Podcast appearances and mentions of andy shaindlin

On this episode of the RAISE Podcast Brent caught up with Andy Shaindlin, Vice President for Alumni Relations at Brown University. Andy has led an impressive career as a leader in strategic alumni engagement with extensive experience at major research universities. When speaking with Advancement professionals, Brent has often said “all roads lead to Andy”.About AndyAndy Shaindlin serves as Vice President of Alumni Relations at Brown University. In this role he oversees all aspects of alumni relations for the University, creating and directing a comprehensive program of events, activities and organizations to engage Brown's community of more than 90,000 alumni across the world. He serves as chief liaison to the Brown Alumni Association and provides leadership, vision and direction to the alumni relations staff in the Division of Advancement.Throughout his career, he has been a frequent speaker and author on topics related to global nonprofit strategy and the effects of technology on organizations and their communities. In 2007, he launched Alumni Futures, a website devoted to the alumni relations profession and covering new directions and innovative ideas for nonprofit professionals.Shaindlin has also chaired the Commission on Alumni Relations for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and served on the CASE Board of Trustees.In addition to his bachelor's degree from Brown, where he concentrated in international relations, Shaindlin earned a master of arts in education from Claremont Graduate University in California. His concentration was higher education administration.

How often do we ask ourselves: who do I want to be? How do we make our career choices – including decisions about changing employers or even professions? How these choices possibly relate to a wider evolution of our professional areas? Is there any formula for career success? Informed by his research on professional identities and inspired by the way we influence each other's career paths, Dr. Serge Sych has invited three of his career influencers, star advancement professionals, Dr. Phil Conroy, Zarema Kasabieva and Andy Shaindlin for an eye-opening conversation on choices, career paths, and reaching our full potential as advancement professionals.

How often do we ask ourselves: who do I want to be? How do we make our career choices – including decisions about changing employers or even professions? How these choices possibly relate to a wider evolution of our professional areas? Is there any formula for career success? Informed by his research on professional identities and inspired by the way we influence each other’s career paths, Dr. Serge Sych has invited three of his career influencers, star advancement professionals, Dr. Phil Conroy, Zarema Kasabieva and Andy Shaindlin for an eye-opening conversation on choices, career paths, and reaching our full potential as advancement professionals.

Part 2 of my conversation with Andy Shaindlin is dedicated to engagement metrics. We discuss how digital communications has impacted the work of alumni relations over the last 20 years and how teams are working to keep up with new technology while collecting data on stakeholder activation. A big thanks to Andy Shaindlin for chatting with me!

On the show this week, an advancement pro that needs little introduction, Andy Shaindlin. Andy is a Senior Consultant with Grenzebach Glier and Associates. A specialist in alumni engagement that includes tenures at Brown, Michigan, Cal Tech, and Carnegie Mellon, along with a recent stint at Switchboard (our presenting sponsor), Andy has been a thought leader in the space for more than a decade. This is part one in a two-part interview with Andy. We talk about an array of topics from network platforms to the future of alumni associations. In Part 2, we’ll dig into engagement metrics.

The world of alumni relations is constantly in flux. In the midst of evolving audience expectations and a rapidly changing communications landscape, alumni relations professionals are tasked with cultivating relationships between alumni and their alma maters, as well as mobilizing those audiences in support of the institutions. In this episode, Host Andrew Gossen discusses the challenges and opportunities confronting alumni relations practitioners in 2016 and beyond with two experts: GG+A’s Andy Shaindlin and UCLA’s Julie Sina.

Click here to listen: http://www.archive.org/download/ImpactAlumniPodcastEpisode12/impactalumnipodcastmory.mp3 This episode is loaded with great tips, best practices and sage advice from the USC Alumni Association's CEO, Scott Mory.  Scott talks about managing a volunteer board of directors.  Tune in for great nuggets like "Own Your Board" and "Put a volunteer between you and your volunteers."  Enjoy!If you like what you hear, you can read more of Scott's perspective on our profession in a recent posting as a guest blogger for Andy Shaindlin's AlumniFutures.com.Send me feedback to paul.clifford@alumnipodcast.com. Please leave comments below or on the iTunes Music store. You can find us here: