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In addition to The After College Experience curriculum and After College book, I offer training workshops, coaching packages, and speaking events. I want to save you time and help you maximize your efforts so your organization produces alumni who are thriving in their transition and eager to give back.
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Speaking
Looking to inspire a room full of students, recent graduates, or those who work with them?
Erica is a sought after speaker and facilitator. She brings her passion and animated style to contexts that range from large conferences and events, on-campus chapel services, smaller retreats and senior-send offs, and academic classrooms. She’s also done informal “Ask the Author” Q&A sessions for groups who are reading After College and/or going through The After College Experience. Invite Erica to come to your location or speak via a virtual platform! Inquire here.
Most Popular Talks
- In Transition: What to Expect for What Comes Next
- Is This Really Your Plan? Choosing Hope in In-Between Times (lesson from Habakkuk)
- Where’s Next? The Importance of “Place” After College
- Am I Interruptible? Pressing Pause in the Pressure of “What’s Next”
Training
Looking to equip your team of on-the-ground-facilitators (student affairs professionals, college minsters, church leaders or volunteers) with the best practices for equipping students to thrive?
Learn more about how one of these trainings (below) can help your team gain the outcomes you need, or ask about customized training for your specific context.
Most Popular Trainings
Equipping Students for Lifewide, Lifelong Faithfulness: Overview, Trends, and Best Practices
Train-the-Trainer for The After College Experience Curriculum Delivery
Coaching
Looking for a personalized, results-oriented, one-on-one service for you (or for a small team) that offers the expertise, action plan, and accountability necessary to meet your goals?
Coaching typically involves bi-weekly to monthly (remote) meetings that help a lead person or steering team brainstorm, problem-solve, and process, especially during the creation or implementation of new initiatives or as the lead person/team improve existing initiatives. Coaching offers customized guidance, practical resources, and personalized plans that help you make real change.
To find out if coaching should be your next professional development step, click below to schedule a free consultation.
Success Stories
InterVarsity was years behind where we should have been in how we take care of our graduating students and equip them for the transition. Working with Erica has helped us catch up incredibly fast! She is able to easily pass on her years of experience so that her skills and wisdom start to reside in everyone she trains and works with. She has incredible practical tools to pass on to staff and students alike that make transitioning from college to the “real world” much easier and makes helping those who are making that transition seem possible. We give a copy of her book to every graduating student in our GAPS Program (for graduating students) and encourage all our staff to get it for their students. Hundreds of our staff also use her materials to do senior programming. I have never met anyone as passionate about the college to “real world” transition and those going through it as Erica! She is a joy to work with and that passion is contagious to all she interacts with!
-Ryan Lospaluto, Associate National Director of Alumni Relations, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA
Several years ago I had an idea to help college seniors transition into life after college. But I didn’t know where start. Then I met Erica. Learning from her years of experience with Senior EXIT at Penn State enabled me to start Senior EXIT at Purdue University this year. Consulting with her over the phone during the summer, she shared resources that helped me structure Senior EXIT and advised me to start small when I tried to take on too much. Erica spent time answering a list of questions I asked so I could understand what content and practices are most effective for graduating seniors, how I could collaborate with community members interested in helping, and how I could go beyond content to hospitality. Maybe the most important thing she taught me is that everything I do for the seniors in Senior EXIT should say, “We love you guys and we are rooting for you in this transition. You are not alone.” I’ve now given her book After College to 60 seniors at Purdue, and it serves as the foundation for helping them transition into life after college. The students and I agree: Erica addresses every major area of difficulty and discernment. Her work is a gift to the university, the church, and the individuals who come under her wise direction.
-Rick Whitlock, former CCO Campus Minister at Purdue University
Erica Young Reitz has tremendous compassion, insight and experience understanding the complex landscape of young people launching effectively into adulthood. She is able to communicate clearly and give specifics in how to help this next generation navigate their future. Erica came to Hope College and was gracious, engaging, professional and brought positive energy to the topic of life after graduation. She provided relevant information on issues of faith, relationships, calling, finances and the many decisions that come in a life transition. Her ability to work well with a team as well as bring leadership and wisdom is such a breath of fresh air!
-Pam Van Putten, Coordinator for Mentoring and Internships, Students in Ministry Minor, Hope College
What Erica offers is a hands-on experience — to creatively engage the future — in a non-threatening way. I have to be “in the zone” to make a strategic plan and pursue forward thinking. But when I was in Erica’s class, she asked good questions, as well as used kinesthetic and visual learning to help me debrief the past semester, dream, and set tangible goals to move forward in my work.
-Natalie R. Harvey, former Director of University Ministry for City Church
What Students Say
“You made a connection with us in two days that some speakers don’t make in their whole week of being here.”
Student, OneLife Program
“You get us.”
Student, Malone College
“Thank you so much for the “life after college” [talk]. It definitely made me calm down…. Amazing how you tied in God in the midst of college graduation and personal experience. Thank you so much for understanding and getting it!”
Student, Jubilee Conference
“You spoke in our senior seminar class and I wanted to personally say thank you for coming in and sharing your stories. I found it very insightful to learn about the entire process from someone who has experienced it personally and wanted to let you know that it was very helpful for me.”
Student, Hope College
