Upcoming Alumni Events

Virtual – The Coach Is In! April 10

School of Business alumni have continued access to career guidance and resources after graduation. Schedule a 45-minute appointment with a career coach for help with resume review, mock interview prep, job search strategies and more.

Entrepalooza – Demo Day

The students, faculty, and staff of the Wake Forest University Center for Entrepreneurship invite you to Entrepalooza: A Celebration of Entrepreneurship on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Entrepalooza is the annual marquee event for the Center for Entrepreneurship, and we welcome the opportunity to have you join us. Startup Lab Demo Day at 4:30 pm in Brendle Auditorium, Scales Fine Arts Center during which student-entrepreneurs will make investor-ready pitches. This will be followed by a Keynote Address by Veronica Miele Beard (P 26), an entrepreneur and brand-builder at the intersection of style, culture, and technology.

Hylton Lecture: Kim McCaslin (’93)

The Hylton Lecture Series in Accountancy was established in 1980 to honor Delmar P. Hylton, who started Wake Forests accountancy program in 1949 and helped build it into one of the top accounting programs in the nation. This year’s Hylton lecture will be presented by Kimberly McCaslin (’93), Partner and Head of the North America Portfolio Group at Bain Capital. Kim McCaslin joined Bain Capital in 2006. She is a Partner and Head of the North American Private Equity Portfolio Group. Prior to joining Bain Capital, Kim was a Vice President of M&A and Corporate Development for Capital One Financial. Before that, she was a Principal at Mercer Management Consulting, where she advised companies across a variety of industries. Kim started her career at Accenture, focusing primarily on business process redesign and financial systems development.

Atlanta – School of Business Alumni Happy Hour

School of Business alumni who live and work in the Atlanta area are invited to an informal networking event to expand their local black and gold network! Hosted by Atlanta area School of Business Alumni Council members, we invite you to wind-down with fellow Demon Deacons in a friendly neighborhood sports tavern. Your $10 registration fee includes two drink tickets [beer/wine] and appetizers. Drop-in anytime between 6:00 and 7:30 p.m. We look forward to connecting with you!

Virtual – The Coach Is In! April 22

School of Business alumni have continued access to career guidance and resources after graduation. Schedule a 45-minute appointment with a career coach for help with resume review, mock interview prep, job search strategies and more.

Virtual – Career Clinic: Power-Up Your LinkedIn Profile

LinkedIn is a powerful tool professionals use to stay informed on industry trends and news. It’s also a very helpful tool in a job search. If used properly, LinkedIn can work for you while you are not working. It can connect you with alumni, recruiters and jobs. Learn how to power up your LinkedIn profile and get this tool working for you by improving your personal brand in an impactful way. This virtual session, led by Sharron Vogler, Director of Alumni & MBA Career Development for the School of Business, is open to School of Business alumni.

Biz Deac Sips & Snapshots

Join us for a relaxed and family-friendly gathering at Campus Gas! Connect with fellow Wake Forest alumni, MBA students, and their families over delicious appetizers, beer/wine and drinks while capturing memories with a professional photographer. As a special gift, enjoy a complimentary headshot or digital family portraitperfect for updating your professional profile or framing a special moment. Bring your family, catch up with old friends, and make new connections in a casual and welcoming setting. We cant wait to see you there! Your $10 adult registration fee provides two drink tickets (beer/wine) and food. Please register adult guests. Children are welcome to attend at no charge. Open to School of Business alumni and students.

Executive Education – Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation

From Preparation to Execution: Build Essential Skills for Effective, Value-Driven Negotiations. Fundamentals of Effective Negotiation is a one-day session designed to introduce you to the ABCs of negotiation and how to build a strong foundation of how to think about, prepare for, and execute negotiations in a variety of contexts (e.g., client negotiations). Through this session, you will gain greater understanding into the five fundamental questions you should ask before every negotiation to enhance your negotiating effectiveness. Additionally, you will explore different negotiating approaches, assess your own negotiation style, and learn how it may influence your negotiated outcomes. Finally, you will gain practice negotiating in both two-party and multi-party negotiations, much like the ones you might encounter with clients, coworkers, and/or supervisors. Through these experiences, you will gain a deeper understanding of how to negotiate both assertively and collaboratively in order to create greater value-adding agreements. Deadline for registration: April 22, 2025 Register Now

Virtual – The Coach Is In! May 8

School of Business alumni have continued access to career guidance and resources after graduation. Schedule a 45-minute appointment with a career coach for help with resume review, mock interview prep, job search strategies and more.

Executive Education – Leveraging a Growth Mindset for Personal, Team, and Organizational Success

Fostering Agility, Innovation, and Performance for Lasting Impact Our view of the skills and capabilities we possess has a tremendous impact on our performance, happiness, and ability to learn. By believing in our potential for personal and professional growth, and pursuing each through communication, collaboration, innovation, and openly addressing challenges and stumbling blocks, we create new opportunities to grow and develop. This one-day workshop will focus on the principles of growth mindset, using the research of Carol Dweck and her colleagues as a foundation. This interactive program is designed to help you embrace challenges as opportunities, to be more resilient in the face of adversity, to pursue your goals with reckless abandon, and to help others do so as well. We will focus on your own development of a growth mindset as well as ways to influence your workplace and team to adopt this way of thinking. The program will be highly interactive, focusing not only on understanding growth mindset and related concepts, but on exercises and discussions to actively develop these skillsets. You will apply program learnings to your real-world environment in consultation with other like-minded participants, as well as develop a personal action plan to take you forward. Deadline for registration: May 8, 2025

Virtual – The Coach Is In! May 22

School of Business alumni have continued access to career guidance and resources after graduation. Schedule a 45-minute appointment with a career coach for help with resume review, mock interview prep, job search strategies and more.

Virtual – Navigating the Network

Interested in finding connections using the School of Business alumni network? Let us help you! The Alumni Engagement team is hosting a series of virtual “Navigating the Network” sessions to show you the capabilities of both Wake Network & LinkedIn so that you can connect with fellow Deacs by company, industry or city. This is a great opportunity for those interested in relocating or making a career change. This session is open to School of Business alumni.