Events

Join fellow FGCU alumni for a delightful afternoon at RGNY Winery, featuring wine tastings, sharable bites, and great conversation in the heart of Long Island wine country.

Tickets are $30 per person.

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For generations, we have been conditioned to approach money from a place of caution, scarcity, or mere survival. This is particularly true for women, who often navigate systemic barriers to financial agency. But true wealth is about more than numbers on a balance sheet —it is also about your autonomy, purpose, and ability to drive meaningful change in the world.

In this transformative session, early-stage investor and award-winning author Marcia Dawood reveals how the invisible money stories we inherit quietly dictate our careers, leadership styles, and long-term sense of possibility. Drawing from her extensive career funding high-growth startups and advising federal financial committees, Marcia will challenge you to dismantle legacy mindsets around money. Whether you are looking to scale your career, make more aligned financial choices, or step confidently into the world of investing, this webinar provides the ultimate roadmap to reshape your relationship with capital and unlock a future of true, unapologetic abundance.

About the Speaker

Marcia Dawood is an acclaimed early-stage investor, venture partner, and advocate committed to expanding capital access for diverse companies solving the world’s most pressing challenges. She currently serves as the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Small Business Capital Formation Advisory Committee and is a venture partner with Mindshift Capital. A prominent voice in financial resilience, Marcia is the chair emeritus of the Angel Capital Association (ACA), a global professional society for angel investors, and a founding member of the ACA’s Growing Women’s Capital Group. Marcia is the author of the multi-award-winning book Do Good While Doing Well and the recently released Unapologetic Wealth: Rewrite Your Money Story From Any Beginning. She is also an associate producer on the award-winning documentary Show Her the Money. A dynamic TEDx speaker and host of The Angel Next Door podcast, Marcia has personally backed over fifty early-stage companies and funds, masterfully bridging the gap between early-stage inception and thriving, profitable enterprises.

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Gather with fellow FGCU alumni and friends from the Tampa and Sarasota Chapters for a fun-filled night at the ballpark!

Tickets are $65 per person and includes Rays baseball from the premium Dream Finders Homes Terrace, complete with great views, a ballpark buffet, and complimentary non-alcoholic beverages.

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Artificial intelligence is reshaping the nature of work at a pace that leaves little time to understand what's actually happening, and what it means at the individual level. In this research-grounded webinar, journalist and author Jared Lindzon cuts through the noise to offer an honest, human-centred look at the current moment. Drawing on more than a dozen years of frontline reporting for some of the world's most respected news outlets — and his book Do More in Four — Lindzon explores how AI is putting a spotlight on outdated workplace norms, rules and conventions. Through an exploration of previous periods of rapid change, the latest research and conversations with global business leaders and changemakers Lindzon offers a clear picture of the forces reshaping work as we know it to ultimately help participants navigate them with clarity.

About the Speaker

Jared Lindzon is an acclaimed author, public speaker and freelance journalist who has spent more than a dozen years reporting on technology and the future of work. He is the co-author of Do More in Four: Why It’s Time for a Shorter Workweek, a definitive guide to workplace efficiency in the AI era. A prolific reporter, Lindzon’s work is regularly featured in Fast Company, TIME, the Toronto Star and the Globe & Mail. Lindzon's reporting has also been published by some of the world's top news publications, including The New York Times, the BBC, the Guardian, and Rolling Stone. On stage, he delivers keynote presentations translating complex workforce trends into actionable insights. Lindzon holds a Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario and is based in Toronto.

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Ethical decision-making is central to organizational success, yet many leaders underestimate how isolation, market pressure, and subtle cultural shifts can warp a team's choices. Ethical failure rarely begins with malicious intent; it typically starts with misaligned incentives, unclear expectations, or a belief that "everyone else is doing it."

In this gripping webinar, behavioral ethics speaker Tom Hardin (“Tipper X”) pulls back the curtain on the real-life story behind his cooperation with the FBI during a historic Wall Street insider trading investigation. Moving past surface-level compliance lectures, Tom uses his firsthand experience to demonstrate how easily minor compromises escalate into systemic organizational disasters. He argues that traditional compliance training fails because it treats ethics as a box-checking exercise, ignoring the reality that most lapses are committed by well-meaning professionals operating under poorly managed psychological pressure.

Drawing from his unique vantage point assisting the U.S. Department of Justice, Tom delivers a raw, analytical breakdown of how misconduct takes root in high-performing environments. Participants will explore the mechanics of rationalization and the structural vulnerabilities that allow ethical erosion to go unnoticed. This event provides a battle-tested blueprint to help executives and compliance leaders look beneath the surface, spot behavioral red flags, and transform passive policies into an active, protective culture of accountability.

About the Author

Tom Hardin is the bestselling author of Wired on Wall Street: The Rise and Fall of Tipper X, One of the FBI’s Most Prolific Informants, and an expert in behavioral ethics, compliance, and organizational culture risk. Having delivered over 600 keynotes worldwide, Tom is a leading authority on how human behavior intersects with systemic corporate pressure. Early in his career as a financial analyst, he became a central figure in a historic insider trading investigation, ultimately cooperating with the U.S. Department of Justice to help the FBI dismantle complex illicit networks—an experience that later led the FBI’s New York office to invite him to train their incoming rookie agents.

After taking full responsibility for his actions as a young professional, Tom transformed his life. Today, he channels that profound experience into an ongoing study of human behavior, helping organizations worldwide see ethical trouble before it starts.

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Whether you call it leading, teaching, motivating, or inspiring, the truth is that you are selling every single day. Whether you are pitching a new idea, moving a product, or simply selling yourself, the ability to move people authentically is a critical, life-changing skill for anyone, regardless of their job title. Yet, many of us struggle with the salesperson persona, feeling like we have to sacrifice our authenticity to be effective.

Mindset experts and bestselling authors of The Unsold Mindset:Redefining What It Means to Sell, Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown have spent decades researching what actually makes the world's greatest influencers and leaders tick. Through extensive interviews with everyone from 5-star generals to celebrity chefs, they discovered a surprising paradox: the most successful people don't succeed because of what they do, but because of how they think. They aren't following a rigid script; they are operating from a powerful, "unsold" mindset.

Coggins and Brown move past the mechanics of rapport-building and objection handling to reveal the specific, repeatable mental practices that allow high-performers to thrive in any environment.

About the Authors

Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown are the Wall Street Journal bestselling authors of The Unsold Mindset, longtime revenue leaders, and professors of entrepreneurship. They met at an enterprise software startup, Bitium, which they helped lead to an acquisition by Google. They teach at the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business, where the course they created, "Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs,” has become one of the school’s most popular classes. They are also investors, startup advisors, and co-founders of Agency18, a firm that helps mission-driven companies adopt the Unsold Mindset. Sought-after as keynote speakers and guest lecturers, they love connecting with audiences to share the stories and lessons they've collected from their experiences. Learn more at www.colinandgarrett.com.

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Strike Up Some Fun for Student Scholarships!

Last year, you helped us strike it big—raising more than $35,000 for the FGCU Alumni Association Scholarship Fund!

Join us September 19 at HeadPinz in Fort Myers from 4-7pm for another night of bowling, fun and supporting FGCU students. Every strike, spare and spare dollar helps provide scholarships to FGCU students.

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Join the FGCU NYC Alumni Chapter for an exciting trip to MetLife Stadium as the New York Giants take on the Tennessee Titans. A limited number of discounted tickets are available for this exclusive game-day experience.

Tickets are $85 per person.

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