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Propelling the Future of
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The academic institutions we work with are at the heart of all that is new. They attract the brightest minds and train them with the mission to make the world a better place.
Solving complex scientific problems, developing new technologies, and creating new business models to communicate those findings to markets sustainably all require diverse people to work together — and this is where we bring our expertise.
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We help researchers, entrepreneurs, managers, and alumni networks leverage their diversity and build cross-cultural collaborations that drive lasting success.
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Ready to take your institution’s legacy to its next level?
Alumni Networks
Lifelong Community
After graduating, alumni often feel disconnected and unsupported in their next ventures. Forum for Alumni can provide opportunities to leverage and strengthen the relationships, knowledge, and sense of belonging that students feel, helping members continue to grow personally and professionally. - Why do we use Forum for Alumni? After graduating, alumni often feel disconnected and unsupported in their next ventures. Forum for Alumni can provide opportunities to leverage and strengthen the relationships, knowledge, and sense of belonging that students feel, helping members continue to grow personally and professionally. - What is Forum for Alumni process? The Forum process takes members through several structured stages during each meeting and retreat, allowing participants to share their issues and concerns in a safe space with other members. Participants learn how to identify core issues and their underlying causes, openly express their concerns around these issues, provide one-on-one coaching to other alumni (which they are trained to provide), and practice accountability by creating detailed action plans with the knowledge they will be followed up on. - What makes Forum for Alumni successful? The Forum is successful when it receives support from within the organization's structures, when meetings are run according to the correct procedure facilitated by a trained moderator, when meetings are regular, and when appropriate materials and facilitation tools (to be provided) are used. - How to implement Forum for Alumni? Through a structured and guided implementation program, we assist with launching and supporting the forum structure within your alumni network, scheduling regular moderator meetings, developing materials and facilitation tools, and providing training at various levels (individual coaching for moderators and vice-moderators, conflict resolution training and tools, and feedback training). We help create a practice of monitoring and reporting results, measuring ROIs, providing online support for questions and challenges, conducting forum survey analysis and action plans for improvement, and supporting the creation of Forum rules and an operational guidebook.
Building Trust in an Alumni Network Retreat:
Mentoring Programs
Driving Purposeful Leadership
Mentoring is a powerful tool for personal and professional development. The overarching goal of the process is to provide graduates with tools to make both career and personal decisions in the best way possible, while facilitating a smooth transition from academic institutions to the workforce. We help pair mentors and mentees to provide a meaningful experience for both. Mentors are supported in learning relevant and powerful skills and, in doing so, become lifelong mentors to those around them. Finally, mentees are allowed to learn from another individual and build a relationship that can support them for a lifetime.
Key ingredients:
It is a semiannual program composed of the following elements:
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One-on-one meetings between the mentor and the graduate.
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An opening and closing session for all graduates and mentors.
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Several training sessions for graduates and mentors are held separately.
Entrepreneurship Programs
Co-Founding, Redefined
Behind every successful venture is a group of people who have learned how to work well together. Forming that group and building the right working relationships is the foundation of this program. We will teach how to recognize the necessary leadership styles, identify personal styles, understand how teammates can complement one another, and build a team that can channel conflict into a constructive process.
