Arlene Pietranton, PhD, CAE is CEO of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association and recognized as a top association and non-profit innovator.

We're talking about the most important aspects of creating an innovation culture for an association -- a culture that enables us to deliver the best value for members.

It begins with a question ... how can we make this better? Sometimes it means we grow this or move that. Sometimes it's incremental and sometimes revolutionary when things need to transform. And sometimes it's an opportunity to be proactive -- to rethink, reformulate, reshape in response to disruption.

Regardless, associations need to be an innovative, collaborative environment, able to navigate change across these different perspectives. Listen in to learn how ASHA has developed such a culture.

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Eboni Wall is the VP of Global Strategy and Innovation for the Produce Marketing Association who leads innovation conversations inviting all staff to get out of their ruts and out of their own way.

Having an established innovation process encourages ideas from staff that will help membership and internal operations and culture. Part of that process is knowing that when you try new things, there will be failures -- and that is a great part of the innovation process. It’s all about learning from those failures and adjusting based on what you've learned.

Eboni shares how PMA developed their strategy and built an innovation welcoming culture that has allowed them to achieve some big wins along the way.

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Amanda Kaiser is a membership engagement specialist who has personally interviewed over 470 members to better understand why human beings engage in communities online and during conferences. She is also a professional speaker, co-founder of the Incubator Series and author of the popular SmoothThePath.net blog.

Earlier this year, Amanda teamed up with Matchbox Virtual Media to produce the Virtual Networking Incubator Roundtable — one part lab, one part tech testing ground and one part problem solving event — where over 150 association leaders met with one goal: to determine if virtual networking events could be meaningful.

In this episode we will unpack strategies and tips from the Incubator to help you plan your next virtual or in-person networking event.

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Celisa Steele and Jeff Cobb are co-founders of Tegoras and co-hosts of the Leading Learning podcast. Each has spent more than 20 years designing, developing, delivering, and marketing adult lifelong learning, continuing education, and professional development. At the forefront of learning technology trends, they have developed deep expertise in helping organizations grow and improve their continuing education and professional development.

In this episode we explore the key trends in adult learning that associations should be considering as we think about a post-pandemic future and the educational strategies that will help the association capitalize on them.

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Bruce Rosenthal is a strategic advisor and consultant to associations and not-for-profit organizations, creating successful corporate partnership programs that increase revenue, add member/constituent value and foster sustainability. He is
convener of the Partnership Professionals Network a national sponsorship and partnership organization.

Sponsorship was already under pressure and undergoing changes prior to COVID but the pandemic accelerated those changes. With sponsorships being part of the livelihood of many organizations, we're talking about what these changes are, how they have ramped up, how they are affecting associations, and what the future of sponsorship looks like.

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Melynn Sight and her company nSight Marketing help associations win the battle for member attention, readership and engagement. It all begins with a compelling value proposition that conveys why the association matters.

She is the author of the book Breakthrough Value which helps associations understand what a value proposition is and the 7 critical steps to discovering and backing up their own unique value message.

What is the job of the value proposition?

How do you discover what your members think is important, what they need?

Once you have a compelling value proposition, what next?

Discover all this and more in this value-packed episode.

Learn more about Melynn and her book at https://breakthroughvalue.org

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Mark Engle, DM FASAE CAE is a principle with Association Management Center in their governance consulting practice. Participating in more than 400 board meetings and serving on five Boards of Directors translates to Mark’s in-depth knowledge of board membership and governance.

He has worked closely with William Brown at Texas A&M University to publish research findings on the Board Selection Process for the ASAE Foundation and is co-author of Recruit the Right Board.

With the board recruitment process becoming more complex it's important that associations not leave board composition to chance. There is a greater appreciation for leadership development than simply a nominating function. We need to identify and give opportunities to emerging leaders, focusing on a market mindset and strategy as key competencies in the boardroom instead of longevity.

Competition in the association space is more fierce than it has ever been and if we don't have that market mindset, the strategy cognition in the boardroom, we run the risk of being an also-ran and that could potentially put us out of business.

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Hilary Marsh is president and chief strategist of Content Company, a content and digital strategy consultancy that helps associations get better results from their content by improving their practices.

Content is more than just your magazine or newsletter or blog. From Hilary's perspective, content is everything an association does including event sessions you deliver, journals, clinical practice guidelines, advocacy position papers -- everything that comes back to words and pictures, audio and video that you share with the world.

Content strategy is the practice of planning for the creation, delivery and governance of content that is useful, usable and effective. Many associations are missing the boat by not starting with what their audience needs and wants from them.

What are the channels through which we can deliver content and how do we make sure we're doing it best?

What is the CEO's role in understanding and demanding content strategy for an association?

What are the obstacles associations face in developing and deploying a solid content strategy?

We answer these questions and more in this fascinating episode.

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