A quick 5 minutes on some guiding thoughts you might find helpful as you embark on a journey to launch a formal Corporate Alumni Program and create a long term relationship with your former employees. The key to a successful program is to build your Alumni Community, Values, Vision and Offering with your Alumni not for your Alumni. If you include this community of former employees early, listen, engage, share and treat them as a stakeholder they will be more vested in the success of the program.