Remove diversity

Aaron Wolowiec

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Racial Equity Statements: Eloquent Words, but Do You Mean It?

Aaron Wolowiec

2020 brought a significant increase in organizations providing statements and reflections on diversity, equity, and inclusion. While they were appreciated, it also prompts a series of actions.

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Lessons in leadership from 2014

Aaron Wolowiec

Diversity remains a challenge. Diversity starts with you. Without question, associations have made great progress in recent years in making their staffs and boards more diverse. The big organizations don’t have this figured out any better than anybody else. Part of me wants to say: Not as much as one would hope.

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DEIA Data Collection: Overcoming the Hurdles to Advance Our Missions

Aaron Wolowiec

One of the questions organizations struggle with regarding diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) is, “How do we measure our efforts to ensure we are making the impact we are striving for?” Data-driven decisions are a good way to eliminate bias in any situation.

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Connected in every way imaginable

Aaron Wolowiec

This month’s guest blog post is by Jessica Pettitt , a diversity expert, educator, speaker and consultant with Good Enough Now. Edu-Tours and place-based education connect the purpose of an organization with the local community, and more importantly, with members. Jessica Pettitt. Last summer I attended my first ASAE Annual Meeting.

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Strategic meeting audits: Leveraging data to improve ROI

Aaron Wolowiec

Has your organization’s meetings function experienced a year-over-year revenue decline – however slight – since the 2007 recession? If you’ve answered yes to one or both of these questions, 2014 may be a great opportunity for your organization to conduct a strategic meeting audit. What key indicators did your organization emphasize?

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Globalization isn’t a ‘one-size-fits-all’ strategy for associations

Aaron Wolowiec

At the same time, these organizations should consider hosting events outside their home countries. Organizations that have a solid international business strategy experience faster growth. Yet, it is hard to identify an association or organization that is not affected, in some significant manner, by globalization.

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Motown magic continues to attract business

Aaron Wolowiec

In addition, CVB will help ASAE pick an organization to which members will give back when visiting Detroit. Census , Detroit is the perfect location to celebrate diversity. In recent years, ASAE has engaged more than 1,000 attendees in community service projects in host cities.

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