Building Up and Coaching Your Community College Advancement Team

Catalog

Calendar

Create Account

Availability

No future session

Credit Offered

No Credit Offered

About
Meet the Speakers

Ever feel like you are responsible for so many tasks and priorities that it is difficult to identify what is most important right now? Feel like you and your advancement team could achieve even greater impact? Want to take an hour and invest in your leadership? This session will create space to practice several leadership habits that will help you sustain personal excellence. We will also dive into topics that help you strengthen the components of effective organizational leadership like coaching toward organizational and individual performance goals and establishing the team rhythms and culture to create elevation gains in your team’s advancement strategies.

NOTICE: this is not a passive session! Come ready to reflect, practice, plan next steps, and discover new leadership capacity within yourself.

John Wolfkill
Executive Director, Community College of Aurora Foundation

Joining the Community College of Aurora Foundation (CCAF) as Executive Director in 2016, Wolfkill is responsible for leading the Foundation’s strategic fundraising plan and activities to support the Community College of Aurora (CCA). His primary efforts focus on the foundation’s scholarship program, capital campaigns, and supporting various new program launches at the college. He is leading efforts that have already secured $16 million for CCA’s Center for STEM, Power Mechanics, and Applied Technologies building that will open in Fall 2025. He has worked with board, staff, college leadership and community partners to increase total scholarship awards from $220,000 in 2016 to nearly $800,000 in 2023 and developed internal strategies and cross-college partnerships to support scholarship recipients to earn more than 87% of credits attempted with an average GPA of 3.2 regardless of gender or ethnicity.

John Gyllin
Vice President for Resource and Economic Development, Seminole State College

Dr. John A. Gyllin is an executive with more than 20 years of experience in higher education administration. As vice president for resource and economic development, he also serves as executive director of the Foundation for Seminole State College of Florida, Inc. Gyllin previously served as vice president for advancement and executive director of the college foundation for the College of Coastal Georgia.

Gyllin, a native of Merritt Island, Florida, has been involved in higher education administration since 1996, working specifically in advancement since 1998. Since he joined the College in 2011, Seminole State has been the recipient of six gifts of more than $1 million and also completed a successful comprehensive campaign in 2016, surpassing its $12 million goal by $1.5 million. While at Northeastern State University in Oklahoma, Gyllin coordinated all alumni and fundraising activities on three campuses. In 2009, his team's efforts generated nearly $2 million in donor support, a record for the university, including the institution’s first private million-dollar gift.

Gyllin holds a bachelor's degree in management and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Henderson State University in Arkadelphia, Arkansas. He also holds a Doctorate of Education (Ed.D.) from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.