Creating Connection Archives - Aluminati Network Group https://www.new.aluminati.net/category/creating-connection/ Fri, 11 Sep 2026 10:26:12 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Creating Connection Webinar: Community Building Without Breaking the Bank https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-community-building-without-breaking-the-bank/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-community-building-without-breaking-the-bank/#respond Wed, 05 Jul 2023 14:03:34 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=16405 Creating Connection Webinar Community Building Without Breaking the Bank A strong community will take a different shape depending on your own organisation or institution's needs, values, and resources. There isn’t one singular way to build and nurture a community, just like there is not one singular version of a healthy community. Understanding [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar

Community Building Without Breaking the Bank

A strong community will take a different shape depending on your own organisation or institution’s needs, values, and resources.

There isn’t one singular way to build and nurture a community, just like there is not one singular version of a healthy community.

Understanding the human aspect of building an online community will stand you in good stead to deliver your goals within budget and with a highly engaged and motivated community.

The Speakers

Andrea Legnani, President of Enterprises – Aluminati

Andrea Legnani is the President of Aluminati Enterprises, helping companies build and manage their alumni networks to drive engagement, increase the hiring of boomerang employees, and grow the business.

Maria Gutierrez – Strategic Engagement Consultant

Maria has worked in Higher Education since 2009. She started as a Project Manager in the Boston University Community Service Centre, where she partnered with Harvard’s community service initiatives. She then went on to pursue a Master’s in International Business from Hult International Business School, which further developed her expertise in project management, volunteer management and stakeholder engagement.

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How to stay engaged with your organisation’s alumni for positive change. https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-stay-engaged-with-your-organisations-alumni-for-positive-change/ https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-stay-engaged-with-your-organisations-alumni-for-positive-change/#respond Fri, 12 May 2023 15:05:18 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=16205 Creating Connection Webinar Save money, increase business, and improve your brand reputation. How to stay engaged with your organisation's alumni for positive change. Are your employees leaving more quickly (or often) than they used to in the past? Corporate culture is changing.  Employees no longer stay in one role for 20 years [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar

Save money, increase business, and improve your brand reputation.

How to stay engaged with your organisation’s alumni for positive change.

Are your employees leaving more quickly (or often) than they used to in the past?

Corporate culture is changing.  Employees no longer stay in one role for 20 years and they move from company to company a lot more.

If you’re not engaging with your organization’s alumni already, you should be, and fast.

Alumni can be invaluable to your company in three ways

  • They act as brand ambassadors
  • They bring in business either directly or through referrals
  • Rehiring alumni can save your company money

Find out how to:

  • Engage with your alumni
  • Save money by rehiring
  • Make more business
  • Be seen as a brand that cares about its staff

The world is changing, make sure you stay ahead of the curve.

The Speaker

Andrea Legnani, President of Enterprises – Aluminati

Andrea Legnani is the President of Aluminati Enterprises, helping companies build and manage their alumni networks to drive engagement, increase the hiring of boomerang employees, and grow the business.

 

He joined the company in 2023 after a 20+ year career at Citi where he spent his first 9 years as Public Affairs Officer in Europe before investing the next 11 years in the US, building and managing the Citi Alumni Network as Global Head of Alumni Relations. In this position, he became recognized as one of the world’s leading experts in Corporate Alumni Networks.

 

Andrea also teaches Strategic and Business Communication at Columbia University, NYU – Stern School of Business, and CUNY – Baruch College – Zicklin School of Business. He mentors early-stage startups in collaboration with several NYC-based Accelerators.

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Creating Connection Webinar: Developing Strategic Alumni Relationship Programmes https://www.aluminati.net/developing-strategic-alumni-relationship-programmes/ https://www.aluminati.net/developing-strategic-alumni-relationship-programmes/#respond Tue, 04 Apr 2023 14:34:50 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=16141 Creating Connection Webinar Developing Strategic Alumni Relationship Programmes Thursday 27th April 2023 – 3pm UK Join us for a live Q&A with Martine Davies, Founder and Director of Strategic Relationships & Networks Ltd, an independent consultancy firm that supports organisations to create and deliver mutually beneficial community and alumni networks. Learn new [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar

Developing Strategic Alumni Relationship Programmes

Thursday 27th April 2023 – 3pm UK

Join us for a live Q&A with Martine Davies, Founder and Director of Strategic Relationships & Networks Ltd, an independent consultancy firm that supports organisations to create and deliver mutually beneficial community and alumni networks.

Learn new strategies for developing and enhancing your own alumni programmes.

The Speaker

Martine Davies

Founder & Director

Strategic Relationships & Networks Ltd

Martine has spent most part of her working life developing and delivering strategic relationship programmes and she has a keen focus on corporate and institutional alumni programmes. She is passionate about developing networks which create value for the individuals in the network and provide real results in terms of return on investment for organisations.

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Creating Connection Webinar: Elevating Career Development within your Campus Culture https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-elevating-career-development-within-your-campus-culture/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-elevating-career-development-within-your-campus-culture/#respond Wed, 25 Jan 2023 11:58:02 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=15545 Creating Connection Webinar Elevating Career Development within your Campus Culture Thursday 23rd March 2023 – 3pm UK This presentation will provide an overview of how Clarion University elevated the career centre within their campus culture before integration, while simultaneously developing a new career readiness culture for PennWest by leveraging best practices from [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar

Elevating Career Development within your Campus Culture

Thursday 23rd March 2023 – 3pm UK

This presentation will provide an overview of how Clarion University elevated the career centre within their campus culture before integration, while simultaneously developing a new career readiness culture for PennWest by leveraging best practices from all three legacy campuses. The ideas shared will allow practitioners to identify strategies to aid in elevating career centres regardless of organizational alignment or location.

Learning Objectives:

  1. Identify tactics to engage stakeholders in career development conversations and initiatives
  2. Identify strategies to increase student engagement with career development
  3. Ability to assess your campuses career readiness culture

The Speaker

Dr. Josh Domitrovich

Executive Director of the Center for Career and Professional Development

Pennsylvania Western University

Josh is a first-generation college student and military veteran with ten years of higher education experience, specializing in career coaching, mentoring programs and software, gamification techniques, innovation, and data assessment. As the inaugural Executive Director of the newly integrated PennWest University career centre, he practices authentic and servant leadership strategies to support his team across three geographically separated career centres and the career readiness of 14,000 students using a shared service model.

As a NACE-certified career coach, Josh has presented his work to national and international audiences and recently published his dissertation titled, “Student Engagement: A Quantitative Investigation into Gamification’s Impact on Student Perceptions to Use Career Services”. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration specializing in Human Resource Management and an MBA from the Clarion University of Pennsylvania and a Doctorate of Education in Administration and Leadership from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

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Creating Connection Webinar: How to Power Up Your Community, Offline https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-power-up-your-community/ https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-power-up-your-community/#respond Thu, 19 Jan 2023 10:25:29 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=15464 Creating Connection Webinar Creating Connection Webinar: How to Power Up Your Community, Offline Tuesday 28th February 2023 – 3 pm UK Online communities are what they are – communities whose primary interaction source happens in the digital online space. But with many people feeling overstimulated and looking towards digital minimalism, online communities [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar: How to Power Up Your Community, Offline

Tuesday 28th February 2023 – 3 pm UK

Online communities are what they are – communities whose primary interaction source happens in the digital online space. But with many people feeling overstimulated and looking towards digital minimalism, online communities can play a very important role in kick-starting and rejuvenating your offline engagement. Join Johana and Maria as they will uncover some of the ways in which both your online and offline engagement opportunities work hand in hand to create a rounded user experience.

The Speakers

Johana Canda-Fiserova – Strategic Engagement Consultant

Johana has extensive advancement experience as she has worked in the higher education sector both in the USA and the UK for the last 14 years managing AR teams, launching community networks, and advising universities in engagement and fundraising.

Maria Gutierrez – Strategic Engagement Consultant

Maria has worked in Higher Education since 2009. She started as a Project Manager in the Boston University Community Service Centre, where she partnered with Harvard’s community service initiatives. She then went on to pursue a Master’s in International Business from Hult International Business School, which further developed her expertise in project management, volunteer management and stakeholder engagement.

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Creating Connection Webinar – How To Recruit and Retain Your New Community Users https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-recruit-community-users/ https://www.aluminati.net/how-to-recruit-community-users/#respond Tue, 11 Oct 2022 09:16:21 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=14505 They say a first impression goes a long way! In this session, Johana and Maria will equip you with some helpful tools on how to recruit and leave a lasting impression on your new users. Maria has worked in Higher Education since 2009. She started as a Project Manager in the Boston [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar – A Networking Mindset for the Next Generation: Alumni Networks for Impact https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-a-networking-mindset-for-the-next-generation-alumni-networks-for-impact/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-a-networking-mindset-for-the-next-generation-alumni-networks-for-impact/#respond Mon, 05 Sep 2022 14:25:59 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=13962 Creating Connection Webinar A Networking Mindset for the Next Generation: Alumni Networks for Impact How has networking changed over the past five years? How can institutions encourage and leverage a networking mindset (and why?)? This energetic and interactive webinar is an opportunity to explore how to build networking skills for alumni, with a [...]

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Creating Connection Webinar

A Networking Mindset for the Next Generation: Alumni Networks for Impact

How has networking changed over the past five years? How can institutions encourage and leverage a networking mindset (and why?)?

This energetic and interactive webinar is an opportunity to explore how to build networking skills for alumni, with a focus on recent grads. Networking to get a job isn’t enough anymore.

This webinar will show you how to build a networking mindset for your alumni to build a meaningful career and a life with social impact. As universities and companies focus on Impact Rankings and sustainability, we can support our alumni to build impact into their career growth.

The Speaker

Dr Maria Gallo is one of the world’s leading experts on alumni engagement and the author of The Alumni Way: Building Lifelong Value from Your University Investment. After 20 years in higher education in Ireland and Canada, Maria founded The Alumni Way  offering energetic workshops, masterclasses, and speaking engagements for students, alumni, and alumni/career professionals to build alumni inspiration and impact. Maria is also a Visiting Research Fellow at Trinity Business School- Trinity College Dublin. Alongside her academic publications, Maria’s work is featured in her TEDx  and University Business, Roostervane and University Affairs. 

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Creating Connection Webinar – Online Fundraising: How to Mobilise and Engage your Community https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-online-fundraising-how-to-mobilise-and-engage-your-community/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-online-fundraising-how-to-mobilise-and-engage-your-community/#respond Fri, 08 Jul 2022 10:31:29 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=13834 The Speakers   Ben Parker - Director, Stockcrowd UK We will be discussing online fundraising strategies, tactics, and of course, platforms with one of the most innovative fundraising specialists in the UK, Ben Parker of StockCrowd UK   Our Previous Roundtable Events

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The Speakers

 

Ben Parker – Director, Stockcrowd UK

We will be discussing online fundraising strategies, tactics, and of course, platforms with one of the most innovative fundraising specialists in the UK, Ben Parker of StockCrowd UK

 

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Creating Connection Webinar – Community Q&A with Nicole Saunders, Director of Community at Zendesk https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-community-qa-with-nicole-saunders-director-of-community-at-zendesk/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-webinar-community-qa-with-nicole-saunders-director-of-community-at-zendesk/#respond Tue, 07 Jun 2022 08:32:03 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=13756    

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Creating Connection Workshop – Troubleshooting 101: Community Engagement https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-workshop-troubleshooting-101-community-engagement/ https://www.aluminati.net/creating-connection-workshop-troubleshooting-101-community-engagement/#respond Wed, 25 May 2022 09:49:04 +0000 https://www.aluminati.net/?p=13730 Creating Connection Workshop Troubleshooting 101: Community Engagement Thursday 30th June - 3pm(UK) Join us for a brand new Creating Connection Workshop, with Maria Gutierrez, Strategic and Mentoring Consultant here at Aluminati. Maria will be taking you through and exploring three common problems that arise when it comes to engaging your own communities and [...]

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Creating Connection Workshop

Troubleshooting 101: Community Engagement

Thursday 30th June – 3pm(UK)

Join us for a brand new Creating Connection Workshop, with Maria Gutierrez, Strategic and Mentoring Consultant here at Aluminati.

Maria will be taking you through and exploring three common problems that arise when it comes to engaging your own communities and how you can overcome these challenges effectively.

The Speaker

Maria Gutierrez

Strategic and Mentoring Consultant, Aluminati

Maria has worked in Higher Education since 2009. She started as a Project Manager in the Boston University Community Service Centre, where she partnered with Harvard’s community service initiatives. She then went on to pursue a Master’s in International Business from Hult International Business School, which further developed her expertise in project management, volunteer management and stakeholder engagement.

Our Previous Roundtable Events

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