Fundamentals in Stakeholder
and Alumni Relations


Alumni and stakeholder relations is an exciting endeavour in which successful techniques can support significant institutional or organisational growth.

The course is designed to provide you a solid understanding of core elements across stakeholder and alumni relations, including events and programs, stakeholder communications, and supporting operations. It offer practical steps and recommendations that can serve or new or standard existing operations.

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Course Level

This course is suitable for those early in their career or in career transitions, or those leading or working within modest operations. It will explore key operating pillars and provide actionable techniques and practical tools.

A Certificate of Completion is issued once you have completed the course at 100%.

What to Expect

The course is structured over four modules to cover the following topics:

  • Module 1: Investigating the building blocks of an effective alumni or stakeholder engagement operation
  • Module 2: Exploring alumni programs and events, including traditional, emerging and leading practices
  • Module 3: Communications as engagement and the front door to stakeholder relations
  • Module 4: Understanding operations and administration and their essential role in alumni engagement

Learning Outcomes


By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Build a solid foundational understanding of the current practices and trends in alumni and other stakeholder engagement
  • Understand to best practices across programming, digital engagement, stakeholder communications, and admin operations
  • Take practical steps to establish or further develop a modest to medium-sized alumni operation

About Course Author

Mark Sollis

Strategist & Creative, D3 Advancement Studio

Mark is a recognised leader in alumni and stakeholder engagement, with global experience across higher education systems in Australia, Asia, North America, and the UK. He specialises in strategy development, performance measurement, and business planning, and has led and supported transformative projects for a number of major education institutions and organisations.

As the founder of D3 Advancement Studio, he brings a data-informed, culturally aware, and creative approach to advancing engagement and strategic outcomes.