Vancouver Alumni Branch

Welcome to the Vancouver Alumni Branch! We’re an enthusiastic group that is working to maintain and grow a strong regional alumni network through activities and services.

Aligning our activities with the values of Royal Roads, we strive to bring a wide range of professional development topics and events that have as their central themes collaboration, learning, sustainability, creativity, and trust.

We welcome and encourage participation from alumni – should you have any questions or comments, please contact the Vancouver Alumni Committee. The Vancouver committee members are Kosta ChatziSpiros (Chair), Keena Hicken-Gaberria (Vice-Chair), Chris Friemond (Communications), Doreen Myers (Alumni Membership), Agnes Tao, and Simon Wills.

You can also connect with the Royal Roads University Alumni Relations team at Alumni.Relations@RoyalRoads.ca for all matters relating to alumni.

Join the Vancouver Alumni Branch LinkedIn discussion group.

Come join us!

Upcoming Event

WakeUp with RRU: Getting Ready for Tomorrow's Workplace

Canada's workplace is changing rapidly and companies that don't keep up risk losing their competitive edge. Here's what we face in British Columbia alone according to the BC Labour Market Outlook 2010 ‑ 2020 released last year:

More than one million job openings are expected by 2020.
Close to two-thirds of them will be due to retirements from the current workforce.
One-third will be new jobs due to economic growth.

But with only about 650,000 students currently in our K to 12 education system, this projected growth in job openings leaves a very big gap to fill.

If you are worried by these numbers you need to be at the next Royal Roads University Vancouver Alumni Association event where Dr. Linda Manning, an Intercultural economist, Senior Fellow at the University of Ottawa and founder of Leadership Mosaic Inc., will talk about reframing challenges of workplace change into leadership opportunities.

An award-winning teacher and researcher, Linda will lead us through a fast-paced presentation that will include:

10 Ways the Workplace is Changing ‑ Demographics and Technology
Changing Demographics ‑ generations and cultures
Changing Workplaces ‑ Space and Time
What does this mean for you and me?
Reframing Change into Opportunity ‑ for Personal, Professional, and Organizational Growth.

You need to be there.

Friday, June 8, 2012

The Vancouver Club, 915 West Hastings St., Vancouver.

7.00 ‑ 7.30 Registration, breakfast and networking

7.30 ‑ 8.20 Keynote presentation

8.30 ‑ 9.30 Networking (optional)

Cost: $48.48