Association Leadership

For long time equity advocates, the fight to eliminate bias, discrimination, and exclusion is nothing new. My parents fought this fight, as did their parents and grandparents before them.

Inclusive leadership requires us to release old ways of thinking, act with humility, and open ourselves to new perspectives.

I recently attendeded ConferenceDirect's Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Conference (D22) at the Hilton City Center in Denver, CO. This represented the organization’s first annual event bringing together a diverse group of meeting professionals, ConferenceDirect associates, and industry partners to explore a range of DEI topics and how they affect meetings and events.

Are you struggling with employee, member, or client engagement? Does it seem like everyone is? What does engagement have to do with DEI – Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion?

College Station is the economic hub of the Brazos Valley, which is home to everything from technology startups to family farms and everything in between!

Last year, TSAE published our Diversity + Inclusion Association Assessment Tool as a resource for our members to use in their own Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) efforts. With this being our DEI Issue, we wanted to bring it back again for those of you who are new or may have missed it in the past.

Austin and the nearby cities of Round Rock, Bryan College Station and Georgetown offer many opportunities for entertainment and leisure outside of meetings and conventions.