The Post-Course Alumni Engagement Blueprint

Create a high-retention flywheel for your course grads without the headache of online platforms.

Don’t let your grads
drift away.

It sucks to teach an amazing, heartfelt, transformative course and then have everything you’ve built just fizzle away.

You bust your butt on marketing to find the people who need you. Facilitating the course takes a ton of energy.

You can’t babysit a Facebook group on top of all your other jobs. So grads just scatter and you’re lucky if they open your emails again.

The Reality Check

"We poured a decade of research into solving this problem. We think it’s the simplest, easiest, least-burdensome way to keep your alumni connected... WITHOUT more content, facilitation or 'community'-building, because you have enough to do!"

The answer is the art of
alumni-to-alumni conversations

The Old Way

Building community is a hard job. It’s exhausting to burden yourself with facilitation, giving away free time to the loudest members while hidden leaders drift away.

The New Way

Stop trying to gather them into groups. Pair them up for conversations related to their shared interest. 1:1 conversations are easier to schedule and less work for you.

"Imagine a scalable way to keep people connected that keeps them coming back for something that’s NOT your content."

5 Ways to Pair Your Grads

Which of these do you think your grads would value the most? Remember, we’ll do all the heavy lifting!

Practice Partner

Perfect for interpersonal skills like interviewing, pitching, or nonviolent communication. They’ll value the chance to practice live.

Accountability Partner

For new habits like writing or lucid dreaming. A space to share snippets of work, little victories, and metrics.

Brainstorm Buddy

For applying your framework to life and work. Best for open-ended, generative dialogue and sense-making.

Empathy Buddy

If they are on the front lines or facing major changes, they benefit from listening and reflection within a clear framework.

Identity Reinforcement

For innovative ideas. Opportunities to reinforce the meaning of their network membership and activate shared identity and mission.

5 Pitfalls of Buddy Systems

1.

You just tell people to “find a buddy.”

Telling people to "look around the Zoom room" is overwhelming. It won't happen.

2.

You pair people up once and never revisit.

A recipe for awkwardness. What if they don't get along? How long are they stuck?

3.

The Auto-matching Foreverbot.

Random coffee bots (like Donut) quickly become irritating and conversations stay superficial.

4.

DIY Spreadsheet Hell.

Trying to pair them yourself leads to administrative nightmares and chasing flaky people.

5.

You do nothing.

Loyal advocates and serious practitioners scatter to the winds.

The Art & Science

Creating an engagement strategy requires intentional design. Here are the five principles that work:

Programs, not forever

7-week programs, not open-ended commitments.

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Depth, not surface

Prime them with prep cues. Default to 1 hour.

Opt in, Opt in

Only prompt people who want to meet THAT WEEK.

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Assign roles

Assign who takes point to schedule. This is gold!

Log the conversation

Get insight into what happened to identify flakiness.

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We can help you.

Don’t suffer on. It’s a huge waste, and infinitely demoralizing, to have people you’ve hustled to recruit and labored to teach fizzle away from you after you’ve created so much amazing momentum with your incredible course.

Keep all those people who have already fallen in love with you connected to your work.

Ready to build your flywheel?

Book a call and join the 2026 waitlist so we can get your alumni community connected!