AACRAO
Speakers Bureau

Bring AACRAO expertise to your institution. Our Speakers Bureau connects colleges, universities, associations, and other higher education organizations with experienced professionals for keynotes, presentations, and facilitated sessions—virtually or in person. Our speakers bring practical experience across admissions, enrollment management, financial aid, registrar operations, leadership, communications, student success, data-informed decision-making, and emerging issues in higher education. Each engagement can be tailored to your audience, goals, and available time.

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Explore ways to improve the efficiency and accuracy of admissions operations through stronger processes, policies, technology, staffing, and information management.

Learn strategies and tactics for increasing yield, reducing melt, and helping your institution achieve its enrollment goals.

Explore best practices for developing and managing comprehensive learner records, badges, microcredentials, and other digital credentials that communicate learning beyond the traditional transcript.

Build the skills and strategies needed to lead institutional change, engage stakeholders, support individuals through transitions, and incorporate change management into implementation planning.

Learn how coaching and mentoring can support leadership development, succession planning, employee retention, and engagement across a multigenerational workforce.

Evaluate whether your institution is communicating the right message to the right audiences through the right channels, and develop coordinated recruitment and communication plans that make effective use of your marketing budget, staff, and technology.

Strengthen your ability to communicate with diverse audiences, deliver effective presentations, build rapport, manage conflict, and lead through clear, purposeful messaging.

Learn approaches for developing enrollment projections that support institutional budgeting, academic planning, residential capacity, and other strategic decisions.

Receive FERPA training tailored to your institution’s needs, including foundational compliance, faculty and staff training, electronic records, data privacy, and specialized compliance concerns.

Build greater understanding of financial aid administration, regulatory compliance, and the strategies needed to manage change, mitigate risk, and support student success.

Explore ways to streamline the financial aid process, improve communication, use financial aid as a recruitment and retention tool, and make effective use of scholarship and grant funding.

Develop the competencies needed to create and communicate a vision, build effective teams, navigate challenging environments, and foster a healthy culture of leadership and followership.

Learn how to use institutional data, reporting, benchmarks, and governance practices to guide planning, allocate resources, and communicate your institution’s story.

Build the skills needed to work effectively with local and national media, promote institutional initiatives, prepare talking points, and communicate during times of crisis or scrutiny.

Explore the strategic and operational decisions involved in developing a one-stop student services model, including its mission, audiences, services, staffing, and role in retention and advising.

Examine the factors affecting student persistence and develop a coordinated retention strategy that addresses barriers, strengthens support services, and improves student outcomes.

Develop a coordinated recruitment strategy that aligns enrollment goals, audiences, messaging, channels, budgets, staffing, and technology.

Explore how the registrar’s role is evolving from transactional record keeper to strategic institutional leader supporting student success, technology, compliance, and innovation.

Better understand the needs and barriers facing adult learners and other special populations, and explore learner-centered approaches to programs, services, and institutional processes.

Learn practical steps for developing, implementing, and sustaining an actionable SEM plan that aligns enrollment priorities with your institution’s mission and long-term goals.

Learn how to assess student services, develop meaningful outcomes, and use evidence to improve programs, allocate resources, and strengthen SEM planning.