Alumni Engagement & Volunteer Leadership
Build a roadmap for alumni or volunteer leaders, including roles, outreach language, training materials, and a realistic engagement calendar.
About Glenn
Why This Work Is Personal
Glenn Smith-Perrot’s path to this work began long before his career did. He grew up in foster care, spent time in a group home, and went on to earn his college and graduate degrees. That journey taught him early how much it matters to have people, systems, and opportunities that help you see what is possible and find your way forward.
It is why he brings care, honesty, cultural awareness, and intention into every space he enters. He understands that students, families, alumni, and communities are often carrying more than what is visible, and that the right support can change the direction of someone’s life.
Through Smith-Perrot Consulting, Glenn brings that lived experience together with nearly a decade of work across higher education, mentorship, alumni engagement, student success, and community-based access.
At the heart of the work is a simple belief: people should not have to figure everything out alone. The goal is to build programs, relationships, and pathways that help people feel seen, supported, connected, and ready for what comes next.
Services
What Glenn can help you build.
Clear plans, workshops, mentorship models, engagement roadmaps, and coaching support for organizations, students, and families.
Mentorship Program Design
Create the structure for recruiting, matching, onboarding, communicating with, and supporting mentors and participants.
College Readiness & Student Success
Design workshops, family resources, student handouts, and transition tools that make the next step easier to understand.
Speaking, Facilitation & Leadership Learning
Develop talks, workshops, agendas, discussion guides, and participant activities for student, alumni, staff, or community audiences.
Global & Cross-Cultural Education
Shape cross-cultural learning sessions, international alumni engagement ideas, U.S.–France partnership concepts, and global education briefs.
Student & Family Coaching
Support college applications, first-generation navigation, university transitions, academic challenges, and moments when a student or family needs a clear plan.
Who I Work With
Built for organizations, students, and families who need practical help.
Most of the work is with institutions and community partners. Students and families can also reach out when they need a steady guide through an education decision or transition.
Colleges and universities
Scholarship programs
Libraries
Youth-serving nonprofits
Foundations
Alumni and mentoring programs
Global education organizations
Community-based organizations
Students and families
Ways to Work Together
Choose the kind of help you need.
Pick the entry point that matches where you are right now: a student or family question, a speaking request, or an organization project that needs shape.
90-Minute Strategy Consultation
Best when your organization has an idea, a stuck project, or a possible grant or partnership and needs a clear next step.
- Clarify the goal, audience, and intended outcome
- Identify a practical project model
- Leave with priorities, risks, and next steps
Coaching Call
Best when a student or family needs help thinking through college applications, first-generation questions, a university transition, or a hard academic moment.
- Talk through the current situation and immediate priorities
- Identify options, questions, and next steps
- Leave with a clearer plan for what to do next
Speaking or Facilitation
Best for college readiness events, leadership programs, first-generation student sessions, alumni gatherings, and conversations where people need both honesty and hope.
- Align on audience, goals, tone, and format
- Develop a talk, workshop, or facilitated conversation
- Provide practical takeaways for participants
Four to Six Week Strategy Sprint
Best when you need something written down and ready to use: a roadmap, curriculum outline, mentorship model, alumni plan, or partnership launch plan.
- Discovery review or light audit
- Draft roadmap, calendar, or program model
- Implementation plan with practical next steps
Selected Experience
Experience that shows up in the work.
These are a few places where Glenn has built programs, shaped relationships, supported students, and helped communities connect.
NYU experience across student success and engagement
Nearly 10 years at New York University across student advising, scholarship programs, alumni relations, volunteer engagement, global communities, and structured program design.
Global alumni engagement work
Developed, delivered, and submitted NYU’s Global Clubs Connect initiative, which was recognized with a 2026 CASE Circle of Excellence Silver Award in Engagement, Volunteer Engagement.
View CASE recognition →NYU Stern program and mentorship design
Designed mentorship programming for NYU Stern’s Summer Jumpstart Institute, taught leadership curriculum, and led Proud to Be First Gen with corporate partners and colleagues across NYU.
Fashion Scholarship Fund experience
Current work at the Fashion Scholarship Fund focuses on alumni experience, career readiness, mentoring, and helping scholars and alumni stay connected beyond a single program moment.
Community-based college readiness
Designed college readiness programming with Jersey City libraries and serves on the Jersey City Free Public Library Foundation Board.
Mentorship pathways and student navigation
Designed and supported mentorship pathways through NYU Stern, America Needs You, iMentor, and a British-American Chamber of Commerce collaboration with Stern Scholars. Glenn also works with students on college applications, university transitions, and difficult academic moments.
Institutional references describe Glenn’s professional experience and do not imply sponsorship or endorsement by current or former employers.
Work With Glenn
Tell me what you are trying to figure out.
Send a short note about the program, workshop, speaking engagement, coaching need, roadmap, or partnership you are thinking about.
Common ways to work together
Work can begin with a consultation, coaching call, speaking engagement, workshop, strategy sprint, or defined program design project.