EC Retreat | Aug 2024
August 21st & 22nd, 2024
WORKING
- Conference
- Fun
- Knowledge Share
- Local Collaboration
- Networking
- Community
NOT WORKING
- Revenue
- Direction for the Industry
- Roles/Delegating & Executing
- Expansion/Growth and Building up others
- Joint/Shared Program and Non-Conference Programming
- Cost saving
DIRECTION (3-5 YRS)
EC to prioritize by 9/5 call, assign to EC members, become a 90-day initiative
- Revenue Growth
- Partner Programming
- HR
- New Members (large/aligned)
- Knowledge Share/Trust/Collaboration
- National Event
- Categories/Expansion
- E-tertainment (play & party, i.e. rec dec, chicken n pickle)
- Running Clubs
- Fitness & Group
- Events (Pubrew, Natian)
GOALS
- Marketing calls
- Seminar Workshop Zoom (Karen/Ashton)…bring to seminar?
- Conference seminar speakers: send a QR code to include in slide deck
PARKING LOT
- Gravity Follow-up
- Insurance 24-25 $7k difference
- Member Model
- Survey (data on Participants, Revenue, Employees)
- SFIA
- Conference Registrations for non-Members
- Conference Sponsorship Plan
- Gold Tier of Industry Sponsorship Tier
- Sponsorship Committee to follow up clubs on SMA membership
- SMA (Paula) report
- Zoom webinar pre-conference
- General session
- 90-minute workshop seminar
- Pricing tool
- Sponsorship communication policy/procedure
- Document with somsorship committee
- Data share and proactive outreach
- Formal review of SSIA staff: Chris Giebner & Galen Beers
SPONSORSHIP COMMITTEE
Every other month calls: 9/18
Goal: Follow up with clubs on activating SMA membership
Run through SMA report on SSIA Sponsorship data (and opportunities)
SSA
Continuing on with SSIA? Need to re-evaluate
VOLO national seller convo tabled (Wasserman conflict)
DEI COMMITTEE
Every 1st Tuesday at 2pm ET / 11am PT 3-2-1
Tech letter to send about gender/pronoun inclusion
MARKETING COMMITTEE
Every 3rd Thursday at 2:30pm ET / 11:30am PT
Share staff for marketing initiatives, club “collaboration”
EVENTS COMMITTEE (Conference)
Every month – next one is 9/11, first Wed of every month starting in October
Every two weeks starting in January Formalize the conference planning process
CONFERENCE
Gift cards for lunch options? Keynote or no?
2026: Dreams Natura in Cancun
2027: National Tourney (BVB, PB, KB) then Conference in Scottsdale Giebner to check on prices for moving to the following week
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: SARAH SPAIN
Sarah Spain – What is the topic? Unanimous consent from Events Committee to determine yay/nay
SMA SCHOLARSHIPS
Chicago October 2nd-5th, 2024
Group will present at the SSIA Conference
Motion – Nash Hartel: Budget for $4,000 for SMA Conference Scholarships, 10x $400 for attendees with a priority to new participants
2nd: Justin Jacobs Assent – 11
Dissent – 0
Abstain – 0
Result: PASSED
KEYNOTE SPEAKER BUDGET
Motion – Chris Hastings: Have a keynote speaker at the 2025 SSIA Conference, $10,000 plus travel and room
2nd: Kevin Cregan Assent – 10
Dissent – 1
Abstain – 0
Result: PASSED
EOS COMMITTEE
2023 = 7 clubs (8 people)
Sal to continue as cohort meeting host
Motion – Sal Farruggia: Budget $3,000 only activated for matching funding from participating SSIA clubs for EOS Workshops from October 2024 – February 2025 with a priority to new participants
2nd: Ian Elston Assent – 9
Dissent – 1
Abstain – 1
Result: PASSED
PART-TIME ROLE
Proactive role
$1,500/month = $18,000/year = $25/hr (15 hrs/week) Virtual assistant (Bill, Milwaukee) for a fraction of the cost Search committee needed
Motion – Chris Hastings: Budget of up to $15,000 for the remainder of the fiscal year for a part-time support staff for the SSIA with the role to be determined by the Executive Committee
2nd: Nash Hartel Assent – 10
Dissent – 1
Abstain – 0
Result: PASSED