LinkedIn is one of the most important tools in advancing your career. The platform is much more than about landing a job, it is about advancing purpose filled networks and should be a critical part of your toolbox.
In this highly interactive live workshop we will cover concrete and proven strategies to radically grow one's network, career and impact. You will hear from Dr. Craig Zelizer, leading expert with decades of experience working in diverse social change sectors who have built one of the world’s leading platforms and communities on social impact careers.
This is a unique opportunity to radically improve your LinkedIn profile, strategy and take actionable steps to improve your engagement that will lead to long-term benefits for your career and learning.
PCDN has helped hundreds of impact professionals around the world advance their careers of impact through individual career coaching, cohort based courses on Maven , customized workshops on careers for dozens of organizations in person and around the world ranging from Georgetown University, Brandies University, University for Peace, Rotary International, Expovoluntariado, and dozens of others.
When: Thursday, February 12, 2026, 11 am to 1:00 pm EST
Note if you're a Career Campus Member or You Join the Career Campus the workshop and many other benefits are included in your membership.
Cost: $30 for the Workshop and Resources
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A LinkedIn Mindset Shift: Move from transactional connection requests to purpose-driven networking that builds genuine relationships with fellow changemakers
Optimized Profile: Real-time profile improvements that typically increase engagement by 2-5x and attract mission-driven organizations actively seeking talent like you
Personal LinkedIn Action Plan: A concrete daily engagement strategy and relationship building approach tailored to your specific impact focus area
Algorithm Optimization Strategies: Understanding exactly how LinkedIn's algorithm works and how to leverage it to get your impact work seen by the right people
Advanced Search Techniques: Step-by-step methods to identify and connect with key decision-makers at social enterprises, nonprofits, climate organizations, and impact funds
6-Month Recording Access: Revisit key strategies, reference specific techniques, and continue learning at your own pace + all handouts from the workshop
Impact-Focused LinkedIn Groups Guide: The most valuable LinkedIn groups for social entrepreneurs, nonprofit professionals, climate advocates, and changemakers
AI Tools That Actually Help: Smart ways to use AI for LinkedIn content and networking while maintaining authentic connections—plus the AI mistakes that can hurt your reputation
Building an Amazing Feed:How to grow curate and grow your feed to be impact first.
PCDN has helped me and thousands of others with their careers through your website, through your publications, and now through your videos. The PCDN team are truly brilliant at networking for impact and their deep insights into how to use LinkedIn as a key tool in building collaboration and advancing one’s career are truly unique.
Dr. Mary Hope Schwoebel
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Dr. Craig Zelizer, Connector, Innovator, Professor, Changemaker, & Social Entrepreneur. Exploring the Future of Work, a More Equitable World + Angel Investing 4 Impact.
Dr. Craig Zelizer is the Founder of pcdn.global, which connects a global community of changemakers to the tools, opportunities and inspiration to build careers of impact and scale change. He has strong tri-sectoral experience in social entrepreneurship, higher education and the nonprofit sector. From 2006 to 2016 he served as a professor in the Conflict Resolution program at Georgetown University and still teaches periodically an adjunct course on social entrepreneurship.
He has led trainings, workshops and consultancies in over 20 countries organizations including with the International Panel on the Information Environment, USIP, USAID, CRS, Rotary International and others. Craig is a recognized leader in the social sector field. He has received several awards including George Mason’s School of Conflict Analysis and Resolution’s alumni of the year award and an alumni career achievement award from Central European University.
Dr. Zelizer spent two years in Hungary as Fulbright Scholar and was a Boren Fellow in Bosnia. He has published widely on innovation in higher education, international development and peacebuilding. He is the co-host of the award winning Social Change Career Podcast and teaches widely on AI for impact.
