Rose Laden is the executive director of alumni relations at Villanova University, where she provides strategic direction and leadership for an alumni engagement program serving 130k+ constituents. Prior to Villanova she spent 10 years at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where she was director of alumni engagement and programming. In this role, she led a team responsible for several areas, including the strategic direction of 77 independent alumni organizations worldwide, online engagement and services, alumnae programs, and served as a core member of the team responsible for launching Wharton's comprehensive lifelong learning program. Some outcomes of this work include a popular faculty webinar series, Women's Circles, an in-person program designed to create a personal board of directors for participants, and the development of a volunteer-driven engagement program that resulted in a 300% increase in philanthropic participation over 5 years. Rose previously worked in alumni relations at Thomas Jefferson University and West Chester University. She is a graduate of West Chester University from the Communications and International Business programs, and received her M.S. in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.