1. 2013 RI CONVENTION
How do We
Attract & Retain
Young
Professionals?

2. 2013 RI CONVENTION
Your Rotary Coordinator
Panel Members
• Per Hylander, Zone 16
• Peter Davey, Zone 18A
• Karen Wentz, Zone 34
• Venky Venkatesh, Zone 5
• Mary Beth Growney Selene, Zone 28

3. 2013 RI CONVENTION
• Young professional
• Young children
• Young business
• Too busy?
• No Time?
• No Money?
Dispel the “Myth” we Use as a Crutch

4. 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

5. 2013 RI CONVENTION
Identification of young professionals in
the community

6. 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

7. 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

8. 2013 RI CONVENTION
-Skills, energy, future
leaders, networks
Value of attracting young professionals
as members

9. 2013 RI CONVENTION
• Professional
• Forefront
• Fashionable
Club Image

10. 2013 RI CONVENTION
• 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

11. 2013 RI CONVENTION
Which is the Rotary Club of the Future?

12. 2013 RI CONVENTION
• For a Rotary Club
• For Rotarians
• For Young Professionals
• For the Family of Rotary
OPPORTUNITIES!

13. 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

14. 2013 RI CONVENTION
• What is our Relevant USP?
• Choice of Exclusive Clubs/ Existing Clubs
Make it Attractive

15. 2013 RI CONVENTION
Identify Core Group of:
• Rotaractors
• Next Gen
• Others
District Level

16. 2013 RI CONVENTION
Questions & Comments

17. 2013 RI CONVENTION
How do We
Attract & Retain
Young
Professionals?
Thank You