Uncovering Alumni Insights to Guide Your Next Move

What if your PeopleGrove platform could act as a live dashboard for community insight? Join us to see how Yale University is using PeopleGrove’s Engagement Hub as a powerful mechanism for understanding alumni and student needs, motivations, and behaviors.

In this session, you’ll hear directly from Stephen Blum (Yale) and Sarah Myksin (PeopleGrove) on how structured engagement can generate both qualitative stories and quantitative trends that inform programming, teaching, and development efforts. From categorizing mentor motivations to linking donor activity with platform use, this webinar offers an inside look at how to turn engagement into strategic intelligence.

Join us to discover how institutions use PeopleGrove’s Engagement Hub to transform meaningful connections into actionable insights. In this session, you’ll hear how mentorship programs and platform engagement can reveal powerful stories and surface trends that inform institutional strategy.

In this webinar, you’ll learn:

• Why capturing student and alumni sentiment leads to deeper institutional understanding
• What types of qualitative and quantitative data are most valuable—and how to collect them
• How to translate mentorship engagement into strategic insight for faculty, advancement, and student support
• How one campus surfaced critical platform engagement trends to improve outcomes

Speakers:

• Steve Blum, Senior Director Strategic Initiatives, Yale (YAA); Resident Fellow, Branford College (Yale)
• Sarah Myksin, Associate Vice President, Strategic Partnerships, PeopleGrove