How Do We Attract and Retain Young Professionals

2013 RI CONVENTION

How do WeAttract & Retain

YoungProfessionals?

2013 RI CONVENTION

Your Rotary CoordinatorPanel Members• Per Hylander, Zone 16• Peter Davey, Zone 18A• Karen Wentz, Zone 34• Venky Venkatesh, Zone 5• Mary Beth Growney Selene,

Zone 28

2013 RI CONVENTION

• Young professional• Young children• Young business• Too busy?• No Time?• No Money?

Dispel the “Myth” we Use as a Crutch

2013 RI CONVENTION

• Rotary Coordinator, 2010-2014• Zone 16• Iceland, Norway, Denmark, part of

Sweden, Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania (Lithuania will a single District in 2014)

• 15 Districts (16 on July 1, 2014)• 35,000 Rotarians

Per Hylander, PDG

2013 RI CONVENTION

Identification of young professionals in the community

2013 RI CONVENTION

• Ask the local Rotaract Club

• Start a new Rotaract Club– Ask your (grand)

children aged 25-40– Advertise

• Set up a – RYLA– New Generations

Service Exchange or – another vocational

training

• Use your database from YEP and GSE

• Read the news about successful young proff.

• Make good relations to– Round Table– Junior Chamber– High Schools,

Universities

• Rotarians <50 use their professional relations

How to identify young professionals

2013 RI CONVENTION

• Rotary Coordinator, 2011-2014• Zone 18A• Southern England and two Clubs in

Wales (including his own – Monmouth Rotary Club)

• 13 Districts • 24,000 Rotarians

Peter Davey, PDG

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-Skills, energy, future leaders, networks

Value of attracting young professionals as members

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• Professional • Forefront • Fashionable

Club Image

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• Rotary Coordinator, 2010-2013• Zone 30• Six States in east-central USA, from

Indiana to Alabama, also called the “Heart of America”

• 12 Districts• 32,800 Rotarians

Karen Wentz, PDG

2013 RI CONVENTION

Which is the Rotary Club of the Future?

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• For a Rotary Club• For Rotarians• For Young Professionals• For the Family of Rotary

OPPORTUNITIES!

2013 RI CONVENTION

• Rotary Coordinator, 2010-2013• Zone 5• Southern parts of India, Sri Lanka

and Republic of Maldives• 14 Districts • 54,000 Rotarians

Venky Venkatesh, PDG

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• What is our Relevant USP?

• Choice of Exclusive Clubs/ Existing Clubs

Make it Attractive

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Identify Core Group of:• Rotaractors• Next Gen• Others

District Level

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?Questions & Comments

2013 RI CONVENTION

How do WeAttract & Retain

YoungProfessionals?

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