Leadership Series

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Leadership Series

MSAE’s Leadership Series arms senior level directors or new executives to broaden and strengthen their expertise as it relates to leadership, assessment, board relations, financial management, strategic communications and innovation.

In developing the Leadership Series, MSAE applies the principles of adult learning with a heavy dose of simulated-learning activities to increase retention and practical application to the association environment.

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Learning Outcomes:

• Foster and enhance leadership skills for current or promising association executives.
• Transform leadership ideals into practice for long term retention and applicability.
• Evaluate and assess best practices and current trends in leadership.
• Generate an executive talent pool for succession planning in your association.
• Establish a cohort of peers to exchange ideas and identify solutions in a leadership cloud community.

Curriculum:

To ensure a quality learning and leadership experience, participants will be responsible for purchasing the books required for this series. In a confirmation email, MSAE will provide the latest literature for the learning components one week prior to the course being taught. It is expected that participants will carve out time to thoroughly read the materials and be prepared for robust discussions to maximize the conversation.

Format:

As a part of each Leadership Series session, the faculty will provide 30 minutes of lecture and then 30 minutes of a simulated activity to reinforce the learning component. There are three learning components in each session.

All sessions will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at the MSAE Office at 1350 Haslett Road, East Lansing, Mich.

MSAE is an approved CAE provider. The Leadership Series counts toward 21 hours of certification or recertification for the CAE credential.

Leadership Orientation

How leaders develop and implement a vision? What is the difference between leaders and managers? How do you build and use executive networking for personal and organizational success?
Presenter: Gretchen Couraud, chief executive officer, National Association of College & University Food Services
Date: Monday, Feb. 27, 2017

Organizational Development

As the leader, you need to know yourself and how you contribute in building and sustaining a high performing team.
Presenter: Allison McClintick, president and CEO, FlightLead
Date: Monday, April 24, 2017

Board Relations

In this session, the participants will learn Board-CEO relations, Board-Staff relations and Board-Member relations.
Presenter: Larry Merrill, CAE, executive director, Michigan Township Association
Date: Monday, July 24, 2017

Financial Management

In this engaging session, the participants will learn the budgeting process, forecasting and monitoring.
Presenter: Kathie Feldpausch, CAE, chief financial officer, Michigan REALTORS®
Date: Monday, Aug. 28, 2017

Strategic Communications

This session focuses on presentation skills, crisis communications and internal communications.
Presenter: Barbara Lezotte, APR, president, Lezotte Miller Public Relations
Date: Monday, Oct. 16, 2017

Innovation

How do leaders generate ideas? How do you build an innovation culture at your organization? How do you move an idea from concept to execution?
Presenter: Michael Moss, CAE, president, Society of College & University Planning
Date: Monday, Dec. 4, 2017

Gretchen Couraud, CAE, CFRE, chief executive officer, National Association of College & University Food Services

Gretchen Couraud has thirty years experience in non-profit organizational management, advocacy and fundraising. She began her career lobbying and fundraising for the US and Lansing Chambers of Commerce. From there, she turned to fundraising where she managed annual, major gift and endowment campaigns for the Lansing Community College Foundation and the Capital Area Humane Society. She was Executive Director of the Michigan Library Association before becoing Chief Executive Officer National Association of College & University Food Services in 2012.

Allison McClintick, president and CEO, FlightLead

Allison McClintick, M.A. is a Leader Development Specialist and owner of FlightLead. She earned a Master’s in Leadership Studies from the the progressive School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego and has been extensively trained and assessment certified through the Center for Creative Leadership and earned a certificate in Decision Quality from Stanford University. She has worked for and with the United States Marine Corps, the FBI, Michigan State University, the University of Notre Dame and clients all over the country ranging from biotechnology to child development and in everything in between. Allison credits receiving the wounded from Afghanistan as a Readiness and Deployment Support trainer with the US Marine Corps as one of her greatest honors and is a veteran advocate. She is beginning a PhD program in Leadership and Change in the fall of 2015, hosts a radio show called The Influence Project on blogtalkradio.com, writes a blog for LinkedIn and is a guest writer for many publications such as; The Association Impact and FOCUS (Small Business Association) publications. Allison lives in Michigan with her husband, a former Marine and her two children, aged 18 and 3.

Larry Merrill, CAE, executive director, Michigan Township Association

During his Michigan Township Association career, Larry has earned a reputation as an expert on organization governance and administration, public finance, public safety services and land use regulations. He has served as president of the National Center for Small Communities, and is the 2012-13 president of the National Association of Towns and Townships. He also served a three-year term on the Finance and Administration Council of the American Society of Association Executives, and served on the Governor’s Land Use Leadership Council and many state policy task forces. Larry was presented with the Award of Professional Excellence by the Michigan Department of State Police.

Larry has written several of MTA’s publications, including On-Call Fire Departments and Building a Better Budget. He also wrote Political Implications of Intergovernmental Cooperation for the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments and cowrote Survival Guide for Local Elected Leaders, published by the National Association of Towns and Townships.

Kathie Feldpausch, CAE, chief financial officer, Michigan REALTORS®

Kathie Feldpausch serves as Senior Vice President of Operations and currently directs all aspects of finance, accounting and systems, human resources and building operations for the Michigan Association of REALTORS®. She also serves as CEO of Midwest Appraisal Management Group. Feldpausch earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting and Political Economics from Hillsdale College and her public accounting certification in 1987. Her designations include ™ CPA, CAE, CIPS and RCE.

Barbara Lezotte, APR, president, Lezotte Miller Public Relations, Inc.

Trained as a journalist, Barbara Lezotte wrote for newspapers and radio before finding her niche in public relations. She began counseling PR clients in 1983 at a small Lansing firm and later founded Lezotte Miller Public Relations Inc., which celebrates 22 years in business in 2017. The firm’s clients include state and national associations, corporations and non-profit organizations. She specializes in strategic communication planning, issue management and crisis communication.

Lezotte has earned numerous PRSA awards for work in crisis communication and issue management for the firm’s clients. She earned national accreditation (APR) through the Public Relations Society of America in 1988 and was named “PACEMaker of the Year” by the Central Michigan Chapter of PRSA in 2004. She earned both master’s and bachelor’s degrees in journalism at Michigan State University and is a frequent guest lecturer at the college.

Lezotte currently serves on the boards of the Michigan Dyslexia Institute, the Small Business Association of Michigan and Michigan Youth in Government. She’s a former chair of the Lansing Regional Chamber of Commerce and served for six years on its board of directors. A long time member of the PRSA Central Michigan Chapter, she was chapter chair in 1996. She is a long time member of the Lansing Rotary Club and has served on its board of directors as well as its foundation board.

Michael Moss, CAE, president, Society of College & University Planning

As president of the Society for College and University Planning, Mike moss, CAE is a dedicated non-profit executive with 25+ years experience in strategic planning, operations, certification and training, staff management, online technologies and non-profit governance. His specialties include strategic planning, board governance, operations management, program management, team leadership.

Moss attended Indiana University Bloomington where he received his Bachelor of Sciences degree in Environmental Science and Public Affairs. In 2013, he received the 2013 Chairman's Citation from the International Facility Management Association where he was formerly the Chief Operating Officer.

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$750 Member|$850 Non-member

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If received in writing at least 10 business days before the program beings, you will be refunded your registration fee after a $50 administrative charge. Cancellations not received in writing by the date required will not be eligible for a refund. No-shows will not be refunded.

Substitutions may be made at any time. The difference between the member and nonmember price will apply if a non-member replaces a member. All refund requests must be submitted in writing to the MSAE office, 1350 Haslett Rd. East Lansing, MI, 48823; by fax: 517.332.6724; or email at info@msae.org.