Workshop: Scaling Community ✨
by Tatiana Figueiredo and Tony Bacigalupo.
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This is for you if:
You're leading an online or IRL community and are exploring how to grow it sustainably.
You have a coaching, consulting or other 1:1 service and are looking for ways to go wider with your expertise.
You're building an online group and want to add an IRL event strategy (or vice versa!)
Feedback from past workshops…
🛣 A step-by-step approach to designing, building, and scaling a community.
🔢 The different types of community business models and what’s working now.
🚀 Paths to scaling your community without scaling your team.
What you’ll learn
Who we are
Tony Bacigalupo
When I started working from home in 2006, I quickly realized that I needed to find a new way to get out of the house and work alongside other people. I soon discovered there was a burgeoning new movement called coworking that was bringing together other people around the world who felt the way I did.
I quickly got involved, eventually leading the charge to open Manhattan's first coworking space, New Work City. As time passed, I became an active participant and leader in the open-source coworking movement, which has been responsible for the word becoming a household name today.
Along the way, I got to be a part of the scaling of both open-source community movements (Coworking, Jelly, and BarCamp), and chapter-based ones (Girl Develop It, Cotivation, others). I learned all about the challenges of scaling community and the best ways to avoid burnout while setting up for long-term success.
I’ve since worked with hundreds of leaders to help them develop and grow their communities, both in-person and online.
More recently, I was Director of Community at Mighty Networks, where I worked with hundreds of people to develop and implement strategies for their growing paid online communities.
Tatiana Figueiredo
When I was 10 my family immigrated to a suburb of NYC from a small town in Brazil. I didn't know anyone and didn't speak English. I remember feeling a deep need to belong in this new place and to find a way to be accepted.
That period of my life shaped who I am and what I care about.
I’m a community business strategist, teacher, and founder of The Business of Community, a learning organization helping community founders scale values-driven community businesses.
I’ve helped a diverse group of community founders perfect their business models, community experience, and grow sustainable businesses.
Before focusing on supporting community founders, I worked in international sales, marketing, and was the first hire and head of product at Imperative, a tech solution for building community within organizations via peer coaching. As a community builder, I previously built and grew Techfest Club, an in-person community for women in tech in NYC with 2000+ members.
I believe our childhood experiences with connection and belonging play a major part in the communities and businesses we build. Part of my job is helping community founders unlock those experiences and leverage them to build stronger communities.
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