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Episode Topic: ND Network for Life, Value & Impact 2.0

For 25 years, these fellow alumni have stayed connected to Notre Dame — whether through business ventures, leadership service to the university, sporting events, and social connections. Their stories illustrate the value and reach of the global Notre Dame network. Join the conversation to spark inspiration and practical ideas for renewing your own connection to the University and enriching both your life and the broader Notre Dame Family. Facilitated by Tina Villalobos Mitiguy ‘00 MBA, Carol D. Anderson ’00 MBA, MAcc, John Casserly ’00 MBA, and Sucheth Davuluri ‘00 MBA.

A brief demo of IrishCompass, the official Notre Dame online professional community for networking, coaching, mentoring, job exploration, and more, is included and will be presented by Juliana Newbill ’02.

Featured Speakers:
-Tina Villalobos Mitiguy ‘00 MBA, Workplace Culture Evaluator, Great Place To Work Institute
-Carol D. Anderson, ’00 MBA, MAcc, Managing Partner/Principal Consultant, Anderson Finance Consulting, llc
-John Casserly ’00 MBA, Owner, 41 North Builders
-Sucheth Davuluri ‘00 MBA, Vice Chairman of the Board and CEO, Neuland Laboratories Limited
-Juliana Newbill ’02, IrishCompass Program Manager, Alumni Association, University of Notre Dame

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Welcome and Introduction

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Welcome. So good to see all of you here. Thank you for attending. this is for the class of 2020, or sorry, 2000. My, my name is Tina Nebo and I'm graduating in the class of 2000 MBA two year program. And I come from the San Francisco Bay Area, as you might have read on the, website. I've been working in the San Francisco Bay area as a workplace consultant, and today we have a lot in store for you in the next hour. the topic as you've seen is called, Notre Dame Network for Life 2.0. And what does that mean as a graduate alumnus? this is our second degree, MBAM, B-A-M-B-A. This is our second chance to reconnect with the Notre Dame family, with the Notre Dame spirit, and to get back to campus altogether after 25 years. So thank you for joining us. I'm gonna introduce our panelists here for you today. And while we're being introduced to'em, I want you to think about each one of them and their story and how it connects to your story. And one thing that you wanna take away from this session today, and just let that marinate in your head and we'll have a q and A at the very end. at the last 15 minutes, we will have a, presentation from Irish Compass, kind of like the LinkedIn for Notre Dame. And we'll have a great demo, from Juliana that will tell you how you can continue to connect with our beloved Notre Dame. So with that, let's get started. I'd like to introduce first Carol Anderson.

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Hi, I'm Carol Anderson. Ooh, that's live. thank you so much for being here. Class of 2000 MBA. I live in Los Angeles, went to USC undergrad and I am the principal consultant for my finance and strategy consultancy, Anderson Finance Consulting in Los Angeles for a fact.

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Yes, please. A fun fact about yourself in the last 25 years, something that's occurred or something you wanna share just to share.

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Well, midway through my career, I decided that I finally had sufficient time and money, and I took a year off and went around the world for almost a year. Spent, time in six on six continents, to about 30 countries.

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Wow. Travelers. Carol didn't know that about you. Che

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good. Hi everyone. You can hear me. my name is Che, class of 2000. currently I'm the CEO of a listed pharmaceutical company based out of India. and the fun fact, and you know, Tina reminded me this morning, but when actually he first came to Notre Dame, this was in 1998, I realized that my, when my father went to Notre Dame, this was back in 1966, he had an American host family. So Mr. Berg used to work for, allied segment that made missiles for, and, you know, my father spent a lot of time with them. And when I came here in 98, I actually went to visit there to exactly the same house. And, as soon as Mrs. Berg saw me, she started. You know, had tears in her eyes and she ran back into the house and then came back out, got herself together and she's like, you remind me so much after good time that we had, when your father was here. So that was really nice. And incidentally, the company that I worked for, which is coincidentally founded by my father, is also named after Father Newland of not Dame. So he said Newland Science Block. That's where the company, is named after. So, we'll talk more. John spent two years with me. He obviously didn't know that'cause I could hear that. I'm glad to share that Fun fact about, we'll get more into it as we go through the

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Yes.

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But that's me.

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Thank you. Sja. and

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John Casser Lee, last 2000, originally from Chicago. Born, raised in Chicago, traveled around quite a bit, was living out in Los Angeles. Looking to go get my MBA. So I applied to USC and UCLA and Notre Dame was my throwaway

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prevention.

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And, I didn't get into, it was UCLA at the time Notre Dame accepted me with open arms. But I did wanna leave the Southern California lifestyle. So I deferred here, tried to get into USC that got way listened there. So I, like, I can't say no to God voice, say that's how I Notre Dame without them stepping foot on campus. not so fun. Facting I've had captain the last 25 years. I have no idea. It's sudden times. Just, I feel like I've still started my life and we've been outta school for 25 years, so, more than that.'cause I live in, Chicago right now. My company is 41 North Builders. I'm a general contractor specializing in mostly in home residential work.

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Okay, John, well let's get into it now about your connection to Notre Dame. Carol, how have you stayed connected to Notre Dam?

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So, I like to say that, you know, I graduated 25 years ago, but I've never left Notre Dame. straight out of graduating was the first, in 2000 was my first attendance to the Black Alumni Life, Heather Gaines board, not board, sorry, triannual reunion. And I was still on campus. We had just graduated. My youth didn't expire, so I chose to stay on campus. And that year coincidentally was their triannual. And so immediately I got to connect with alums going back to the fifties all the way through in the Affinity group, triannual reunions. It's an all class. So we get to meet people born all the way back. And I had the pleasure of getting to know those folks and just to see all the work they have done to, Support the black African, Afro, Caribbean, African, American community at Notre Dame. And I chose right then to be a part of that. So I joined the board, in 2001 and served for about 12 years. Then I went away for a while and I'm back again, starting last July. And, what it does for me is I'm reminded of what others have done for me. And so it's important to me that I give back to not only the Notre Dame community, but narrowly to the BA program and their current MBAs here doing what I do 25 years ago. and any student. So I have many mentees that I've served over the last 25 years. So through service.

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Yeah, I think of service usually as like, hands-on work, working on the farm. But what you're talking about it is a leadership always a way to, bring people into the fold through your hard work, reaching out, project management, organization, those type of skills? Correct. Well,

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the university's primary constituent groups are, alumni number one, current students, number two, prospective students, number three, and then the community here. So administration, staff, faculty, all of those communities are impacted by the work that the alumni boards do. And so, not only at the local level obviously, but I'm, I've been serving at the national level, and so it's been Wonder Day to do that.

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Thank you. Karen. John, or Chad, do you wanna jump in with how you've been connected to Notre Dame these past 25 years?

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I'm just happy that Carol's getting asked the question first so I can response so that I don't actually, I'm not listening to her. But anyway, j jump apart. I think personally I'm kind of big, I finding ways of, giving back where I've gained from. I have constantly tried to do it. So as far as Notre Dame is concerned, we try to work with the chemistry department here to see if we can get students from here to India because, you know, as all of you know, in, in university you doing a lot of theoretical work and you don't get to apply. You don't get to appreciate how what we can learn here can be applied once you get a job and go out there. So what we're trying to do is for all the students in the chemistry department, and since we make pharmaceuticals for, for heart disease, depression, schizophrenia, anti-infective, one of our goals is to see. You can get students to work in a lab so that they can see the correlation with degree, what they're learning in college or university, and how they're gonna be able to apply once they get out of here. I also work with Notre Dame International. So Notre Dame International has a project in India. They have a pretty sizeable budget. we actually training teachers in government schools in India to impart better quality education. So I help them. I'm on the advisory board in India. I help them recruit, like the project manager for this entire program, try to make government connections in India. India can be bureaucratic as probably a lot of female. So I try to enable that relationship between Meridium International and the work that we do. specifically, India. the last thing we're trying to do, not successful yet, is to get people who work in new one to come and actually work on campus here, so that you have that verse where. You kind learning modern chemistry, modern techniques and all of that. And for me, the best way to stay in touch with Notre Dame is to stay in touch with my friends. I mean, so

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I like that

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answer.

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Thank you.

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As I say, that's a good segue to me because that's my connection is on the social and personal level. I've never been one much for networking. I don't know if it's a, it is just kind of a fault. I always thought I could do everything on my own, so I never cared to reach out and ask for help. But on the personal level, the context I made with our program, I kind of equate it to being in the military and cheering the same foxhole. We all went through the same thing together, same classes, the same struggles, graduating, looking for the jobs. So it was that shared experience that tied us together. And for the past 25 years, I consider my classmates some of my best friends I've ever had.'cause we were able to stay connected. Share what's going on, enjoy listening about what's going on with their growing families, all that sort of thing. So my contact is more, again, on personal level. Obviously football games, we could get in more football games or game watches, wherever, what counts we're in. So there's obviously those typical connections to have.

Impact of Notre Dame Connections

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but I have to, I change even mind because Roman and I were talking about it yesterday, is that we spent two years on campus, never went for one around the lake. And, we went for one around the lake yesterday, while around campus, had the best time ever. I had the opportunity to do that for two years and I didn't. And I feel like such an idiot, for me, I don't want to repeat that. So one of the reasons I keep coming back to campus is that I can change what happened in the past, but at least given I'm an rule now, I can find ways to give back. To the university and continue to get back. It doesn't have to be limited to that two years. It actually can be a lifelong journey. Yes. And I plan to do that. So.

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Well, that's a perfect bridge to my next question. Suggest, in what ways have you have staying connected, been a value to you for the 25 years and think you've been talking about that already? I'll let you think about that. for the sake of diversity, I'll add my own story here. So I didn't grow a business and I'm not as social as John. Well, maybe I am. and I haven't done the leadership at Notre Dame. I truthfully, after I graduated in 2000, I returned back to the San Francisco Bay area, started working, got married, had a family, and I was disconnected, I would say to Notre Dame. loosely connected in the beginning and then less so over the years as I got busy with being a mom and working, until. My son was applying to Notre Dame, right? and I said, oh, we gotta go on a college tour. And all these memories came back, we came here, he fell in love with it. he got accepted, thank you Lord. And we, that just changed everything because now I'm parent, he's in the band, the drum line. I'm all in, coming to football games, I've got the swag. my husband's like, what has happened to you? I'm all in. So, there's different ways that, and that's been a great value. And now my son and I have this thing in common and I can connect to friends and I, through my son, I connected to a couple of NBA friends in the area. And it's just give us a reason to call on one another and say, Hey, I'm reconnecting. How about you? so anything add about the value of your connections to, and this is your.

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I'm still ponding the questions you gave me before that. Okay. The value of fashioning,

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well, what has been the impact on you and the people you've been connected to? Carol, we had talked before a little bit about your work and the impact you've had on the various people, and your network and Black alumni association and your own alumni to be in Southern Cell phone. So there, there

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are. Last night under the tent, I met a young lady who I saw, a young lady who I met when she was a freshman. She is now married with three children, and we're talking about how do we prepare her middle schooler for college. So the idea that all of these years have gone by, I have hundreds of students that I've touched. I don't have any children of my own, but part of what I've dedicated to is that young people do not reinvent the wheel. That drives me bananas 25 years later to hear students struggling with the same things that me experienced as undergrads and graduate students. And I am committed. My purpose in life is to die empty. That everything I learn, study, read, have been exposed to travel for experience is to, for me to hand over to the young people or to hand over to anybody who could benefit from it. Right? and so that's the impact. That's the impact it makes.

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I think similar, Tina, so, so I'm gonna share another funny story and I'll talk about empire. So I'm standing in line at a hotel checkout line in Tokyo. We have an office in Tokyo, say, keep going there once every couple of years. And then all of a sudden I hear. Someone says Che, and then there's no bloody waste. I'm calling my name out in Tokyo in some obscure hotel, which is not even downtown Tokyo. Right. So I ignore it because you know, there could be other Japanese words that sound like such. And then I hear Che again. I'm like, okay. And then I look and it's Yuko who? Her classmate. Wow. And she's standing like 10 feet away from me and we are staring at each other. She drops her badge and like they're show in the movies that she loves running and she, why is that going? And like comes move and I am like, I literally melted to the ground.'cause you know, like early morning flying back to India, had a couple of tough days in Tokyo, so I wasn't in the best of mood, but just to see Yuko just come and give me that. How was the most, so when I think of Japan. I don't think of my Japanese business or the Japanese office. I should think of Yoko and that reception in the

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Okay.

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Hotel. And you know, we spent time and that was the first time I reconnected with Yoko, which is 15 years after I arrived video. Since then I've stayed in touch with, and she's actually on away here, so she's over here a couple of, hours or so. So I think those kind of things, it doesn't have to impact you on a daily basis, but can happen once in a while and I think it has a huge impact on you. I think in terms of impact on business, as I was telling you guys, the company itself is named after Father Newland of Notre Dame. So reminded of Notre Dame pretty much on a daily basis. But you know, every time, you know, I meet a customer, 50% of our sales come from the US so we sell. A lot of pharmaceuticals for heart disease, depression, schizophrenia, like they're selling anti infections. So every time I meet a customer or a client, and I don't do this on purpose, but if I do happen to wear a Notre Dame West, like I'm waiting now, 9.9 out of 10 times, it strikes a great conversation. It breaks the eyes. So there's that barrier that, okay, you know, substitutes from India or you know, new and spinal and Indian company, you know, can we trust them or not? All that gets broken down because now, you know, they talk about Notre Dame, they ask about my experience. So all that shackles are completely broken down. It just becomes a human to human conversation.

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Absolutely. Absolutely.

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Thank you. Sean, do you have anything to add about the impact, these connections have had for you and for others?

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I can't tell a story like that, and I'm a movie guy. You stay on movie scenes from me, jump in here. Still on a personal level, right? I, my business, it's me, myself and I business. So I don't have that much interaction as far as promoting the Notre Dame brand. What it, and what it does happen is obviously sports, it's not on the educational side. So I appreciate what these guys are sharing as far as the impact on the global stage of what Notre Dame brings. So.

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I can add something. You're like, John's like the magnet of our class. Exactly. Yeah. He is not gonna say that, but he's the magnet. So when Carol was organizing our reunion and she got John to come to the meetings, I think people were like, oh, I wanna talk to John. He's a funny guy. Like, so yeah. So people, you know, if you have that kind of personality, if you join a group, like you bring people together, John,

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so what? Mike came, he would always, so when we were sitting in class, we were doing assignments, he would always make sure that I was comfortable or not, because you know, I was 22 and stupid when I came down. I'm close to 50 and still stupid. That hasn't changed. But he would still look for me, JE, are you okay? Do you have everything that you need? So I know exactly what you need? He was that guy who thought about everyone in class.

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And he has had the most personal connections.

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You did that.

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I appreciate.

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I, okay. I'm still thinking of jumping in your arm.

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I don't think

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I'm gonna handle that. I need break. Yeah, he's, he stayed the most connected with classmates we can ask him about. There were 120 of us in our two year program, or 60 in one year program. And I think you've connected personally, physically going to visit people in states and homes and doing social things with more classmates than anybody else.

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Well, that's what happens when you're single and you don't have a family. You have that freedom. one, one of our classmates, I gave him a call years ago. I said, Hey, love to come visit, see you and kids and maybe take'em a little ball game or whatever. His response was, yeah, this summer doesn't work. So that gave me an understanding of what it was to be a parent of young kids and chasing'em around with sports and all that stuff. I'm like, oh, this summer is not good work. So then I understood when other, you know, friends were busy, so, and it gave me appreciation of what my parents did and raising me. I didn't have that chance to have kids to show that or experience that. So I've been experiencing that to my classmates.

Audience Interaction and Questions

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Thank you John. Well, hopefully now you've had some time to think about, what the earlier question I asked of what do you want to, get from this, the session from the panelists. In a minute we're gonna pivot to you, the, you, the audience, and we're gonna ask the panelists, your recommendations for how these lovely people can reengage and reconnect with Notre Dame. But I want from the audience, just one or two people if you wanna share, what you want to hear from the panelists in the next 20 minutes that we have. can I get a hand here from someone, anything in particular that you came to listen to or want to know?

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That could be a sentence or two. Yeah, just what you on here?

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Oh, Michelle. Hi. I'm Michelle, Tim's wife and I was fortunate enough to work with in a Dean's office, and in, she was still married. She Lane in Atlanta. Eight, one. We are retired now and, we have time and, you know, our goal is to play golf and fit stage. That's the great benchmark really. I'm an undergrad at University Tennessee in also, and that's a fairly strong alumni association. But when I got said and went Notre Dame Alumni Association down there was, I, it's like every day something's going on. It's just really

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any,

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anyone

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from the Okay. Just checking. Don't. So,

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you know, it was the, you know, it was term like we got involved in life and work and, you know, it wasn't as easy because, or it just wasn't quite morning. but kind of like up here, we stay. You see sitting in the sperm, how much does this feel like home? Yeah. I think that's one of the things that I've not gotten from any other, from affiliation at the university program. And, you, I think I had you, for me it was unique respect to, civil support with, Carolyn. Yeah, Carolyn Martin. And when I left, I should have brought this picture of me. Anyway, my gift is this huge picture framed of the, both'em. I wanted to be, you know, staff professional, et cetera. what's going on? Yeah, I, this will go. You. Yeah. So, yeah, I think for me, just trust staying here on Ana, hiding that, that feeling. I'm in. Thank

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you.

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nice. And thank you for sharing, Michelle. And yeah, you have that unique experience of being an employee, working with the dean, but having our husband, Tim, in the program with us, and Atlanta, all the clubs, you know, in the different metropolitan areas and have been great resources for all of you. And we encourage you to take advantage of those to reconnect with not Dame, whether you've been disconnected like I was for many years or, or you have been continuing continuously, what are your recommendations? One of you

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in terms of Tim,

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how to reengage or weaken act with not dame your recommendations, thinking about the audience.

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Before that, I wanna ask these two guys that currently class of 2026, how, correct? Yes. There's a couple of things that you guys wanna get away, walk away with today, what would those be? I have no regrets about putting in very young. You're like 50 years younger than I'm gonna find anything to give back into you guys. So

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I'm Brandon Moore. I am doing my internship in Chicago. I run an investment group. I'll say the main thing I'm gonna know is like how to tap in green cycle.

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Go. I care. Yes. What about you?

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Hi Ron. My name is Collins. I bio chef, in Virginia with CBG data. My best one be, be talk to name for current students that where I, the alumni, reading the Gap, but we imagine the most of you. Thanks. Yeah. Yeah,

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go ahead. Buffet. so I love to ask people for support and, most people would say, I rarely get a no. But the reason for that is I think that you can suggest to people in tears the ways that they can, become involved, right? Like you shared, Michelle, you're now retired, you've got free hands, you may have the opportunity to contribute a year's worth of service in whatever ways. So that's one. So think through how much time you actually have that you're willing to offer up. The second thing would be of those constituent groups that I mentioned, which, you know, ts at your own heart, what group of you know that the, that university supports would be of interest to you if you have an affinity, anything. and then the other part is do you wanna provide support at the national level, at the local level, once a year, twice a year, from the next six months or 12 months? And there are Notre Dame clubs, 200 and I should know this number'cause it was in a quiz in our board. We can the other day, but 260 odd, almost 270. And Juliana will help me if I'm right or wrong. around the world and most uni, most large US cities, in fact even small US cities have a Notre Dame club. So that's the first place you wanna tap into and then that can lead you to further,

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So think about this. We're thinking in the marketing terms, right? So who are the constituencies? Who are the people you wanna serve?

Expectations and Networking Strategies

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Right? Yeah. I think for me specifically, but that's anyone or both of you guys. see, too often we get in touch with Notre Dame alumni without context, right? So I do get a lot of emails from a student that's like, Hey, you know, I wanna talk to you now if I'm here, I can physically wake up the phone and talk'cause I'm busy. And, you know, tonight I fly to, now will be for about six days or so. So I think for me, what's valuable is not take the alumni association for granted, do your homework, understand what is it that you want, what are they're up to, so that when you make the connection. You've shown that you've taken interest in them, you've created a con, you've kind of customized, so in marketing terms, you've like literally customized your sales in marketing. But you're not taking for granted. Okay. I'm familiar with Dame, so you're familiar with Dame. So I'm gonna send you an email and I expect you to become a performer. This respond. I don't think we should be doing that. I think that's one way of doing it. Second, as Carol's saying, I've had the same experience. We have a huge know in my office in India, and they're always up to doing something. So I've gone down there, I've met like prospective students and stuff like that. So I think reach out, meet people in their comfort zone. And you know, as Michelle as, Michelle was saying earlier. There's always something happening at the me Dame Club. So the online associations, just invite yourself, go down there to meet people. I think that's the best way to do it. And then when you have the 25th reunion, just show up.

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show up the five and 10 too. Yeah. My recommendation again, I will get it from the six degrees of separation. You guys are first degree to each other. Yeah. Work the first degree. Yeah. Work with your classmates and then you can play to the diff different levels of the alumni degree. I was fortunate enough, one of our classmates, was adopting a child and he gave me a call and he wanted to talk to another one of our classmates. He said, do you have phone number? I said, sure. And I knew he was adopting, so I assumed he was wanting to reach her because she had adopted their child. And I said, oh, you're gonna talk to about, you know, adoption. He's like. No, I wanted to talk to her about the company she's working with.'cause I wanted to possibly look at going to that company. But knowing the connection now from adoption, they're able to make a secondary connection and being able to help each other out without knowing it, without knowing that possibility was there. So there's always that. So it's always good just to be connected. Can you never know what's gonna trigger and helping you out further along, whether it's personal work or business life. I've been fortunate that there's people in this room not be out. I learned along the way, and I'm sure more of the older alumni would understand. there's no ecstasy without agony, and there's highs and lows. And I've had people help me out with some low times, and I'm very grateful for them without, you know, words, cans help me out with that. So understand that people are out there looking to help you. They just sometimes don't know how to help you. It'll miss you, show'em that's not true. So. that's very good. Okay.

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Thank you. Yeah. I just make me think too, about your framework, like globally or nationally. I think I'm definitely the local kind of winded because already because my son's here and I have the history, a little bit of history of Notre Dame, I'm finding that I'm telling other parents, oh, you're applying to that Dame, let me help you. Or it's a great school, or let me give you the ins and outs of what to expect. And I find that brings me a lot of joy, because I believe in the university, I've seen, I've seen it in my own son as what happens in the undergraduate experience. And I want to bring good people and, people with integrity, people who work hard. Now I'm telling people from my Stones High school, Hey, have you considered Notre Dame? I know it's far away from California and the weather's really different, but if you have the right year Yeah, it work. So, yeah, that's, I was just thinking about that. is there any, I have another question. How would you like to, we've talked about how they can reconnect. are there any things on your mind that you would like to, help the university complete or move forward in its mission in terms of a future? So

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I know that father, so university's strategic plan has the six Cs, right? The Catholic nature, the different things that they're committed to, and in particular when Father Bob became. President, he made it clear that he wanted to work more toward the catholicness. So, recruit more Catholic students, as well as increase the African American population. that was part of his priority. So for me, a simple thing I did is I reached out to the 10 local Catholics high schools in Los Angeles and invited their top full performing each school's top full performing African American student. And we had admissions Y out and they came and met with those students and shared with them the experience. I attended the, rally on the road where they invited admitted students to a residence to host. Students and their parents walked up and said they applied because they are speak. That's something. And I gave my experience as a graduate, love of this university and that young lady and her parents, they walked, they were like, we remember you. I was like, okay. Like I did too. But you know, 10th Andrew Al, right. Like, so, that's just one of the,

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one of the ways we can help of the

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Yes is to just think of, think through what the mission of the university is. How does that connect with who you are and what you believe in. And then you tap into the portion that means something.

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So I think for me, I mentioned it earlier where if Notre Dame India is doing like a pro effective student drive, I'll just go down, I'll meet the students, someone coming down from Notre Dame to doing like admissions drive. I'll be part of that. we've opened the only to doing internships for students. Even from time employment, but thinking of sending our employees over here to Notre Dame. So now that's pretty much just growing

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the business. Yeah. Good.

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I guess growing the business connections,

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really. Exactly. And a lot of, particularly American students have now the opportunity for an international experience.

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That's right. Because most of our market, so 50% of Newland's market is here in the us. Another 40% is in Europe, another 10% is out of Japan. So it's, you know, it's kind of a good way to get Yeah. Integrated with what's happening with the global pharmaceutical. Absolutely. It's,

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Hey John, I

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think I'm good right now. The connect. Yes.

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yes. so show of hands, who has updated their profile on, my MD. Great. Okay. We got more than enough here. well, I encourage you to go online, and just make sure the information is accurate, and make sure it's updated so that the university and people like, Carol, who organized our 25th reunion, can't access it. when your reunions come or when you have, a specific area that you're interested in, whether it's faith or Affinity group or just the, you know, international, opportunities. Think about that and make sure you're updated in that information. we have, we have a q and A now just for a few minutes. yes. Can I get a question from someone in the audience, to the panelists if we have about,

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hold on for them about one more question.

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We kind of already, well, yeah, we did. We have 15 minutes in, for a presentation on Irish Compass, but before that, we have a q and a for the next five minutes. Any of the panelists, myself included, to answer a question from you. So is there any other questions that you have for us about what we've spoken about? About the university's commission? Yes. In the app?

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Yeah. I'm Class 99 and here with the Art Affinity Group, the Alumni River. Yeah. community. And specifically to support that because like it's just beautiful for me to see the university make changes over time. Yes. and embrace the new groups of people and new and things like that. I'm about to turn 50 in a year or so, and so maybe we're similar age range, and I'm fine, but like I'm starting to switch from like kind of like how can, how is the university. Sense served me to like, how do I serve the university, but also how do I change the university like we are now? I feel like more and more the change makers of the institutions that formed us. And I'm wondering how you guys reflected a little bit on, you know, like the service you're giving to the community. I'm wondering if you also feel some role in a sense of like shaping, the university as an institution. Great

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question. Yes.

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I think, my view, I could be told you, well, kind strange that I'm sharing my view being all the way in India, furthest away from any of that from, but I think what I've seen work is to actually volunteer time on committees, on advisory boards. Like I was giving the example of not Dam International right. And I advised them on the work that they're doing and through them. I was able to connect to the chemistry department. The biochemistry department started to work with the professors there, and through them you'll find another connection because we are all part of the same community. Right. So I think the best way to give back and influence change is actually to volunteer your time in an area that means a lot to you. And on committees and on forums where they can actually benefit from your time, your input, your wisdom, and everything that you've gathered in the first 50 years of your life. For me personally, that's the way I've been able to make, any impact on it. Usually, you know, throwing money at something sometimes makes it worse. You're not able to actually bring about change, but I think it's gotta be a combination of both. Yeah. That's my thank you

Affinity Groups and Alumni Support

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to that point. I was thinking about what Carol said, understanding the mission. My recommendation would be to really educate yourself on the mission of the university. You know, it's all online and talking to people. And then from that, you can put yourself in the room by volunteering, put yourself in the room so they can, voice is heard in those conversations, and you can speak as an advocate, for, the change that you want to see. And just put yourself in that room or with the people through service, like Soche said.

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Can I add that your presence, your physical presence here supporting Arc is our gay, lesbian, and queer community, and that is one of the affinity groups, that universe that's under the umbrella of the na of the Notre Dame Alumni Association. So those affinity groups, black, Hispanic, native American, Asia, Pacific Islander, arc. Young alums, senior alums, MD Women Connect, all of these are national organizations. Veterans. Sorry? Veterans. And the Veterans. Correct. So all of these are national boards under the alumni association that where each of us might be able to find something to support. But what are, when we are present in the room and we serve in those areas, we have a voice. I am very committed to the African American community on this cabinet campus. And when I'm in my board meetings and the, Dolly Duffy, who is our wonderful executive director of the, Notre Dame Alumni Association, attends our meetings. We get to personally share how, what are the things that are happening at university that impacts this community? when I get to meet with Father Doe, he comes to our meetings and we get to interact with him once or twice. Christina is in the room serving, as the chair of the ha Hispanic alumni Board. When you're in the room, you get to make an impact. Right. And thank you. You can please introduce yourself.

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Just thank you. Thank you for recognizing us. And it's important. I mean, I think there's always been kind of a disconnect between why do we need the alumni groups, you know, we're all in deep, right? Right. and yes, but there's been, right. Certain students and alumni have had different experiences at no Main. And so it's important that we all know that we are here to support each other and help the current students have a better experience so that when they become alumni, which we know they all love, right? they continue to engage with the students and with other alumni in the community. So that's what we're doing.

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And I mean, if there's a vision of a mission that you don't align it. Yeah. Correct. It doesn't make sense to you. Focus on the things that you believe in, and then be on companies where you can actually change the vision and mission, or at least make yourself heard so that you can influence them in the right direction. Don't let that disconnect you, prevent you from doing what?

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The only thing I could add is from hard lessons learned is perseverance.

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Don't expect change to happen overnight. You know, it's like trying to turn a tanker ship on, you know, on a dying. So you gotta just keep pushing and pushing for what you want and not give up. But,

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okay. I, we have a presentation, but I do have one question for the audience, so to, to help serve you in this moment. I'm gonna ask each one of you to turn around and find someone you don't know. Just introduce yourself, the quick elevator pitch. My name this Ryan. This Ryan, this is what I do, and then I'm gonna call on someone to share, that introduction of someone else. So I'm gonna give you just one minute. Can you do that? One minute.

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Hi. Is this architect? Where about.

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Business really are.

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Thank you for jumping on an opportunity to meet someone new right now, in this moment as we celebrate our 25th, reunion. And I'm gonna now, ask, because Juliana said I should take a minute or two. I'm gonna call on someone or. Who? Yeah. How about a volunteer? who wants to introduce the person that they just met, their name, where they're from, what they do, and anything else? Can I get a volunteer? Yeah,

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I see that. I'm Karen Parker, class of eight five. I talk about the, I met Christina. I live in Montclair, New Jersey. Christina lives in New York City pe that book 1981, the first year the door opened and then she followed after that. And so there's all of this thing going on and is an attorney. Who represents governments. Governments and and all these fascinating ways. And she said they will never, her firm will never be without work because Good job guys. Yeah. It a pleasure to meet Christina. Thank you.

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Thank you. I get to Christina too. Liberty, you know, I'm not a big speaker, but I met Jason who went to get his Golden Dome iPad and short San Antonio met her in like, he's got thousand ways to connect to the group. Oh. But just the, Hey, take colleagues 50. I will be back here. Right. Wow. God willing.

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We're here to support you, pat. Yeah. This Okay. Well. That's all we have today. I want to thank each and every one of you for attending. This is a great showing and I wanna give a hand to our panelists.

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Hello everyone. How are you? So first, congratulations to the CLA NBA class of 2000 woo. 25 years. That's beautiful. I realized I was old a few years ago in my role as the Irish Compass program manager. I approved someone who was born the year I graduated. No. So I'm an O2 grad, so I got to celebrate 20 years, about three years ago. Now it goes like that fast, so, oh my goodness. 25. That's awesome. And if you would like to connect. With Carol and Soche and John and Tina Irish Compass is a great place to do that. So right now, I just have a few minutes. I'm gonna wet your curiosity with all that Irish Compass has to do. But I am always available if you have questions, look like a deeper dive. anything I can be reached the question mark in the bottom right corner. You send a message that comes to me and I will answer it. So, I'm Juliana Newville, undergrad class of oh two, and I have been back home at the university and the role as Irish Compass program manager since we launched in August of 2017. So 100% of my role was dedicated to managing this platform. You might say, well, you know, that's a pretty easy role, Juliana, but Irish Compass has a lot to offer, so I hope you're on it. It's, Someone said before it's kind of Notre Dame version of LinkedIn. We might laugh at that, but it really is. I mean, if you are successfully managing your career, you are active on LinkedIn, everyone is. But if you want to bypass the Hello I am and I work here and I Compass is the place because we have the shared experiences, so it's understood. It's only Excl, it's exclusive to students and alumni. So it's understood that you have that Notre Dame connection when you're on. So this is the homepage that's, displayed here. It's kinda your quick access to all things Irish Compass. The more active that you are on the platform, the more the AI serves up things that are similar, maybe people that you've, reached out to, it will proffer up additional people that you might wanna connect with. Articles, resources, Yvette, job opportunities, lots of things on Irish cups of hate. I have a big mouth, so I'm just gonna talk. You can't hear me. Please let me know. The heart of Irish Compass is the community tab. So since we launched eight years ago, over 32,000 alumni have joined, and 10,000 plus students, undergrad and grads. So I hope you're both on Irish Compass. so it's hard to connect with over 40,000 students and alumni and just to point out by design to protect their privacy. Students are not visible, so they're here in the community, but they have to initiate conversation with you. So they'll find your profile and reach out to you. Then you're able to see their profile and connect. So that's by design. But the 32,000 plus profiles that you see are alumni and graduate students. And you can just kind of see, at first glance, you see right across their picture. I hope most of you have a picture on there. Students told us that they were fearful to reach out to someone without APIC picture because they thought they were getting catfish. So alumni put your picture on so you can see your major, your grad year, your name, your role, but you can click into the picture to see the full profile and you're able to review a little more about them. Learn, Hey, I just did that out of the blue and she's MBA at Notre Dame. How awesome is that? See, it's like osmosis. so you could do that at a glance and then you could see profiles. But the search bar and the filters are what's really built in to help you focus your search and find that one alum that you, fellow alum that you wanna connect with. So, the ai, any word that's on their profile, you could search by data and their name could be data or their location could be data. It will find any mention of that on their profile and will identify those profiles. But the filters are much more focused. So industries, with the areas of expertise, you could have multiple industries. It's a great way to search someone, yell out an industry. Automotive, let's see what we, automotive. There we go. See you selected. And 72 of the 32,000 alumni have identified that as one of the industries on their profile. So that's all. Let's, what's another one? Say no. Oh, someone must have been on a her. That's a new one. We just launched not too long ago and 223. I'm impressed. That's less than a year old renewable energy. So they're just, I mean, this is like how you are targeting. So you see that number that 32,000 is getting lower every time location. It's location agnostic. But if you are a world traveler like Carol, and that's on my bucket list now, to take a year off and just go, you can search by location and the global network. So it's not just the United States, but more filters is where the magic happens. So company, organization, we do a lot of student demos. Everyone wants to work at Disney or Amazon. so those are popular searches. You can see how many alumni and work at Disney or Amazon simply by typing the name of the company in there. there's also degree types, which might be a little pertinent maybe to this class. So you could begin typing MBA and select it and click apply. So 68, which I find surprising'cause there's probably more than 68 in this room. So that's a number we're gonna have to work on. You can also combine it with class year. So if you wanna know the MBAs from before class year. Did I pass? I moved through here so quickly on my computer.

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the top. Okay. But because it's a popular one, there we go. So you could even say, between or Exactly. So we could say 2000 and click apply. So although 68 to our oil, so I see a campaign, Carol and Tina to get more, 2000 and even more on there. you've also talked about our clubs and groups. So all 256 of our alumni clubs around the world are on Irish Compass, and you can add that to your profile. So when you join Irish Compass, you answer all these questions and you build your profile. And the more complete you build it, the more you visible in these searches. So please build out, head a picture, build out a complete profile, add as much information as possible, select your club.

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Yeah. Is there a parental status line? I am,

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no. There's name that might not apply to your situation. when we were kind of figuring out what to name it, when we were launching, we did a survey and one of the names came back, Notre Dam. So didn't pass muster, but we considered it. So, clubs and affinity, the groups are all on. So if you would like to connect with members of Arc and d you, Use the filter and you connect. So the focus of Irish Compass is for you to tap the Notre Dame network in whatever way you are looking to tap the Notre Dame network. When we first launched, I said, oh, I want everyone to be on there all the time. You know, like LinkedIn, you're just going in, you're just going in. And my supervisor had to kind of quell my expectations a little, and he said, you know, Juliana, it's there when they need it. And that's what's important. And if you want to give back, which I heard resonate through the conversation today, this is an easy way you join and students and fellow alumni can reach out to you and ask you for your support. Put yourself back in your undergrad and graduate days when you were just on campus, you were trying to figure it all out and had no idea about anything, didn't know any of the traditions, all that important stuff. You could be that level of support for a current student or a recent alum navigating their first job. You've done it. You have that experience, so now you can give back by paying it forward and sharing your expertise. It's just a conversation. That's all networking is. I like to talk, can probably tell, but it's just a conversation. Video conference is built into Irish Compass or you could take it offline, but you are just having a conversation. You know what, tell me about what class you took, what professors, what would you recommend, what would you recommend? That is Irish Compass, so please join and when you join, please be active and engaged because it's only beneficial to students if our alumni are on there and they're able to connect with you. So there's my pitch. There's a lot more that Eish Compass has to offer, but I see that we're at time, so find me. I'm at the alumni association. Or the little question mark in the bottom right corner. Juliana Newville. Thank

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