Loyalty, Advocacy, Insight

Design Programs for Growth

Once your core community is live, the next challenge is growth and depth:

  • How do you spot and nurture your most engaged members?
  • How do you create programs, events, and roles that keep them invested?
  • How do you turn that energy into retention, advocacy and insight at scale?

Is this you?

This service is for organisations who:

  • Have a community that’s up and running, but want stronger engagement and advocacy
  • Want to build Super User / HEM / ambassador programs, but don’t know where to start
  • Need to organise meetups or chapter communities around regions, products or segments
  • Work with volunteers, moderators or hosts and want to support them properly
  • Want to connect community with influencers, creators, and advisory boards without losing authenticity

If you want your community to move beyond “questions and answers” into advocacy, events and co-creation, this is where that happens.


What Engagement & Growth Management can cover

You can use this service for one project or a joined-up program across your whole community ecosystem (forum, Discord, social, in-app, offline).

The heart of your community

Super Users & Ambassador Programs

Identify and support the members at the heart of your community:

  • Define what ‘Highly Engaged Members’ (HEMs), Super Users or ambassadors look like in your context
  • Design value exchanges: recognition, access, rewards and responsibilities that feel fair and motivating
  • Build ongoing engagement plans (e.g. beta testing, content co-creation, advisory calls, early access)

The goal: a core group of members who champion your brand, share knowledge and set the tone for everyone else.

Alive and Amplified

Events & Campaigns

High-impact moments that keep your community feeling alive and valuable:

  • Plan event series: AMAs, masterclasses, live streams, office hours
  • Design cohort-based experiences: challenges, sprints, learning cohorts, beta programs
  • Build integrated campaigns that tie together content, product, events, and referrals
  • Create post-event follow-up flows so momentum doesn’t drop the next day

Every event and campaign is designed to drive specific behaviours: sign-ups, contributions, referrals, product usage, or feedback.

Case Study

Airbnb: Building a Global Community of Hosts

Read about how we support Airbnb run their global Host Clubs program across local chapters and online groups.
Bring online connection into the real world

Meetups & Chapter Communities

Turn online activity into real-world connection:

  • Define how local leaders are selected, onboarded and supported
  • Create event playbooks: formats, agendas, safety and accessibility guidance
  • Set up simple reporting so you can see where meetups are thriving and where more support is needed

Whether you’re supporting a handful of chapters or a global network of local groups, you get a model that scales without chaos.

Community First Creators

Influencer & Creator Collaboration

You may already work with influencers or creators. The question is how they show up in your community:

  • Design collaboration formats that feel authentic to members (AMAs, co-created content, events) 
  • Set disclosure, behaviour and safety guidelines for creators inside community spaces 
  • Align influencer campaigns with your community calendar

This helps you plug creator energy into your community without damaging trust.

How a typical Engagement & Growth project works

01

Discover & Design

  • Audit current engagement, member segments and existing programs
  • Clarify your growth goals (retention, referrals, NPS, content, product adoption, etc.)
  • Prioritise the programs that will make the biggest difference first
02

Pilot & Launch

  • Co-design pilots for your chosen program(s) with clear eligibility and success criteria
  • Support your team with comms, onboarding, documentation and tooling
  • Run the first cycle, gathering feedback from members and internal stakeholders
03

Manage & Optimise

  • Review what worked and what didn’t, and make adjustments quickly
  • Create sustainable rhythms (e.g. quarterly cycles, monthly events, annual advisory board terms)
  • Build reporting that links program activity to business outcomes

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