Impactful Presentations and Keynotes
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Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
Custom Presentations and Keynotes
ROI can partner with you to co-design a custom presentation or keynote that inspires your audience to act. Our presentations:
- Are grounded in wisdom and experience
- Encourage empathy
- Inspire community-driven action
Looking for a more structured training? Explore ROI’s training options instead:
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
Our Presenters
Vichi Jagannathan
ROI Co-Founder
Vichi is a 2017 graduate of the MBA program at the Yale School of Management. She began her career as a high school science teacher in Northampton County, NC through Teach For America.
She then spent two years on the West Coast leading the expansion of Microsoft’s TEALS computer science education program into California. In 2016, Vichi participated in the Innovation Next accelerator, where she received coaching from IDEO in human-centered design to develop a mobile sex education app called Real Talk, which has been downloaded over 10000 times in over 100 countries.
She also interned with Self-Help Credit Union in Durham, NC where she created the strategy for Self-Help’s branch expansion into Eastern North Carolina, namely Rocky Mount. Vichi earned electrical engineering degrees from Princeton and Stanford Universities.
Seth Saeugling
ROI Co-Founder
Seth began his career as a high school special ed teacher in both Warren County, North Carolina (through Teach For America) and Hayward, California. He then worked with Tipping Point’s T Lab to build a community doula program which supported building positive parenting and attachment techniques for vulnerable, first time mothers in Oakland who had experienced trauma.
This doula program was informed by and modeled after the same principles as the Nurse-Family Partnership program. Seth was trained in the human-centered design process by Frog Design. In the summer of 2016, Seth conducted participatory research and created the investment strategy for a $20 million endowment for rural community development. In 2017, he completed a project in Boston for Roca’s Two-Generation high-risk young mothers program to improve their programming and metrics + evaluation to move outcomes for the children in the program.
Seth began his career as a high school special ed teacher in both Warren County, North Carolina (through Teach For America) and Hayward, California. He then worked with Tipping Point’s T Lab to build a community doula program which supported building positive parenting and attachment techniques for vulnerable, first time mothers in Oakland who had experienced trauma. This doula program was informed by and modeled after the same principles as the Nurse-Family Partnership program.
Speaking Topics
01.
Centering Community in Social Change
How do you develop deep, trusting relationships with members of our community with lived experience, and then co-design and co-build solutions together? We know that the answers are all around us, in the lived experiences and backgrounds of the people within a community. However, community members often do not have a seat at the table in designing solutions that will eventually impact them. This keynote explores how to operationalize centering community in social change work.
02.
Resilient Design in Rural Communities
Rural areas experience underrepresentation in government and underinvestment in institutions and social infrastructure. In fact, less than 1% of philanthropic investments go to rural communities. Moreover, rural communities are often asked to look for urban settings for “best practice” solutions that do not work in a rural context. This topic explores how to reverse this pattern by designing solutions with rural communities first, and in the process, unlock new areas of innovation that people can benefit from in all settings.
03.
Powerful Ways of Thinking: Systems Thinking & Design Thinking
Design thinking centers humans in the creation of programs, policies, and products. Systems thinking is a way to analyze how behaviors and beliefs are connected and reinforced in our communities, like wires and nodes on a grid. One of ROI’s greatest strengths is operationalizing these ways of thinking, and doing so in a way that centers community voice and input. This topic explores how to implement design and systems thinking in any context.
Photo by Travis Dove for Teach For America. Used with permission.
04.
ACES, Trauma & Resilience
How does trauma show up in our daily lives? At ROI, we use the Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale (ACES) as a tool to name and understand trauma. This presentation covers how to build trauma-informed programs, policies, and practices at your organization.
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Testimonials from our Partners
“The keynote from ROI about the importance of investing in community engagement and creating the space for residents to inform how non-profit programs are created was very inspiring. The presentation made me want to hold myself and my staff to a higher standard.”
Non-Profit Executive Director
“The ROI team struck a balance of meeting the audience where they were at while also giving clear, actionable strategies that attendees can implement tomorrow.”
Program Officer at Philanthropic Organization
“The presentation was clear and easy to follow, they did a good job breaking down complex topics and making them accessible and understandable.”
Local Elected Official
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