District Conference

Friday AM - Golf Tournament (TBD)

5:00 PM - 6:00 PM. - Major Donor Reception (Invitation only)

6:00 PM    Welcome Reception - All Attendees

 Head downtown Iowa Falls to listen to the Pork Tornados.  (There is a $25 entry fee for the Pork Tornados)

 

 

7:30 AM - 8:30 AM    Registration and Breakfast

8:00 AM    Welcome

8:45 AM – 9:15 AM    Felicia Mycyk – Amplifying your Strengths

 

9:15 AM – 9:45 AM  Kathy Fahy – How we can use the Internet to make our Clubs successful

 

 

10:00 AM – 10:30 AM – Barb Prather – Northeast Iowa Food Bank – Food Insecurity Across the State and Nation

 

10:30 AM - 12:00 PM - Service Project/gratitude walk

 

 

12:25 PM - 1:00 PM - Rotary Youth Exchange, Youth Programs, and Club Awards/Recognition

 

1:30  PM – 2:00 P.M. Richard Kyte -  Finding your Third Place

 

2:00 PM -  2:45 PM   Club Service Projects

 

2:45 PM – Felicia Mycyk – Go set the World on Fire

 

3:15 PM   Installation of District Governor Jeff Halverson

 

 

3:30 PM-4:20 PM    Visit Iowa Falls

 

4:20 PM - 5:15 PM    Albright’s Bluff - 119 Main. Very limited parking. Park across the street in the City Parking Lot.

 

6:00 PM    Kentucky Derby

Speaker Bios:

Felicia Mycyk is a Leadership Development Speaker, Coach, and Author who specializes in helping individuals, teams, and organizations amplify their leadership skills through her signature "Amplify the Leader Within"® programs.

 

Using her proprietary D.E.C.I.D.E. Self Leadership™ process and fundamental sport coaching techniques, Felicia empowers people to gain clarity, build confidence in decision-making, and lead themselves and others effectively.

 

She is a Certified Working Genius Facilitator, author of "Unnegotiated Self," and currently serves as Rotary District Governor (2025-2026) for District 7305.

 

With her unique ability to connect and energize audiences, Felicia delivers encouragement, accountability, and actionable insights that inspire real-world results.

 

Barbara Prather
Executive Director, Northeast Iowa Food Bank

Barbara came to Waterloo in the summer of 1999 to assume the position of Executive Director at the Northeast Iowa Food Bank.  Since taking over as Director, the Food Bank has added Kids Café, the BackPack program, Mobile Food Pantries, Summer Feeding, the Elderly Nutrition Program and a Community Garden. Under her leadership, in 2013 the Food Bank built a new $6.5 million facility, paid for with predominately private funding sources. In FY 2019, the Food Bank distributed more food than ever before, topping nearly 9 million pounds of food to member agencies, programs and other food banks. Prior to taking this position she worked for seven years at the Capital Area Food Bank in Washington DC.  

 

Prather grew up in Northwestern Minnesota and received a B.A. in Business Administration from Concordia College Moorhead, MN in 1987. In May, 1998 she received her Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management from George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. Barbara serves on the boards of Met Transit, National Leadership Alliance at UNI, Wartburg’s Social Work Advisory Council and Feeding America’s National Council.

 

Over the years, she has been honored both locally and nationally with leadership awards from the Community, Feeding America and Concordia College. She and her family live in Hudson, IA.

 

 

2025 Zones 25B & 29 Institute Chair

Past District Governor 2014-15

 

Kathryn Fahy has been a Rotarian since 2006 and is a member and Past President of the Iowa Great Lakes Rotary Club in Spirit Lake, Iowa. She is a former Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar (1997 Canberra, Australia) and is a Major Donor, Paul Harris Society and Bequest Society member. Kathy has served on the District 5970 Youth Exchange Committee, District Fellowship Committee, Alumni Committee and Ambassadorial Scholars Committee.  She was selected in September 2014 as one of 32 young professionals in the United States to attend the inaugural Rotary Young Professional Summit in Chicago. From that experience, Kathy was part of the birth of Rollin’ with Rotary – an endeavor to bring attention to local and international needs by doing massive Random Acts of Kindness and creating large scale community service projects. In October 2015, she was invited back to Chicago to be a part of the Rotary Young Professionals Advisory Council. 

 

Following the completion of her year as District Governor of Rotary District 5970 (2014-15), she was the Zone 28 Rotary Coordinator (2016-17), Zone 29 Rotary Public Image Coordinator (2017-20), a Training Leader at Rotary International Assembly (2019-20), and International Assembly Seminar Trainer (2021-23). She also held the position of Marketing Chair for HANWASH (Haiti National Clean Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Initiative) from 2020-2022. Kathy was also a member of the 2024 Singapore Convention Committee (serving as Promotions Team Chair), a WASH Major Gifts Initiative Committee, and the co-chair of the Rotary International Communications Committee. Kathy recently completed serving as the chair of the 2025 Zones 25B & 29 Institute in Prior Lake, Minnesota.

 

Kathy has owned and operated K Brand Marketing, a marketing consulting business, since 2006. In addition to managing investors and operators for Farmland Opportunity, LLC, she is an active partner in her family grain farm (DoKare Farms) in north central Iowa and frequently drives the tractor during the planting and harvest seasons. 

 

Richard Kyte is Director of the D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership and Endowed Professor of Ethics at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he teaches a variety of courses dealing with ethical issues in business, health care, law, politics, and the environment. He has published and lectured widely on topics related to justice, forgiveness, virtue, and the meaning of life.

 

After growing up in Frazee, a small town in northwestern Minnesota, Richard attended Hamline University where he earned a B.A. in philosophy. He then went on to graduate school, obtaining a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994. Since then he has taught at several colleges and universities including Pikes Peak Community College in Colorado Springs, Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Christian Brothers University in Memphis, Tennessee.

 

He is the author of several books and writes a regular column for the La Crosse Tribune titled "The Ethical Life."

Rick is an active member of the First Presbyterian Church and the Downtown Rotary Club of La Crosse.  He serves on numerous boards, including the Editorial Board of the La Crosse Tribune, the La Crosse Community Foundation, and the Coulee Region Chapter of Trout Unlimited.