Board Retirement Gift: A Legacy Interview for the organization's archives.
Celebrate your board member’s retirement with a Legacy Interview, capturing their personal journey and valuable insights.
Record the history of your organization; the significant policies and people of their era, ensuring a rich preservation of institutional knowledge for the organization’s future benefit.
Half-Day Experience
Capturing historical memory.
This is half-day interview focuses on capturing the history and stories about the organization. This board retirement gift will give them a chance to share the lessons they learned while working for your organization.
We will deliver 2 videos for the company archive, one that is full length and another that is edited to be viewed at a retirement celebration (approximately 10-15 minutes long).
Includes:
- 1 In-depth industry interview about your organization and for the archives.
- 1 highlights video of the best stories and anecdotes that can be shown at a retirement party or posted on your website.
Company Archives video: $2,500
Full-Day Experience
Capturing historical memory + a gift for the family.
Make your board retirement gift even more special by adding an additional personal Legacy Interview.
In this special offer we will include a half-day “Company Archives” video for the organization and a half-day private Legacy interview for the family.
This allows your organization to benefit from capturing stories for the company archives and offers a sincere thank you to the family of the board member in the form of a deeply personal private interview about their life story.
Includes:
- 1 private half-day Legacy Interview.
- 1 In-depth industry interview about your organization and for the archives.
- 1 highlights video of the best stories and anecdotes that can be shown at a retirement party or posted on your website.
- Catered lunch or dinner.
Full Day Interview: $4,500
This Board Retirement gift is special.
When a person from your company retires you will miss a lot more than their daily contributions, you also lose the stories and wisdom that made your company successful.
Listen to Doug Rushing talk about how his stories were captured after retiring from Monsanto.
Learn about the host: Vance Crowe
Vance has worked around the globe; the World Bank Group, the U.S. Peace Corps, in media at NPR and PBS stations, and even as a deckhand on a ship. Vance holds a degree in communications from Marquette University and a Master’s degree in negotiations from the Seton Hall School of Diplomacy.
Vance is a fellow at the Center for Peace Studies, an honorary member of the Alpha Gamma Rho Agriculture Fraternity and the 2021 Communicator of the Year for the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers (ASFMRA).
What others are saying:
You will capture the lessons learned and
help the future understand the organization, policy and people of the era."
Watch Vance interview:
While most Legacy Interviews are private, we received special permission to post this interview online with John Werner.
This shortened version of a Legacy Interview gives you a sense for how guests open up and share their stories.
Take the first step
Contact us to find out if this is right for your organization, or to book your interview.
Click here to view an example gift pamphlet for you to provide your retiree.
Airport and Hotel
If you book your retiree with Legacy Interviews we will personally pick them up from the airport (about 12 minutes away) and will help assist you with booking a hotel right next to the studio.
