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KnowledgeLab 2025

Session Title: Amazing Lab Race 2025: Scottsdale, AZ – Building a High-Value Lab: Leveraging the Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox to Win Leadership Investment

Date: Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 4pm-5:30pm

Target Audience: Emerging and Seasoned Leaders

Past Events

ASCP 2024 Annual Meeting


“Blood Born Agents” works on Challenge #2 (about “People & Culture”) at Cloud Gate (The Bean).

Teams work on Challenge #3 (about how to use “Quality” to advocate for your laboratory’s needs) at Crown Fountain.

Team “River Wild” is back for redemption in the Amazing Lab Race: Chicago, taking on Challenge #3!

Team “Path Lab Partners” takes home the medal at the Amazing Lab Race: Chicago after competing live in front of ASCP CEO, Dr. Blair Holladay!

KnowledgeLab 2024


The four teams competing in the inaugural Amazing Lab Race pose with Christy Nickel (far right) and Aaron Odegard (far left), hosts (facilitators) for the interactive educational session that highlighted how tools from the Negotiation and Advocacy Toolbox can be used to solve laboratory advocacy scenarios.

Winners of ASCP’s first Amazing Lab Race – “Texas Threat” (represented by Stephanie Whitehead and Brittany Teeter) – stand posing with their trophy (and bragging rights)!

“River Wild” (represented by team members Alfonzo Ortiz and Charles McDonald) accepts the challenge for stop 2 at the Briscoe Western Art Museum from race judge Joe Keary. In the second challenge, teams had to create a social media post that promotes the role of financial stewardship in advocating for your laboratory. Teams applied resources from Pillar 4 (Lab Finance) of the ASCP Negotiation & Advocacy Toolbox to address this challenge.

The 4 ASCP Amazing Lab Race competing teams pose with the 3 judges and 2 hosts (facilitators) at the Finish Line of the inaugural race event. The Amazing Lab Race: San Antonio was the general session of ASCP’s KnowledgeLab 2024 conference in San Antonio, TX on April 30, 2024.

Host (facilitator) Aaron Odegard poses in front of three competing teams in the inaugural Amazing Lab Race, on the San Antonio Riverwalk. This interactive event engaged lab leaders to apply tools and resources from the ASCP Negotiation and Advocacy Toolbox to scenarios posed at 3 challenge stops.

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