Quick. Focused. High-impact.
Share a bold idea, leadership insight, or emerging perspective that sparks thinking and sets direction.
Quick. Focused. High-impact.
Share a bold idea, leadership insight, or emerging perspective that sparks thinking and sets direction.
Pick your power play—Strategy, Culture, Advocacy, or Revenue—and join a workshop designed to move your mission forward.
What’s Working for Associations Today brings Executive Directors together for an honest, no-filter conversation about what’s actually moving the needle right now. This peer-led panel goes beyond theory to share real strategies, lessons learned, and practical approaches leaders are using across their organizations. Expect candid insights, diverse perspectives, and takeaways grounded in real-world experience.
Not your average breakout.
Dive into lessons learned, practical frameworks, and tools leaders can use to move from disruption to direction.
The closing keynote brings the Forum full circle. Direction Is a Choice challenges association leaders to move beyond reacting to change and step intentionally into what comes next. This session connects the conversations, insights, and questions surfaced throughout the Forum and reframes leadership as an active decision, not a default response. Expect clarity, perspective, and a grounded call to lead forward with confidence.
Our breakout sessions are where ideas get tested and conversations get real. Expect practical discussions, peer-led insights, and applied strategy focused on the challenges association and not-for-profit leaders are facing right now. No lectures. No filler. Just thoughtful sessions designed to spark dialogue, share what’s actually working, and give you ideas you can take straight back to your organization.
Big Picture Talks set the stage for deeper exploration. These sessions offer a high-level look at the themes, questions, and ideas that will be unpacked during the Deep Dive sessions that follow. Think of them as a preview of what’s to come, helping you get oriented, spark curiosity, and decide where you want to spend your time next. No deep dives yet, just the context and insight you need to choose the conversations that matter most to you.
Need a sounding board? Coaching Corner brings expert-led conversations into the mix, giving you space to talk through real challenges, ask better questions, and leave with clearer direction. Practical, focused, and designed to meet you where you are.
You saw the trailers. Now pick the feature.
Deep Dive Session 1 is the full-length version of the Big Picture Talks you just heard. Same speakers. Same ideas. More time to dig in. Each session takes one Lightning Talk topic and opens it up for deeper conversation, real examples, and practical takeaways.
You can attend one of three sessions in this time slot, so choose the topic that grabbed your attention and go all in.