Chief Strategy Officer Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for VPs of Strategy/Strategic Initiatives June 21 – August 12, 2022 Important Links Nearby Hotel Suggestions Hyatt Place Denver Tech Center – 3-star hotel 8300 E Crescent Pkwy, Greenwood Village, CO 80111 303-804-0700 Distance from office: 0.5 miles if driving, 0.3 miles if walking Hyatt Regency Denver Tech Center – 4-star hotel 7800 E Tufts Ave, Denver, CO 80237 303-779-1234 Distance from office: 1.1 miles Denver Marriott Tech Center – 4-star hotel 4900 S Syracuse St, Denver, CO 80237 303-779-1100 Distance from office: 0.9-1.2 miles, depending on route Welcome! To facilitate community and trust-building among the cohort from the get-go, the roundtable will kick off with a half-day in-person strategy session in Denver, Colorado on Tuesday, June 21. Seven weekly, hour-long virtual sessions will follow, running from early July to mid-August. Session 1 (In-person): Tuesday June 21 | 12:00 – 5:00 p.m. MT (local time in Denver, CO) 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. MT: Lunch 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. MT: Strategy session 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. MT: Networking hour Session 2 (Virtual): Friday July 1 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 3 (Virtual): Friday July 8 | 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET Session 4 (Virtual): Friday […]
Chief Diversity Officer Roundtable: A Cohort-Based Series for Diversity Leaders Meet a cohort of other Chief Diversity Officers to build your network, unpack common issues you face, share practices that are working, and build your leadership capacity. Login On Starting: September 9, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:
Course Details 1 h 15 mins of video instruction Downloadable Workbook Access all 3 modules Instructors Heath Boice-Pardee Eileen Soisson
Course Details 44 mins of video instruction Downloadable Workbook Access all 3 modules Instructors Heath Boice-Pardee Eileen Soisson We Want to Hear From You! Please take a few minutes to fill out a short survey letting us know about your experience with this course.
Course Details 1 h 4 mins of video instruction Downloadable Workbook Access all 3 modules Instructors Heath Boice-Pardee Eileen Soisson
Faculty and development professionals must share a commitment to philanthropy in order for a grateful patient fundraising (GPFR) program to be successful. Building trust, respect, and rapport is best accomplished through a strategic process that involves educating and training medical faculty partners. When your medical faculty understands the “why,” the “how,” and the “what” of your GPFR program, it is often much easier to engage grateful patients and successfully close gifts. This training will discuss the essential elements of a training guide that development professionals should consider in their initial meetings with faculty as they begin a partnership in GPFR. Join us in this useful online training to deepen your capability as a gift officer in academic medicine and learn ways to successfully achieve buy-in from your medical faculty partners.
A portfolio is the engine that drives a gift officer’s work and sets them up for future success. However, for new or seasoned professionals alike, opportunities to look at your portfolio with a different viewpoint can be highly beneficial as you seek to understand your portfolio data and prioritize donor relationships. Additionally, in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, institutions are facing a reset moment with their portfolios as they are able to travel again to meet donors in person. Join us for this webcast to learn how to identify key data points in your portfolio which you can then use to cultivate relationships with your donors and chart a path for success in your own portfolio management.
When your institution receives a major gift, whether in the form of one single gift or through a multi-year pledge, it is important to manage that gift accurately. This includes placing the gift in its appropriate account on campus, ensuring that pledge reminders are sent out and payment secured in a timely manner, and that the donation is used according to donor intent. However, when frontline fundraisers introduce new gifts, the institutional destination and purpose of the gift can get lost in translation as it makes its way to advancement services for processing. Therefore, it is vital to ensure that the processes between advancement services and frontline fundraising are sound and that communication is consistent to prevent circumstances that can lead to loss in revenue, missed pledges, or money spent incorrectly. Join us for this online training to learn how the University of Utah created a new position specific to addressing these common problems within advancement. This session will help your shop to identify and scale your current process by adopting some of Utah’s best practices to better streamline communication across these two areas.
Course Details Released 4/28/2020 1 h 23 mins of video instruction Downloadable Resources For full event information, view event page Instructors Paulyne Becerra Dr. Michael Bumbry
The Fundamentals of Leadership: A Bootcamp for New or Aspiring Leaders in Higher Ed June 21 – August 9, 2022 Individual Dates: June 21, 28, July 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 2022 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Welcome to The Fundamentals of Leadership: A Bootcamp for New or Aspiring Leaders in Higher Ed. Our hope is that you walk away with the ability to apply the key tenets of successful and equitable leadership in your role. This course page is your “one-stop shop” for all course materials and instructions you will need to guide you through the bootcamp. A couple of important notes to get you started: All course materials can be found in the “Access Course Materials” tab to the left. Any course materials you will need to prepare for the live sessions, including copies of slides, assignments and assessments, will be made available at the beginning of the week. If you have any questions, please contact: Jess Landis, Learning & Development Manager, Academic Impressions Mark Your Calendars Session 1 | Program Kick-Off: Defining Your Leadership Strengths (Leading Self) Tuesday, June 21 | 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. Eastern Session 2 | Understanding Your Core […]
It is no surprise that in the United States, racial tensions—especially between Black and White Americans—are alive and well and continue to do harm. For example, those who are Black-presenting do not get to choose or operate from the historically privileged social identities such as class, age, or ableism that White-presenting people do. In this session, therefore, you will learn how race dynamics between these two groups play out in European countries versus the United States. You will also examine how you communicate subconsciously to avoid or shut down conversations, either as a defense mechanism or to prohibit critical dialogue about racial inequity. Finally, you will learn strategies that will help us, as a collective, to move forward while simultaneously embracing the new challenges that are sure to come our way.
A separate training in this educational series on racial inequity dialogue explored why conversations about racial inequity and bias can be so challenging, and now this session will help you to identify the root source of your discomfort and understand why a wide range of emotions in such moments is natural. In this workshop series, we will therefore examine historic and current roadblocks to true connection, barriers that can lead to distrust, and how we engage unconsciously with individuals based on their visible or assumed social identities. We will also explore how racial power dynamics influence everyday interactions and identify ways to challenge entrenched norms that influence how we choose to communicate and engage with each other.
For years, there has been an increasingly dominant narrative in our society about the importance of being kind or “politically correct.” While these are important principles, we must nevertheless unpack and examine how this narrative often gets in the way of difficult yet essential conversations about race and racial inequity. The truth is, if we are unwilling to engage with well-intentioned or well-meaning colleagues in critical conversations when bias appears, we are therefore consciously allowing for ignorance and harm to perpetuate. This means that conversations like these are not only critical, but also necessary for healing ourselves as individuals and as a collective. This first session will give you an opportunity to reflect on the messages you have learned over time about how to engage in conversations about race. We will explore how these messages have influenced your daily decisions to engage or disengage in difficult conversations over time. You will practice intentional engagement versus moving past uncomfortable scenarios and arrive at a place where you are more actively willing to take part in the conversation.
Faculty Affairs Roundtable for Unit-Level Leaders: A Cohort-Based Series May 26 – June 30, 2022 Individual Dates: May 26, June 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2022 Engage with a cohort of unit-level faculty and academic affairs leaders to build your network, explore common issues, and share current practices. Login On Starting: May 26, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:
The past two years of annual giving have given rise to more short-term, cause-based campaigns, in which newly formulated 60- to 90-day campaigns have become more of the norm than the exception. With this change, advancement shops have been able to generate a more focused pipeline for different areas of their institutions, acquire new donors, and increase awareness of causes to existing donors. This pivotal focus to identify societal needs continues to evolve, but with limited campaign resources, it is inevitable that not every cause will be developed into a short-term campaign. Join us online to learn how to identify and develop a cause-based initiative that is specific to the institutional strengths and community needs for your next short-term campaign. During this training, you will learn how to: Identify guiding principles to help you define and choose which cause-based initiative to pursue. Decide which cause-based campaigns to begin, continue, or sunset. Know the roles and responsibilities of team members and campus partners.
5 Principles of Effective Leadership: A Bootcamp for Leaders at All Levels July 12 – August 9, 2022 Individual Dates: July 12, 19, 26, August 2, 9, 2022 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Thank you so much for joining us on your leadership development learning journey! Over the course of these five weeks, you will learn from our expert instructor as well as from your peers and be given the valuable opportunity to apply what you are learning in real time. The bootcamp provides a rich variety of opportunities for you to connect with a small cohort of attendees as you work through the various exercises. Our hope is that you will walk away having thoroughly explored and developed your leadership skills through reflection, discussion, and application. Pre-event assignment For our first session, please be prepared to share your favorite leadership quote during introductions. If you have any questions, please contact: Katie Ribas, Executive Operations Coordinator at AI. Mark Your Calendars Module 1: July 12, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Principle 1: Modeling the Way Module 2: July 19, 2022 | 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. Eastern Principle 2: Inspiring a Shared Vision, […]
Becoming a Writer: Strategies for Success in Scholarly Writing and Publication June 21 – August 2, 2022 Individual Dates: June 21, 28, July 12, 19, 26, and August 2, 2022 Important Links Contact Moira Killoran to learn more. Welcome! Welcome to Becoming a Writer: Strategies for Success in Scholarly Writing and Publication. We invite you to join our community of researchers seeking to learn concrete and enduring writing skills in order to advance their current or upcoming writing projects. In preparation, mark your calendars for the following dates and times: The bootcamp meets weekly on Tuesdays from 1-3 p.m. ET Session 1 – 6/21 Session 2 – 6/28 Session 3 – 7/12 Session 4 – 7/19 Session 5 – 7/26 Session 6 – 8/2 As we get closer to the start date, you can expect to receive emails from jenna@academicimpressions.com with additional details about how the program will be facilitated. Ensure Your Technology is Ready This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully: Audio & Visual Needs
Title of VT/WC Pullquote Login On: June 22, 2021 at 1:00 p.m. ET JOIN ZOOM MEETING Full Event Information VIEW EVENT PAGE Including: Agenda Overview Speaker Bios Prepare for the Workshop This workshop is intentionally designed to allow for maximum learning, connections, and engagement. We advise the following in order to participate fully:
To shift the mindset of a leadership annual donor into that of a major donor requires you to go beyond just knowing their capacity; you must also understand what the donor wants to see their gift accomplish, and how to align that specific desire with your institutional needs. This requires knowing how effective each component of your leadership giving program is and how to best manage and develop your leadership annual donors. Join us in this interactive virtual training to learn portfolio management and stewardship techniques to successfully transition leadership donors into major gift prospects. In this program, you will: Assess your leadership giving portfolio by evaluating the effectiveness of your donor strategies Identify high impact stewardship to build an authentic relationship with your leadership donors Practice productive donor conversations and key talking points, so you’re prepared for your next upgrade ask
