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The CEO Symposium provides a unique opportunity for you and your volunteer leader to maximize the leadership partnership. Explore how you can best work together to effectively carry out your association's mission and enhance future success. The expert faculty from Tecker International, LLC, will help you and your leadership partner come to a common understanding of roles, responsibilities, and relationships in association governance and strategy. Facilitated conversations and interactive exercises will help you confidently and enjoyably lead your organization in the upcoming year.

Adapted for the virtual environment, this edition of the CEO Symposium will address:

• Current and anticipated challenges facing leaders of contemporary associations
• Value of research and strategy in knowledge-based decision making
• Relationships of board and staff in association governance
• Leadership behavior and its impact on change, innovation, and organizational culture
• Building and sustaining trust in a virtual or hybrid work environment

Program Overview

Each day includes one 15-minute break and one 40-minute break.

Day One: 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET

Day Two: 11:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. ET

Registration for this event will close March 3, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. ET.

Please note: This program is designed for team participation, requiring at least one staff professional and one board leader to jointly attend.

 

Speaker Info

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Glenn H. Tecker

Chair and Co-CEO, Tecker International LLC

Glenn H. Tecker is chairman and Co-CEO of Tecker International. He has more than 35 years of experience assisting associations and not for profit corporations in planning for change. Glenn is widely acknowledged as one of the world’s foremost experts on association leadership and strategy. He has worked in an executive capacity with businesses, public agencies, and nonprofit organizations and served as a board member for a number of nonprofit and for-profit organizations. Glenn’s expertise is in the areas of governance, leadership, program strategy, evaluation, organizational design, and research & analysis. His celebrated presentation skills will be critical to any effort. Glenn was inducted into ASAE's Academy of Leaders in 1998. Glenn is the author of articles and posts published by the American, Canadian, and European Societies of Association Executives. He has been a keynote speaker for mission driven organizations around the world. He is also the primary co-author of three best-selling books – "The Will to Govern Well: Knowledge, Trust and Nimbleness"; "Building a Knowledge-Based Culture: Using 21st Century Work and Decision-Making Systems in Associations"; and "Successful Association Leadership: Dimensions of 21st Century Competency for the CEO". Currently he serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Guide Dogs for the Blind Foundation and America’s Vet Dogs in NY. He has also served as Board Chair for New Hope Academy – a nonprofit multi-campus nontraditional alternative school in Pa.

 

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Cheryl Williams

Senior Consultant, Tecker International LLC

Cheryl leverages more than two decades of Fortune 50, corporate, global nonprofit and consulting experience to help clients thrive by providing best in class coaching, capacity building and communications expertise to mission-driven organizations. Cheryl has dedicated her career to helping organizations plan, develop and communicate to increase their impact. She thrives when she is working to develop breakthrough marketing communications strategies to help organizations refresh and grow their brands, increase their contributed income or enter new markets. When not helping organizations with market and communications, she’s helping them plan strategically and leverage their resources effectively to reach their goals and achieve their missions. Cheryl has extensive experience working with global organizations and understands the dynamics of planning global marketing strategies. She spent more than a year living in Singapore and was responsible for developing and implementing an external relations plan to rebuild a luxury skincare brand’s reputation in four Asian countries and to establish it around the globe. Even with a busy career, Cheryl has put aside her time and expertise to volunteer for a number of organizations including the United Lutheran Seminary, the Baltimore Design School and Baltimore CenterStage.

 

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Gregory J. Fine, FASAE, CAE

Principal Consultant, Tecker International LLC

With more than 25 years of successfully helping organizations grow and prosper; combined with boundless energy, passion and enthusiasm, Greg's collaborative approach delivers the insight, strategies, and resources necessary to turn intent into action.

Prior to joining Tecker International, he served as executive vice president and CEO of CCIM Institute, a 13,000-member international professional association. Before that, he was global CEO of the Turnaround Management Association. With a reputation for organizational change and innovation, his diverse and successful career has provided him with deep and comprehensive expertise that informs all of his work.

Greg is a respected and engaged volunteer leader. He served on the ASAE and ASAE Foundation Boards, Association Media & Publishing Board - including tenure as president, the DigitalNow Advisory Group, is faculty emeritus for the U.S. Chamber's Institute of Organizational Management and was a member of the Chamber’s Association Committee of 100. He is prolific writer and speaker, most recently co-authoring a chapter in Professional Practices in Association Management (4th edition 2021). He is a sought-after and highly rated speaker for audiences around the world.

Among many awards, Greg received the 2017 Association Forum "Inspiring Leader" award; the 2009 "Young and Aspiring Association Professional" by Association TRENDS; and the Angerosa Research Foundation's inaugural "Publishing Trendsetter," an award recognizing innovation that advances association publishing. CCIM was the inaugural recipient of the Association Forum Welcoming Environment Award® in 2018 and he was recognized as one of Crain’s Chicago 2020 Notable LGBTQ Executives.

Growing up in Missoula, Montana, Greg was a leader from his earliest years. This included becoming one of the state's youngest elected officials in history when, at age 18, he was elected to the Missoula County High Schools Board of Trustees. He was re-elected twice and served as Board Chair. He is a graduate of The University of Montana with a BA in PSc and History Minor, currently resides just outside of Chicago in Harbor Country, Michigan, is an avid world traveler, and an award-winning amateur poet.

 

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Jim Meffert

Principal Consultant/Strategist, Tecker International LLC

Jim Meffert guides leaders to deliver meaningful impact for the populations they serve by building a culture of innovation through the process of thinking, planning and acting strategically. He leans on over 30 years of executive leadership and consulting experience, to help guide professional associations, foundations, civic organizations, corporations, government entities, and individuals through transformative change. Jim specializes in developing focused strategies, crafting targeted business plans, streamlining governance, and executing large-scale initiatives. His inquisitive and open nature has helped to establish him as a trusted advisor to leaders across sectors.

 

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Testimonials

"The ASAE CEO Symposium provides a uniquely curated experience designed to enhance the partnership between the Chief Staff Officer and Chief Elected Officer. We are excited to continue to provide this highly regarded program in a live, realtime virtual format. This format allows organizations who might find the in-person program challenging to their schedule or resources the chance to participate in the program.

While the program focuses on the unique and shared leadership capabilities required of each to successfully lead an association, many organizations find it beneficial to bring other members of their volunteer leadership line to the in-person program. The virtual program offers that same opportunity.

We are particularly excited about the addition of an AI based collaboration platform that provides the opportunity for participant interaction and engagement without having to be sitting next to one another at a table. The digital Symposium will provide the interaction, actionable content and connections attendees count on from the in-person program."

Gregory J. Fine, FASAE, CAE
Principal Consultant
Tecker International

"I am impressed with the thoughtful approach to the sequence of learnings and top notch delivery- with excellent case studies."

Chris Morrill, CRP, Chief Executive Officer
Government Finance officers Association

"I have attended the ASAE CEO Symposium for many years and always have found it to be an important opportunity to continually update and better understand the ever-changing nature of association management and governance."

Douglass E. Henley, MD, FAAFP, Executive Vice President/CEO
American Academy of Family Physicians