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The current job market is competitive. Although there are opportunities to leave your current role for another position, that’s not the decision we all want to make. Perhaps we’d like to stay where we are but with increased responsibilities and opportunities or potentially an increased salary or benefits. Approaching these conversations, however, can be awkward.
Where do you start? What do you say? Should you have a presentation as to why you deserve the promotion? These are all questions that we think of when approaching the promotion conversation. Our guest today, Chris Price, will be able to assist with these questions.

Chris Price is a partner at The Mattison Corporation, where his leadership and fun-loving attitude keep non-profit associations thriving. Describing each day as a new adventure, Chris takes pride in helping clients fulfill their missions. Under his leadership, non-profit clients have experienced substantial growth, as has The Mattison Corporation.

Before joining The Mattison Corporation, Chris worked in the construction and civil engineering fields. He currently serves as president of the Indiana Construction Roundtable and the Indiana Construction Roundtable Foundation. He is also currently involved with workforce development programs supporting the hospitality sector.

Outside of work and philanthropy, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, Stefanie, and their three sons. When he can get a break, you can find him on the golf course.
To get in contact with Chris, you can follow him on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-price-06b95a29/

Every association has one thing in common, and that is the love and gratitude that we share for volunteers. Volunteers assist associations by pushing forward their missions and visions for their members. In recent years, many volunteers have reevaluated their time and what meant most to them. Volunteer participation and engagement have dropped drastically since then and still continue. What is it that we, as association professionals, can do when it comes to recruiting and retaining volunteers? Is it the way we interact, how we are selling the experience, or is it something else? Our guests today will be able to help us explore this conversation.

Brian Lewis, CAE, CVA is with Raybourn Group International, where he serves as the Executive Director for a couple of small staff clients. He discovered his interest in Association Management about 20 years ago as a volunteer for a number of adult fraternal organizations. He feels that his volunteer involvement is important professionally as a way to see things from the volunteer’s perspective, and it provides opportunities to try out new things on a small scale.

Katie Feltman’, CAEs serves as COO for the American College of Sports Medicine, overseeing ACSM's operations, programs, and services which include membership, certification, publishing, technology, science initiatives, grant administration and key programmatic areas. Katie has a servant leader mindset finding joy in helping her colleagues succeed and seeing ACSM's members and certifieds thrive.

With states and cities rapidly adjusting their COVID restrictions, we are seeing an increase in the return of association events, large and small. This return requires our associations to take several new factors into consideration. In this episode, we speak with a seasoned event professional as they planned and navigated the return of Indy’s first tradeshow of 2021 at the Indianapolis Convention Center.
Speaker: Kyle Jordan, CAE, CMP, CMM (Add the CEM), Vice President of Membership & Meetings, National Confectioners Association

In the association world, we often speak about risk from the perspective of getting our boards to be bigger risk-takers. We spend countless hours pulling the appropriate information to help them make the best decisions they can at the time. However, we don’t typically think about our own risk-taking when it comes to our own careers. Today, our guest is Cory Martin, MPA, CAE, Owner, and CEO of the association management company, Mission Control, and he speaks on taking those risks in your career to advance forward. He began his career in associations with Tau Kappa Epsilon Fraternity Headquarters. He then became the Executive Director of the Indiana State Police Alliance.

STAR awards are the Indiana Society of Association Executives' way of recognizing members. This is ISAE's top award. The categories are broken into associations and individuals for their innovations, contributions, and impact on the association industry. In this week's episode, Erica Poff, PMP, CAE, IOM, Vice President of Nonprofit Effectiveness at Talbott Talent, discusses with us about how she received the award, why it meant so much to her, and how it has paved the way for others to come and more!