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New 2020-2021 TSAE Board Chair Tiffany McGee, CAE talks about her journey in association leadership and why TSAE has played such an important role in her career.

Our new board members were installed virtually in July and will officially be recognized in October during the New Ideas Annual Conference.

COVID-19 has caused most to rethink the appropriate delivery methods for the various learning and networking opportunities that comprise their respective education portfolios.

This decision to shift to a virtual platform has impact across all areas of the event, including the question of how to generate value for sponsors and exhibitors.

With the support of my association, I joined TSAE, got involved on committees, joined the Certified Association Executive (CAE) study group, earned the CAE, spoke at New Ideas, and finally, served on the Board of Directors for the last three years.

We didn't choose this awful pandemic, but we are choosing to use its fallout as an opportunity to create a more powerful and valuable experience for our attendees.

If you are an association executive director or head of events charged with shaping the next decade for your association – this is your chance!

Th recent about-face in the job market has left associations asking themselves how they can make their career center an increasingly valuable resource for their members both in the midst of the COVID-19 crisis and in the aftermath and recovery.

There are several rites of passage for association work, but probably none is more controversial than “brainstorming.” The mere mention of the term elicits equal number of exasperated eye rolls and hopeful eyebrow raises.

We are all overwhelmed by information these days. So much is coming at us from so many sources that it’s hard to know what to pay attention to, what to trust, or how to put things in context.