Leadership Track
Taking place on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 August, the Leadership Track is a significant opportunity to take time out with peers to think about the leaders we are and the leaders we want to be for our teams. We recognise that it is hard to find time in our day-to-day work to do this.
To register for CEAC with the additional Leadership Track, please register through this link.
To register for the Leadership Track only, please register through this link. Please note, this registration option does not permit entry to the rest of the CEAC programme.
Programme Schedule
Leadership Track Chairs
It is an immense pleasure to co-chair the Leadership Track for CEAC 2024. We hold a deep belief that higher education is one of the greatest forces for good in this uncertain world. It serves to meet the challenges of today and tomorrow. As advancement professionals, we play a vital part in enabling, unlocking and protecting educational excellence, talent and purpose.
Our sector needs visionary and empowering leaders. Leaders who can inspire and energise their teams to achieve their institutional goals and gain real reward in doing so. With that responsibility comes heavy demands. This forum gives leaders from across Europe the opportunity of a supportive environment to take a moment to reflect on their personal goals and leadership style. We will give space for some innovative and strategic advice on how to look after ourselves as well as those we manage and some practical tactics for building resilient and successful teams. There will be some fantastic experts to give us wise and creative counsel based on the latest best practice.
We are hugely looking forward to learning from you and with you!
Pia and Sara
Pia Dolivo
Dolivo joined the University of Helsinki in 2000 and started out her career at UH as an alumni coordinator. Since then, Dolivo has held several posts at the University of Helsinki, including Head of Career Center, Fundraising Campaign Manager and Head of Community Relations. Before her career at the University Dolivo worked in the Finnish Parliament, and in the City of Helsinki Cultural Capital Foundation as a producer of science and citizen related projects. A continuous source of inspiration for her is to meet and interact with visionary alumni, donors and corporate partners who want to engage with the University in a multitude of ways.
Sara Kalim
Sara Kalim read Classics at Somerville from 1990-94. She then spent 14 years in the media, working as Head of Development for two major television production companies. Her work included developing access and ideas, and fundraising for documentaries and current affairs programming. Sara has most recently worked for the University of Oxford for three years at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Department of Politics and International Relations, where she held responsibility for financial and strategic planning, and played an instrumental role in securing journalism scholarships from a variety of funding sources.
As Director of Development, Sara oversees Somerville’s fundraising strategy and development, is responsible for fundraising campaigns (including for the Margaret Thatcher Scholarship Trust and the Oxford India Centre), and heads up the Development Team. She is also a member of the College’s Management Team.
Sara has a long-standing family connection to India, with family coming from Patna, Bihar. She also studied at Somerville making her the perfect advocate to drive the further development of the Centre. Sara’s focus is on fundraising and profile-raising working with philanthropists and corporate partners.
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