Jillian Maas Backman will be presenting an Educational Session at Elon University’s 2015 conference, INTERSECT: Diversity and Leadership being held November 13 & 14, 2015 at 100 Campus Drive, Elon, NC. Elon University’s Center for Leadership and The Center for Race, Ethnicity and Diversity Education have collaborated to provide attendees with an unprecedented look at the disciplines of diversity, leadership, and the cross-sections of the two. Backman’s interactive session, Value-Based Decision Making Augmented with Intuition = Successful Leadership, is a part of her “Get the Edge!” series where students explore a leadership style that helps identify ways to value both the intellectual side as well as the intuitive side to better quantify their decision-making and leadership processes. One of the untapped niche markets in leadership development is the balance of logic and intellectual knowledge with internal reasoning. Backman has presented at her alma mater, Bethany College, Highland Community College, the University of Wisconsin Whitewater campuses as well as several Greek society events. She is an innovator in the realm of creating personal paradigm shifts, integrating established methods of leadership development and …