CANDIDATE PROFILE

Ideal Experience

Proven senior executive leadership experience
Has held direct accountability for driving the success, growth, and financial sustainability of an organization of comparable scale, scope, and complexity; leadership experience in a membership organization context is preferred

Experience with and commitment to the association community
Resulting in a deep understanding of ASAE’s mission and credibility with its membership

Revenue growth experience
Experience driving substantial revenue growth from both current and new revenue streams

Experience serving as a respected “face and voice” for an industry or organization
Effectively and credibly communicates to a range of external stakeholders, including relevant policymakers and regulators, the board, members, peer associations, and the media

Proven commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Track record of measurable results and business impact from successfully incorporating DEI priorities as part of a broader organizational strategy

Experience working with and/or for a volunteer board

Certified Association Executive (CAE) Credential
Preferred, but not required

Critical Leadership Capabilities

Strategic Thinking

• Successfully implements ASAE’s newly approved strategic plan, adding value if/where appropriate, and by translating the plan into a clear direction for the team and driving forward its execution.
• Drives innovation and entrepreneurial thinking throughout the organization; anticipates future challenges and opportunities, illuminates and builds awareness of emerging priorities and adjusts the organization’s direction accordingly.
• Challenges assumptions and conventional wisdom with specific, supported, reasoned proposals.
• Maintains a steady forward focus, navigating ASAE through the current pandemic dynamic while keeping their eye on long term strategic goals.

Collaborating and Influencing

• Quickly engages and develops trusted relationships with a complex and diverse membership and effectively navigates often competing interests to drive consensus on the organization’s priorities.
• Leads, inspires and galvanizes a wide range of internal and external stakeholders to build productive partnerships with allied organizations.
• Serves as a credible and compelling spokesperson before the media, policymakers, regulators, current and prospective members, advocacy organizations and other key constituencies on behalf of the organization.
• Articulates ASAE’s value in a thorough yet concise way that compels new and existing members to stay – or become – invested and engaged.

Inclusive Leadership

• Effectively communicates the organization’s long-term direction to all relevant stakeholders and collaborates with the team on how to reach it.
• Delegates strategic objectives to the whole team with clear and explicit intent and calls upon team members to contribute to the best of their ability; focuses on the team’s growth and development as a group and as individuals.
• Builds a culture of respect and responsibility, and an inclusive workplace and membership environment, that is aligned with a broader organizational equity agenda.
• Defines measurable goals and regularly collects data to track where the organization stands on its equity, diversity and inclusion efforts.
• Identifies and addresses policies, procedures and unspoken rules that could disadvantage underrepresented employees, as well as current and potential members, because of their ethnicity, disability, gender, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic status.
• Engages, inspires, and motivates the team to meet and exceed their commitments and reach their full potential.

APPLICATIONS AND NOMINATIONS

If you wish to submit application materials or nominate someone to serve as the next CEO of ASAE, please email ASAECEO@SpencerStuart.com.