President-Elect Message

As I sit and reflect on 2022 for AHVAP, I am reminded of the courage, resilience, and most importantly the fortitude that our AHVAP Members have demonstrated this year. During our AHVAP National Conference and our follow up virtual Member Meeting, I spoke about courage. Our personal courage, industry courage and our organizational courage. Personal courage does not mean that we do not have a recognition of fear, but we are willing and eager to process towards our common goal. For AHVAP, our common goal is to support our AHVAP members and the Value Analysis profession. Personal leadership courage in our profession is sometimes an arduous task, and as AHVAP Members, we find ourselves in times that call for our bold courageous professional leadership. It is Value Analysis time, and we should gladly assume the seat at the healthcare table as AHVAP Members and Value Analysis professionals.

As stated, our personal courage speaks to our commitment to our AHVAP organization and to the Value Analysis profession. It takes multiple actions and ideas to demonstrate personal courage in today’s world and our intention to advance the Value Analysis profession. It has been said that courageous people are focused on a common vision and goal. A common goal which puts AHVAP, our AHVAP Members and Value Analysis at the center of our decisions and our “true north.” We must use our courage to make our organization, the industry “go to” for Value Analysis, that organization that all immediately think of for Value Analysis and the organization that supports, advances, and highlights the need for our Value Analysis professionals included in all decisions.

Courage can be described as doing those things that are closest to your heart and are important or special to you. Catherine M. Perme once said in her article “Organizational Courage – How to build it,” “organizational courage is attainable, but it is an inside-out job”.

As we continue to advance AHVAP and Value Analysis in a courageous way, I invite you to join us in the “inside-out job” using courage as our individual and organizational “superpower.”

I invite you to join us on the courageous AHVAP journey!

Sincerely,
Karen Niven, MS, BSN, RN, CVAHP
President-Elect, Board of Directors