Hivebrite Podcasts

For this episode of Brite Ideas, host Sandra Rincon and Alexis Roig, Barcelona’s Chief Science and Tech Envoy and CEO of SciTech DiploHub, discuss how to leverage alumni for science diplomacy.

Listen in as host Sandra Rincon and Nena Grceva, Director of Alumni Affairs at Hertie School, explore how alumni advancement professionals can thrive and stay relevant in a changing world.

For this episode of Brite Ideas, host Sandra Rincon spoke to Karen Cairney, CEO and Founder of Cairney and Company—a global company of innovative and creative fundraisers, strategists, communicators, researchers, trainers, and coaches.

In honor of International Education Week (IEW), we spoke to Dr. Dilnoza Khasilova about the importance of lifelong learning. Dilnoza is a postdoctoral fellow at the Global Engagement Office of the University of Wyoming. She has developed a nonformal World Language and Culture Program with a unique structure and a diverse community in Wyoming.

Host Sandra Rincon and Dr. Alfredo Estrada, Director of the Sustainability Center at the Universidad de Lima and Coordinator of SR Network of CLADEA, discuss why sustainable development goals are critical to universities and how alumni can support institutional SDG strategy.

For this episode of Brite Ideas, Host Sandra Rincon met with entrepreneur and business owner María Lucía Bermúdez to discuss how institutions can better support (and benefit from) entrepreneurs.

For this episode of Brite Ideas, we welcomed Tarynne Swarts. Tarynne applies the philosophy of Ubuntu to everything she does. Ubuntu represents the idea that you exist through the communities you are a part of and that you must help where you can. 

For this episode of Brite Ideas, we welcomed Dr. Anita Straujuma. Anita is the Executive Director at Riga Technical University Development Fund in Latvia. She completed her dissertation on knowledge management and alumni engagement.

For this episode of Brite Ideas, we welcomed Dr. Kevin Fleming, Co-founder and CEO of Prosper Non-Profit Advisors. Kevin is an educator, researcher and thought leader with over 20 years of expertise in alumni engagement and non-profit management.

For this episode of Brite Ideas, we welcomed Richard Gillingwater, a Brand and Creative Communication Consultant at Emotional Branding Ltd.

For our first episode of 2022, we invited Karen de Man, Alumni Relations Officer at Erasmus University Rotterdam and Johannes Epping, Alumni Relations Project Manager at University of Groningen, to share insights and best practices from their alumni ambassador programs.

For the final episode of the year, we welcomed back Dr Maria Gallo, Founder of KITE – Keep in Touch Education and author of The Alumni Way, to discuss how to provide lifelong value to graduates.

For this episode, we welcomed Nik Miller, Partner at More Partnership—a leading consultancy firm that supports not-for-profit organizations, including universities, hospitals, theatres, museums, and the wider charity sector.

For this episode, we welcomed Amber Cooper Jorez and Joan Steiger, Chapter Leaders for the University of Paris, to share their insights on what volunteers want.

In this episode, Juan Maldonado, Corporate and Alumni Relations Manager at Rotterdam School of Management, joined us to share how he put together his award-winning mentoring program.

We turned the tables for this episode and Sandra Rincón, who usually hosts the podcast, was on the receiving end of the questions from Daniel Whitmoyer-Bush, Strategic Accounts Executive at Hivebrite.

For this month’s episode, we invited Clare Brownlie, Development Director at Oldham Hulme Grammar School to share her insights into how and why universities need to scale their mentoring programs.

We invited Andy Shaindlin, Vice President for Alumni Relations at Brown University, to discuss the importance of strategy.

Strategy has always been important to alumni relations programs, but it has now become indispensable to reevaluate current strategies and perhaps even reimagine new ones.

We invited Dr. Maria Gallo, Founder and Principal of KITE – Keep in Touch Education, a social enterprise that focuses on the transformative potential of alumni connection through research and educational initiatives, to discuss her recent study on the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on alumni relations.