Contact the Leadership Alliance Executive Office:

• Confirm that a speaker is a Doctoral Scholar
• If you are a Doctoral Scholar or faculty member at a Leadership Alliance institution and are interested in speaking at a specific school, we can connect you with the Institutional Coordinator.

Coordinators, you are responsible for:

• Contacting speakers directly to invite them to speak
• Coordinating and paying for their travel. To help keep costs to a minimum we encourage you to invite a speaker that can travel the same day to/from their home to your institution or who would require only one-night hotel lodging.
• Finding a location on campus for the event
• Publicizing the event on campus, if applicable
• Sending out the invitation and collecting RSVP, if necessary
• Publicizing your event on The Leadership Alliance Connect Website 

Speakers, you are responsible for:

• Arranging your own travel. If your visit requires that you stay one-night, see if the institution has negotiated rates with local hotels in their area.
• Informing the executive office of the following detailed information:
  • Speaker name
  • Event title/date/type
  • Format of event (i.e. panel, lone speaker)
  • Number of  attendees
  • Feedback from contact
  • Feedback from speaker

The Executive Office is responsible for:

• Processing reimbursement for travel and hotel
• Collecting the event information as outlined above from speakers and coordinators

After the event Speakers and Coordinators should:

• Send the receipt or invoice directly to the Executive Office for payment
• Post photos of the event on the TLA Connect website.
• Inform the executive office of your experience and how the speaker series program could improve.