Your Role in Leading Institutional Strategy 

Sue Cunningham, CASE President and CEO, opens the Summit with a conversation with institution presidents who will share how their leadership and participation in advancement helps drive strategic goals for the institution. They will provide insight into what the president does to position advancement as a key partner in this strategic work, and what the president needs from advancement leaders in that regard. The presidents will also address recent and unexpected challenges they faced, and how their advancement colleagues helped them lead through the unexpected, and share lessons learned. 

Panelists: Sue Cunningham, President and CEO, CASE, Daniele Struppa, President, Chapman University, and Suzanne Fortier, Principal and Vice-Chancellor, McGill University 

The Presidents’ Panel will be followed by advancement leaders across disciplines addressing their responses to the unexpected this past year. Learn how they approached the challenge, and how they leverage the situation to better prepare for future unexpected events, and how advancement is leading strategy across the institution. Hear from Rachel Sandison, University of Glasgow, and how the university has stepped forward to lead as a carbon-neutral campus and is hosting a major international climate summit in October; learn from David Bennett of Howard University, and the impact of Mackenzie Scott’s transformational gift, and from Lisa Lewis, from the University of Minnesota, and the experiences leading her alumni association during the extended challenges after the murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. 

Moderator: Binti Harvey, Vice President for External Relations and Institutional Advancement, Scripps College
Speakers: Rachel Sandison, Vice Principal, External Relations, University of Glasgow, David Bennett, Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations, Howard University, and Lisa Lewis, President & Chief Executive Officer, Alumni Association, University of Minnesota 

Your Role in Leading Your Team to Greater Effectiveness 

Keynote Presentation 
How can we lead our teams to become more effective in our work, and more inclusive in our approach? 
Laura Morgan Roberts, professor of practice at Darden Business School of the University of Virginia researches and consults on the science of maximizing human potential in diverse organizations and communities. She has published over fifty research articles, teaching cases, and practitioner-oriented tools for strategically activating best selves through strength-based development. Her talk will help you think differently about how to lead your team through a focus on authenticity, positive identities, and extraordinary leadership impact.

Speaker: Laura Morgan Roberts, Professor of Practice, Darden Business School of the University of Virginia 

Response Panel 
The Keynote Presentation will be followed by a response panel of advancement leaders sharing insights into team leadership. Rob Henry, CASE Vice President for Development, Talent, and Culture, will moderate this conversation with Erin Hall Westfall of the University of Cambridge, and Peter Hayashida, the University of California, Riverside.  

Moderator: Rob Henry, Vice President, Development, Culture, and Talent, CASE 

Panelists:  
Erin Hall-Westfall, Director of Talent Management, University Development & Alumni Relations, University of Cambridge and Peter Hayashida, President, UC Riverside Foundation and Vice Chancellor for Advancement, University of California, Riverside

Your Role in Understanding and Communicating Campus Culture  

Campus culture dramatically shapes the work that we do in institutional advancement.  The experiences of our students reflect the communities we build.  In this session we’ll hear from leading educational journalists Sarah Brown from the Chronicle of Higher Education and Jim Dickinson from Wonkhe about the major campus cultural issues they are seeing and what issues they expect to be most potent in the coming years. Terry Flannery, one of the leading university marketing professionals in the world, and chair of the CASE Board of Trustees, will interview Sarah and Jim about their insights. 

Moderator: Terry Flannery, Chair, CASE Board of Trustees; practitioner, author and consultant

Speakers:  Sarah Brown, Senior Reporter, Chronicle of Higher Education, and Jim Dickinson, Associate Editor, WONKHE 

This conversation will be followed by a panel of advancement leaders reflecting on how advancement disciplines can be thinking about how to respond to the issues raised by the preceding discussion. 

Moderator: Alison Traub, Executive Director, Development and Alumni Relations, University of Cambridge 

Panelists: Carlos H. Garcia, Director, Institutional Relations and Chief of Staff, CETYS University System; Bennie Harris, Chancellor, University of South Carolina Upstate; and Nikki Sunstrum, Director of Social Media and Public Engagement, University of Michigan