing up somewhere unfamiliar and making it work. That same instinct is probably what brought you into JETAA chapter leadership. But leading a chapter, especially as a volunteer, especially alongside everything else in your life, can sometimes start to feel more like maintenance than momentum. Like you're holding something together rather than building something meaningful.
This workshop is an invitation to step back from the day-to-day and reconnect with why your chapter exists, what you want it to feel like from the inside, and what structures would actually support you and your team in doing this work sustainably — not just for this term, but for the leaders who come after you.
It's two hours. It's participatory. And you'll leave with something concrete.
What We'll Do Together
We start where all good things start in JETAA: with the shared experience that brought us all into this community in the first place. From there, the workshop moves through three connected phases:
Vision & Vibe Lab — Your chapter team will build a shared directional anchor together: a clear sense of where you're headed and what it should feel like to lead and serve there. This becomes your reference point for decisions, priorities, and onboarding future officers.
Naming What Gets in the Way — Using a facilitated process that keeps the focus on systems rather than individuals, you'll surface the structural patterns that slow chapters down — and identify what's actually within your power to change.
Cross-Chapter Exchange — You'll hear what's working across the national network and leave with ideas that other chapters have already tested. No reinventing the wheel.
Every chapter leaves with a shared Vision & Vibe, a clearer picture of what to strengthen or redesign, and 1–3 practical ideas to move forward with.
Who This Is For
This workshop is for incoming and current USJETAA chapter officers in any role — whether this is your first term or you've been carrying your chapter for years. No prior experience with coaching or facilitation needed. Just bring your chapter, your honesty, and whatever you're actually navigating right now.
About Your Facilitator: Valerie Hwang Beck (Hyogo, 2009-2012)
Valerie Hwang Beck is a Vitality & Vision Mentor and founder of The Vibrant Visionary, where she guides individuals and groups through complex life and leadership transitions. She is also an active member of the JETAA Tokyo community, where she currently serves as Communications Officer, and past Social Chair of JETAA SoCal, which means she brings both professional expertise and firsthand experience of the challenges JETAA leaders navigate every day.
Her approach draws on Ayurvedic principles of sustainable energy, coaching methodologies for identity and systems design, and a deep belief that the most effective leadership comes from clarity — not pressure. Her work focuses on helping individuals and leaders build resilience as a foundation for sustainable growth and aligned action.
