Nicholas Oliver, MPA, CAE
NE/SAE Secretary/Treasurer
NE/SAE is excited to host the upcoming 2023 Annual Meeting at Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, Connecticut on Thursday, June 15 and Friday, June 16, 2023. End your workweek inside one of New England’s premier resorts. Take the opportunity to network with colleagues and learn from association industry experts. Plus, we encourage you to connect with product and service vendors that have affordable resources to make your job easier. Check out the exhibits that include awesome hotels and meeting facilities throughout the region for your upcoming conferences and events.
At this year’s Annual Meeting, our keynote presenter will be Amanda Kaiser. Amanda always receives high reviews when she presents at a ne/sae conference. Her presentation, “Uncommon Strategies for Creating a Thriving Member Experience,” will turn you into your members’ next “Chief Experience Officer.” Learn more about shifting your organization’s engagement strategies that elevates your value and tailors your association’s benefits to their needs. This presentation will kickoff two days of professional education with tools and resources to take back to your staff and your Board of Directors.
Don’t forget the fun that awaits us each evening! For those of you coming the evening before the conference, join us for a scavenger hunt like no other, sponsored by InSource Services. The next night will be just as fun as we head to the Comix Roadhouse. Will you participate in the mechanical bull riding contest or sing us a tune during karaoke, preferably on key.
See you at the 2023 Annual Meeting!
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The 2023 NE/SAE Annual Meeting will be held June 15-16 at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, Connecticut.
NE/SAE’s Annual Meeting is the premier conference for New England association professionals and the hotels, CVBs, technology and other vendors that support them. Education sessions focus on association success stories, leadership development, marketing and communications, and networking with peers.
NE/SAE conferences are designed to engage all professional staff, not just the CEO/Executive Director. Be sure to bring your marketing, meetings, and finance staff. Sessions will provide interactive learning with colleagues who are facing the same challenges and obstacles. You'll walk away with strategies and ideas that you can implement right away.
This year's conference will be bigger and better than ever with more programming, new networking opportunities, and more! Registration is open, so get signed up today!
Thank you to our 2023 Annual Meeting Sponsors!
2023 Exhibitors
  
Event Partner
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NE/SAE is grateful to our Annual Partners who generously support the programs and services we provide throughout the year.
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Sherri Oken, CAE, principal of The Association Advantage, announced her retirement on December 31, 2022, after 30 years guiding and supporting volunteer leaders to achieve their strategic goals. Sherri has been a member of NE/SAE for most of her career.
Over the decades, The Association Advantage provided a wide variety of non-profit professional societies and trade associations with the tools and knowledge to operate in a professional and business-like manner.
Sherri will continue to be actively involved in her community and in NE/SAE. She is now able to share her expertise on projects such as strategic planning facilitation, non-profit governance reviews, and leadership assessments and training.
Congratulations, Sherri!
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The New England Society of Association Executives is looking for YOUR news for our monthly e-newsletter, NE/SAE eNews. Please consider sharing any of the following:
- You or your organization in the news, including any awards or recognition you have received
- Your professional development news - promotions, job changes, retirements, etc.
- Articles you have written that would be of interest to NE/SAE members
- Other non-promotional items you think would be of interest to the membership
News submissions are accepted on a rolling basis and will be published in the next monthly e-newsletter. To submit your news, email office@nesae.org.
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 NE/SAE member Dawn Tedesco, owner of Career Compliance Solutions, presented a webinar on May 10 titled, "Creating Inclusive Hiring, Onboarding, and Lifecycle Processes for your Association."
Dawn has extensive experience in employee and management skills development and over 20 years of hospitality operations and HR management and training experience. She has designed and developed training programs for several large organizations and now specializes in instructional design, eLearning development, and helping businesses with management skills and compliance training.
The May 10 presentation is now available as an on-demand webinar. The session helps association managers and executives understand how to identify processes, systems, and structures within the organization that perpetuate negative bias, how to interact with structures that exemplify inclusion, and mitigate misunderstandings or a lack of engagement around equity, diversity, and inclusion. Attendees gain strategies to effectively position themselves to have a positive impact on the managers and employees of the organization, helping to bring their full potential, identities, perspectives, and skills to their work and customer relationships.
NE/SAE members have a lot of knowledge to share with our colleagues and members of our associations. It's time for you to become a thought leader in association management!
NE/SAE-sponsored webinars are available for anyone interested in learning about any aspect of association management. Topics include board development, membership marketing, meeting planning, managing human resources, and many more. Attendees for webinars are from all parts of the US, which makes them a great opportunity to meet other association executives from around the country.
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Gary Diedrichs, Smart Meetings
If there’s a new mantra for meeting, it’s “make it count.” Make the how count—the rigors (and potential health risks) of travel. Make the why count—a genuine business need. Make the where count—a memorable and meaningful setting and experience.
Few options for meeting professionals tick these boxes like Native American casino resorts. Tribal gambling has come a long way since Florida’s Seminole Tribe opened a no-frills bingo hall in the early 1980s to help compensate for painful Reagan-era federal budget cuts to Native American reservations. It wasn’t until 1987 that the Supreme Court officially legalized gambling by tribes on their own lands.
Today, tribal casinos, many with award-winning resorts boasting excellent meeting facilities, have become a $39 billion industry for 243 tribes in 29 states.
Here’s why they can be winners for your next meeting.
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ASAE President and CEO Michelle Mason, FASAE, CAE, gave testimony at a May 4 Federal Trade Commission (FTC) hearing on the agency’s proposed rule prohibiting government and business impersonation.
The FTC proposed the rule last fall to make government and business impersonation scams a violation of the FTC Act and would allow the agency to charge fines or seek civil penalties against scammers who harm consumers in violation of the rule.
ASAE is part of a coalition of 235 trade associations and event companies that has urged the FTC to crack down on impersonation fraud. For associations and conference organizers, the scams have included using copyrighted event names and logos to sell attendee lists or lure consumers to fraudulent websites offering hotel bookings.
“An association’s brand and other intellectual property are among our most valuable assets and ASAE appreciates the FTC for recognizing the severity of the issue by issuing this proposed rule," said Mason.
Among the other organizations that testified at the FTC hearing were the Consumer Technology Association, Exhibitions & Conferences Alliance, International Association of Exhibitions and Events, Risk Management Society and American Bankers Association.
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We're pleased to share our upcoming webinar schedule. Our live webinars meet the requirements for fulfilling the professional development requirements to earn or maintain the Certified Association Executive credential. Webinars are $45 for members and $75 for non-members.
Coming Up
Ethical Decision-Making and the Association Professional
Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - 1:30 PM ET
The ASAE core ethical standards are built on 6 pillars: upholding the law, honesty, confidentiality, justice, ethical culture, and personal responsibility. However, applying an ethical decision-making framework within the association space can be challenging. This presentation will provide a foundation of pertinent ethical principles, discuss a decision-making framework for ethical dilemmas, and engage the learner in assessing case studies related to the professional’s responsibility in context with association ethics. (ASAE Code of Conduct: https://www.asaecenter.org/about-us/policies/code-of-conduct)
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Membership Does Not Lead to Engagement
Tuesday, June 20, 2023 - 1:30 PM ET
The concept of membership is all but irrelevant. This webinar challenges the traditional notion that membership drives engagement and instead proposes that engagement is the key driver of membership. Attendees will learn about strategies for fostering engagement among current and potential members, as well as tactics for creating a sense of community and encouraging participation. The goal is to provide practical insights for organizations looking to rethink their membership strategies and create more meaningful connections with their members in a rapidly changing landscape. Ultimately, the webinar aims to inspire attendees to adopt a new perspective on membership and embrace a more engagement-focused approach.
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The Vice President / Director of Marketing and Communications is a high impact leadership position requiring a strong background in communications and public relations. This newly created position will be in charge of planning, managing and executing on the overall marketing, PR and communications strategy for the IPA and driving our organizational profile towards measurable impact. They will develop and implement an internal and external facing strategic communications plan for the organization’s programs and brand and lead the organization’s overall strategic planning with our primary audiences. These include media outlets, federal and state policy makers, IPA members, partner organizations, and interested stakeholders in the financial services and capital markets industry.
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