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Booth OC Summer Reception: Orchestrating Connection

Chicago Booth 天美传媒 Club of Orange County

May 8, 2025: 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

Booth alum and UCI Prof. Noah Askin shares principles from upcoming book, Orchestrating Connection, out this summer.

Where

Brio Italian Grille
774 Spectrum Center Dr.
Irvine, California

Event Details

We are more "connected" than ever—yet paradoxically lonelier and more isolated. The need for meaningful connection has never been more profound. Orchestrating Connection: How to Build Purposeful Community in a Tribal World is a call to action for anyone concerned about this fragmentation, offering a compelling vision of how to weave genuine relationships that foster belonging, collaboration, and collective impact. The future belongs not to accidental collections of neighbors or aggrieved online groups, but to communities built with intention, guiding principles, and a give-and-give attitude.

Orchestrating Connection doesn't just provide a new way to think about our social world—it's a how-to blueprint for creating the DNA to build it. Weaving together the key principles of diversity, vulnerability, curiosity, generosity, and gratitude, Askin and his co-author Super Connector David Homan describe how consistent rituals, explicitly communicated values and expectations, and a carefully crafted culture help solidify each community's collective identity.

Cost

$30 for a beverage (wine, beer or soft drink) and heavy appetizers

Registration


Deadline: 5/7/2025

Speaker Profiles

Noah Askin, PhD (Speaker) '14
Associate Professor and Faculty Director of Leadership Development Institute, University of California, Irvine

Noah Askin is an Associate Professor of Organization and Management at UC Irvine's Paul Merage School of Business, where he also serves as Faculty Director of their Leadership Development Institute. An award-winning teacher and researcher, Noah is an expert in organizational dynamics, leadership, and culture, focusing on the informal networks of communication and connection that drive organizational life. Noah's work has garnered him recognition on the Thinkers 50 Radar list and has been covered by various publications, including the BBC, The Economist, Rolling Stone, NPR, Vox, and Forbes.  Noah received his PhD from Chicago Booth in Organizational and Economic Sociology.

Questions

Celeste Liou, '10 

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