Summit Speakers Agenda

Welcome to the Thriving Community Summit 2022. Here are our speakers line-up.

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Lea Woodford

CEO SmartFem Media Group

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 15:00

Amplify Yours & Your Member’s Influence with Magazines

In this session you will be taught:

  • The latest trends to help companies move to the next level in that ever-changing digital space. 
  • How magazines both online and in print can be used to elevate you, your business and your members in your community.
  • How to get sponsorships for your magazine.

Joy Lucinda

CEO the commUNITY GRID

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 14:00

How to use mentorships and pilot projects to elevate members and foster belonging.

In this session you will be taught:

  • Start-up strategy and the need to stay focused on what it you want to create. 
  • How to help your community members make what's on their mind a reality by networking.
  • Mutual intergenerational mentorships.

Jessica Mclaren

Founder of Next Level Life

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 13:00

Leverage community as a powerful environment for the three stages of learning.

In this session you will be taught:

  • How to use the 3 stages of learning to build a successful community.
  • Evolving and transformation as a way to retain the members of your community.
  • The key factors to help you build a thriving business.
  • Being able to detach from the outcome by constant conversations with different people.

Gary Barnes

President, Gary Barnes International

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 11:00

The Art of Connection through Unconditional Collaboration

In this session you will be taught:

  • The secret to success through unconditional collaboration.
  • The three step process in how to connect with people.
  • Be relevant, launch and adjust.
  • Stage your public.
  • How to discover the inner celebrity in YOU and make that useful as being a part of a community.

Chris Holter

President, Chris Holter Consulting

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 10:00

Use the E-Factor to create success for yourself and your community

In this session you will be taught:

  • How to regain your energy when your batteries are low.
  • Shifting from anabolic to catabolic energies.
  • The best way to start a meeting or a live with your community revealed.

Dr. Carolyn Eddleston

Director of Cycles of Change

Time: April 29, 2022 @ 09:00

When you thrive, your community thrives

In this session you will be taught:

  • The different effects the seasons have on our bodies.
  • Changing how to rest and work according to seasons, by mimicking the outside.
  • Investigating ourselves and acknowledging what we feel or our current state is.

Elaine Taylor-Klaus

CEO, Co-founder ImpactParents.com

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 15:00

Write your way to powerful and valuable content

In this session you will be taught:

  • Writing is a way of thought leadership.
  • Listen and respond to the input of your members.
  • Moderate the narrative, do not control it.
  • Create a collaborative culture that opens up for innovation.
  • Make sure that written content is easily visually accessible.

Dr. Pamela L. Gay

Senior Scientist, Astronomer

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 14:00

Those tools you’ll need to build a community that is robust in our changing world

In this session you will be taught:

  • How to attract your target community members at events.
  • Even homogeneous communities may still be different in terms of a lot of factors and you need to find your own niche.
  • Celebrate diversity in the community by allowing everyone to be themselves.

Charlott Fagergård McAnsh

Co-Founder of See No Bounds

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 13:00

Connecting people through innovative community events

In this session you will be taught:

  • How to widen your community.
  • People need people.
  • The importance of walks and talks.
  • Listen to your community.
  • The importance of face-to-face.

Phin Mpofu

Director of Community & Partner Success, Startup Grind

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 11:00

Discover the opportunity and potential of hybrid events in your community.

In this session you will be taught:

  • The importance of a hybrid strategy.
  • The fundamental principle of having two audiences.
  • Internet connectivity varies across the globe.
  • Tips for smaller communities.
  • Gaming communities are competitive.

Craig Forman

Lead People Scientist, Culture Amp

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 10:00

Building authentic communities beyond marketing or customer success initiatives

In this session you will be taught:

  • Keep your philosophy simple when starting your community.
  • Transitioning from In-person to virtual to hybrid events.
  • How to make Zoom events fun so you can veer off the fatigue.

Liam Austin

Co-Founder of Entrepreneurs HQ

Time: April 28, 2022 @ 09:00

Use virtual events to build, grow and powerfully serve your community

In this session you will be taught:

  • How to identify your end goal after the virtual summit.
  • Build authority as a crucial part of motivating people to join your summit and do high ticket purchases.
  • Inviting the right tier of speakers to your event can drive your opt-in rate.

Carl Spindler

Superuser & Community Moderator

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 15:00

Scale your Community with the help of Superusers

In this session you will be taught:

  • Inviting regular or super participants in your community to be moderators can help you as the manager get voice from the team and lessen the burden on tasks.
  • Members of your community feel compelled to volunteer once they see the value of their help and when they like the community they are in.
  • You may assign multiple community members as moderators of your community.
  • User management is important to moderate communities.

Cary Richards

Successful cold outreach using powerful email copy that is attention grabbing and apparent to your target leads

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 15:00

Successful cold outreach using powerful email copy that is attention grabbing and apparent to your target leads

In this session you will be taught:

  • Email as a powerful tool in marketing.
  • How to know who the cold leads are to reach out to
  • What subject lines to put to get the reader's interest and make them stick to read the email you're sending.
  • How your initial (and follow-up) emails should look like.

Jephtah Abu

Community Manager @Cerulean blue

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 14:00

A practicable approach to creating more welcoming community spaces and actively encouraging DEI

In this session you will be taught:

  • A fresh view of intentional creation of DEI from the perspective of a person of colour living in Africa.
  • Learning DEI from different places without making assumptions.
  • Hiring people with diverse gender and ethnicity is just the first step.
  • Personalising your onboarding template makes it more inclusive.
  • It's really important to have a clear code of conduct.
  • You have to have a definitive why for creating subgroups.

Jahin Tanvir

Founder of Breathe & Youth Advocate

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 13:00

How to use diversity & inclusion together with adaptive leadership to build thriving communities

In this session you will be taught:

  • Diversity is a super power and you may use it to elevate yourself.
  • Empowering leadership by inspiring young people to do better by opening up conversations. 
  • Empathy as a fundamental part of leadership.

Brooke Daily

Building Community @ Topia.io

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 11:00

Speakers Session title (coming soon)

In this session you will be taught:

  • The conditions for authentic connection that enable communities to experience deep belonging.
  • What emergent leadership means.
  • Participatory design is a concept that extends far back.
  • How to build in person online and hybrid communities.
  • Ask the community want they want and give them the space to lead.

Nicole Saunders

Director, Community at Zendesk

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 10:00

The essential leadership skills to run your community support and management groups.

In this session you will be taught:

  • What does it mean to and how to get into a leadership position by being cross-functional.
  • How to lean on the competencies of different areas of the company to produce better output in projects.
  • The challenges on implementing the cross functional team strategy.
  • Being comfortable in asking questions.

Alex Angel

Chief Community Officer, Commsor

Time: April 27, 2022 @ 09:00

Community-led Growth Model explained

In this session you will be taught:

  • Product led vs community led growth concept.
  • Interconnecting different divisions and departments in a company to feed one another.
  • Community as a rocket fuel to the success of the business.
  • Looking at KPIs to measure impact of community led growth.

Sam Jacobs

Founder & CEO of Pavilion

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 15:00

The Dos & Don’ts of Community Building

In this session you will be taught:

  • Paid vs free.
  • How communities can serve introverts.
  • Community as a mechanism to help other people to help them get best practices.
  • Using community as a means to build products and services.
  • Your members become your product.
  • The true philanthropic or altruistic purpose of community.

Josh Grose

Head of Growth at Common Room

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 14:00

Segmenting community membership to build impactful and well-received community programs

In this session you will be taught:

  • The business value of delivering a healthy, vibrant communities.
  • The segmentation practice, hyper-personalization and why it's important to communities.
  • How to avoid the echo chamber approach on listening to members.
  • Building programs using the results of segmentation.

Mike Rizzo

Community-led Founder, MarketingOps.com

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 11:00

Use Niche Groups to Drive Engagement And Elevate Members’ Uniqueness

In this session you will be taught:

  • The importance of creating niche environments to make engagement opportunities easier.
  • What to do to get the community involved once these environments are created.
  • Identify how to elevate the opportunities the members and the community needs.

Penny Power OBE

Community Creator and Founder of BIP100

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 10:00

Creating paid communities based on your values, purpose and your company’s why.

In this session you will be taught:

  • The distinction between creating community and building an audience.
  • How to close the gap between what we portray online vs who we really are as a person.
  • How your authentic self will attract more people to do business with you rather than the performance you put online.

Ben Davies

Community Manager, Smokeball - Ex Canva

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 15:00

Flywheels, hedgehogs and longing: the keys to creating community led growth for your business.

In this session you will be taught:

  • The flywheel effect.
  • The hedgehog strategy.
  • Community lead growth as a way to scale businesses.
  • A product journey is about getting advocates.
  • Money may be an answer to your community question, but it's not really it.

Victoria Cumberbatch

Community Expert & Consultant

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 13:00

The Essential Tools Every Community Manager Needs

In this session you will be taught:

  • Have unity highlighting the complexity of the community managers job.
  • The tools she uses to create thriving communities.
  • The different metrics to measure success depending on the community’s goals.

Pramod Rao

Leveraging Community-led Growth for your B2B SaaS Product

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 15:00

Leveraging Community-led Growth for your B2B SaaS Product

In this session you will be taught:

  • How community-led growth can outlast a company.
  • Community members keeps coming back because of the contents built by other members.
  • Community building is in it for the long game.
  • Five steps framework of the community building flywheel to create. a seven star experience for your members.

Joshua Zerkel

Head of Global Engagement Marketing, Asana

Time: April 26, 2022 @ 09:00

Meet people where they are by creating a multifaceted community

In this session you will be taught:

  • Why just having a forum is not enough to build a thriving community.
  • Which pillars you need to cater to your community members.
  • Empowering regular members to participate and make events that benefit the community.

Mike Morrison

Membership Site Expert

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 13:00

New member onboarding process for higher engagement and better member retention

In this session you will be taught:

  • The importance of not only onboarding but also the retention of members.
  • The 6 steps on how to help new members feel a warm welcome and get used to your community.
  • Golden nuggets from his years of experience in living and breathing in community membership.

Brian Oblinger

SVP, New Products, Commsor

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 11:00

Avoid overwhelm when building community with an operational & business-minded approach

In this session you will be taught:

  • The questions you need to ask yourself when creating a new community.
  • How much time do you need to properly launch a community?
  • The first person you need to hire to attract people to join your community.

Stu McLaren

Membership Expert, Co-Founder of Searchie.io

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 14:00

How to scale our communities and tap into the great opportunities an expanding membership site offers

In this session you will be taught:

  • Focus on conversion points.
  • Give members a reason to stay in your community.
  • Making big decisions around your team members managing the community.
  • Streamline content management.
  • Leverage alternative sources of revenue from offers to your existing members.

Todd Herman

Author (Alter Ego Effect), Co-Founder Upcoach

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 09:00

Use Rhythm to Create an Incredibly Engaged Audience

In this session you will be taught:

  • Create a beautiful structure.
  • Spectrum in the world of pedagogy.
  • How to create a container.
  • Critical to create rhythm.
  • Use social media as a feeler.

Gina Bianchini

CEO Mighty Networks

Time: April 25, 2022 @ 10:00

Use the Community Design(TM) Framework to build lucrative, self-perpetuating communities

In this session you will be taught:

  • The mindset you need to enter community building.
  • The fundamentals in community design.
  • 5 steps of how to break though the fear of designing a community.
  • How to design experiences for members.
  • The importance of monthly themes.

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