Strategic Alumni Engagement and Leadership Conference 2026
This conference will explore best practices, metrics, and strategies to advance institutional priorities. Participants will explore how to maximize alumni engagement for organizational impact while cultivating their own leadership capabilities and professional growth.
Join us in Chicago and leave with a clear roadmap to lead change, amplify alumni impact, and shape the future of your institution.
Learning Objectives
- Develop tools to support strategic priorities and institutional leadership.
- Design initiatives that deliver measurable impact and deepen alumni connections.
- Analyze metrics and standards to optimize successful alumni engagement outcomes.
- Model strategies for leading and supporting teams both within alumni relations and with cross-divisional colleagues.
- Strengthen leadership skills and accelerate professional growth through peer exchange and expert insights.
Who Should Attend
- Associate vice presidents
- Associate vice chancellors
- Executive directors
- Senior directors
- Associate/Assistant directors
- First-time vice presidents
- First-time vice chancellors
Meet Your Chair
Erika Jordan
As the Associate Senior Vice President, Alumni Relations at the University of Southern California, Erika Jordan serves as the chief alumni engagement officer for the campus and plays a key role in providing leadership and strategic guidance to ensure uninterrupted engagement for the nearly 500,000 alumni in the Trojan Family.
Prior to this role, Erika served as the Vice President, Alumni Engagement at Boston University where she led the Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and the Development Events & Communications teams. Additionally, she spent six years serving as Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni & Constituent Engagement at UC Irvine. Throughout her career she has been instrumental in exponentially growing alumni engagement and annual fundraising, elevating communications and events, establishing UCI’s dual alumni engagement campaign goal and leading special projects.
Erika has spent her career in politics, special events, alumni relations, frontline fundraising, and served as the Director, Alumni Relations and Annual Giving for the USC Marshall School of Business. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and executive masters in leadership from USC.
