The Strategic Predesign Association

Executive Committee

The Executive Committee is a standing committee authorized to act on behalf of the Board between meetings when timely action is required, subject to applicable law, the Association’s bylaws, Board policies, and any limitations established by the Board. Significant actions taken by the Executive Committee will be reported to the Board at its next meeting.

The Executive Committee consists of the Officers of the Association—the President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer—and any at-large members appointed by the Board. At-large members may participate fully in discussions but do not vote. The President serves as Chair of the Executive Committee.

The Executive Committee will:

• Coordinate implementation of the Association’s strategic plan and annual priorities and work plan.
• Provide leadership, monitor performance and coordination among standing committees.
• Recruit and nominate prospective Board members in accordance with the bylaws and Board-approved nomination procedures.
• Prepare and maintain an annual Board and officer succession plan.
• Review committee progress, priorities, resource needs, and cross-committee dependencies.
• Oversee the Association’s relationship with National and Regional Chapters and manage or recommend agreements with those Chapters, subject to appropriate Board approval.
• Use WildApricot M-HUB / Team Workspace pages and other Association collaboration tools to strengthen communication, coordination, volunteer engagement, and member participation across committees.

The Executive Committee is responsible for ensuring that committee activities collectively support the Association’s mission, strategic plan, financial capacity, and member experience.

Membership Committee

The Membership Committee recruits, welcomes, engages, supports, and retains a diverse international community of predesign stakeholders, including owners and end users, practitioners, educators, researchers, students, retirees, and others committed to advancing predesign knowledge and practice.

The Membership Committee owns the Association’s prospective-member and member-engagement pipeline.

The Committee will:

• Develop and implement member recruitment, onboarding, engagement, renewal, and retention programs.
• Manage the member journey from initial interest through enrollment, participation, renewal, and volunteer involvement.
• Maintain and improve membership categories, benefits, communications, and member-support practices.
• Use the WildApricot CRM and Membership pages, email and phone campaigns, events, and other approved tools to identify, cultivate, enroll, and retain members.
• Work with the Communications Committee to convert social-media and public-awareness activity into membership prospects.
• Work with the Events Committee to follow up with non-member event participants as prospective members.
• Encourage members to participate in committees, research, educational programs, events, publications, and other Association activities.
• Monitor membership participation, growth, retention, demographics, and engagement and report trends to the Executive Committee and Board.

LinkedIn and Facebook serve primarily as awareness and professional-community channels at the beginning of the member journey. Interested individuals should be directed to pred-int.org for authoritative information, membership enrollment, events, resources, and participation opportunities.

Continuing Education Committee

The Continuing Education Committee develops and delivers educational programs that advance professional knowledge, competency, and lifelong learning in strategic predesign and related disciplines.

The Committee will:

• Develop webinars, workshops, courses, seminars, learning series, certifications, and other continuing education programs.
• Identify member learning needs and emerging educational priorities.
• Establish learning objectives, program standards, instructional formats, and appropriate assessment or certification requirements.
• Recruit instructors, subject-matter experts, moderators, and program contributors.
• Coordinate with the Events Committee when educational programming is delivered through conferences, roundtables, symposia, or other events.
• Coordinate with the Research Committee to translate new research into educational programs.
• Coordinate with the Knowledge Committee to identify existing resources and preserve educational materials for future use.
• Use the WildApricot Knowledge Center, and Google Workspace Learning and Practice Resource Center as the primary member-access point for educational resources and continuing education content.

The Continuing Education Committee owns the learning-program experience; the Knowledge Committee owns the long-term organization and curation of the resulting knowledge resources.

Research Committee

The Research Committee promotes, initiates, coordinates, supports, and, where appropriate, procures research that advances the theory, methods, tools, technologies, and practice of strategic predesign.

Research areas may include predesign work processes, decision-support applications, emerging digital methods, artificial intelligence, data analysis, organizational decision-making, programming methodologies, and other subjects consistent with the Association’s mission.

The Committee will:

• Establish and periodically update an Association research agenda.
• Identify and evaluate proposed research initiatives.
• Develop collaborative research projects involving members, universities, professional organizations, owners, practitioners, and other institutions.
• Use WildApricot Team Workspace pages and related collaboration tools to propose, develop, document, and manage research projects.
• Coordinate with the Partner Development Committee to identify sponsors, grants, collaborators, and other resources required to support research.
• Coordinate with the Knowledge Committee to preserve research findings, datasets, reports, tools, and resources.
• Coordinate with the Continuing Education Committee to translate relevant research into learning opportunities.
• Encourage publication, presentation, peer exchange, and practical application of Association-supported research.
• Use the WildApricot M-HUB / Team Workspace to organize and coordinate research team proposal development, fundraising (sponsors & grants), procurement, awarding and managing, research projects, and distributing reports.

The Research Committee creates and develops new knowledge. The Knowledge Committee curates, publishes, organizes, and preserves that knowledge.

Events Committee

The Events Committee plans and delivers conferences, roundtables, symposia, networking programs, public forums, and related events that foster professional exchange, collaboration, innovation, and thought leadership within the strategic predesign community.

The Committee owns the event-development and event-delivery process.

The Committee will:

• Develop the Association’s annual and multi-year event calendar.
• Establish event objectives, themes, formats, schedules, budgets, speakers, moderators, and participant experiences.
• Coordinate event registration and logistics through the WildApricot Events system.
• Work with the Continuing Education Committee when programs include formal educational content or continuing education credit.
• Work with the Communications Committee to promote events through LinkedIn, Facebook, WildApricot CRM (email and texting), website and other communications channels.
• Coordinate with the Partner Development Committee on event sponsors and collaborating organizations.
• Organize, host, and evaluate Association events.
• Coordinate preparation of recordings, summaries, presentations, proceedings, and other post-event materials with the Knowledge Committee.
• Provide participant and prospect information to the Membership Committee and Partner Development Committee for appropriate post-event follow-up.

The Events Committee generates engagement opportunities. Membership owns conversion of participants into members, and Partner Development owns conversion of organizations into sponsors, collaborators, or partners.

Knowledge Committee

The Knowledge Committee develops, curates, organizes, publishes, preserves, and distributes the Association’s professional and institutional knowledge.

The Committee will manage publications, research reports, case studies, newsletters, digital content, guides, templates, tools, benchmarks, proceedings, educational resources, and other materials that expand knowledge and communicate effective practices in strategic predesign.

The Committee will:

• Establish standards and procedures for submitting, reviewing, classifying, curating, publishing, updating, and archiving Association knowledge resources.
• Oversee the structure, content, navigation, and user experience and manage access to the WildApricot Knowledge Center / Learning Center, Practice Resources, Research and Case Studies, and Administration resources.
• Coordinate with the Research Committee to capture and publish research findings.
• Coordinate with the Continuing Education Committee to preserve educational content and make learning resources readily discoverable.
• Coordinate with the Events Committee to preserve event presentations, recordings, proceedings, and related materials.
• Facilitate member contribution, searching, discovery, retrieval, and reuse of Association knowledge.
• Maintain the Association’s institutional knowledge and historical record.

The Committee will also oversee and manage the WildApricot About / Complexity of Decisions, and Strategic Predesign / Explore the Practice resources as collaboratively developed, Wiki-like professional resources.

These resources are intended to evolve toward an authoritative industry guideline for the strategic predesign process and may provide the foundation for future Association publications, including potential book publication.

Partner Development Committee

The Partner Development Committee develops and sustains the external financial and institutional relationships necessary to support the Association’s long-term mission and programs.

The Committee owns the Association’s partner (sponsor, collaborator), donor, and grant-development pipeline.

The Committee will:

• Identify, cultivate, enroll, steward, and retain institutional partners (sponsors and collaborators), and donors.
• Identify grant opportunities and coordinate preparation of grant applications with the committees responsible for the proposed work.
• Develop sponsorship and partnership opportunities consistent with the Association’s mission and policies.
• Maintain prospective-partner and existing-partner information using the WildApricot CRM and Membership website page and approved systems.
• Coordinate partner agreements with the Executive Committee and appropriate officers.
• Work with the Research Committee to identify funding and collaborators for research initiatives.
• Work with the Events Committee to develop event sponsorship and collaboration opportunities.
• Work with the Communications Committee to communicate partnership opportunities and recognize partners appropriately.
• Work with the Membership Committee when organizations or individuals may appropriately participate both as members and partners.
• Monitor partner engagement, commitments, renewals, and relationship development.

LinkedIn, Facebook, events, professional networks, and other outreach activities may generate prospective partners. The Partner Development Committee is responsible for managing those prospects from initial identification through relationship development, agreement, stewardship, and renewal.

Communications and Communications Committee

The Communications Committee builds awareness, understanding, credibility, and engagement for the Strategic Predesign Association and the practice of strategic predesign.

The Committee owns the Association’s communications, brand, social-media content, public outreach, and promotional strategy.

The Committee will:

• Develop and manage the Association’s communications and communications strategy.
• Maintain consistent Association branding, terminology, messaging, and visual identity.
• Develop and manage the editorial calendar for LinkedIn, Facebook, newsletters, public announcements, website promotions, and related communications.
• Oversee content posted to Association-managed social-media pages and approve appropriate member or community participation consistent with Association policies.
• Promote membership, events, educational programs, research, publications, partnerships, and Association accomplishments.
• Develop relationships with professional associations, universities, public agencies, research institutions, media, and allied organizations when those relationships support communications, awareness, outreach, or collaborative initiatives.
• Coordinate with the Membership Committee to generate prospective-member awareness and engagement, the Partner Development Committee to support partner outreach and recognitions, the Events Committee to promote events and encourage participant registration, the Knowledge Committee to publicize new publications, research, resources, and thought leadership.

LinkedIn and Facebook serve as the Association’s principal social-media outreach and professional-community interfaces. They introduce people and organizations to strategic predesign and direct them to pred-int.org, which serves as the Association’s authoritative digital destination for membership, events, programs, resources, and organizational information.

Technology Committee

The Technology Committee develops, manages, secures, integrates, and advances the Association’s Digital Ecosystem and technology infrastructure.

The Committee is responsible for the technology platforms and digital capabilities that enable membership, communications, collaboration, education, research, knowledge sharing, events, administration, and Association operations.

The Committee will:

• Develop and maintain the Association’s digital architecture and technology roadmap.
• Administer and support WildApricot, including CRM, financial function, and the website: membership, events, Team Workspaces, Knowledge Center.
• Administer and support Google Workspace for Nonprofits and other approved organizational systems.
• Provide technical administration and integration support for LinkedIn, Facebook, WildApricot (email/texting), and other digital platforms while the Communications Committee retains responsibility for communications content.
• Establish appropriate user roles, permissions, administrative access, and security practices.
• Coordinate data governance, privacy, cybersecurity, backup, recovery, and business-continuity practices.
• Evaluate and implement integrations and automation among Association systems.
• Develop and support AI-assisted tools, workflows, digital publications, knowledge-sharing capabilities, and other emerging technologies consistent with Association policies.
• Work with the Knowledge Committee to improve information architecture, search, retrieval, and digital-resource access, the Communications Committee to support reliable delivery of the Association’s public-facing digital communications.
• Provide technical guidance to committees when new digital tools, workflows, or capabilities are proposed.

The Technology Committee owns the technology infrastructure and system operation. Individual committees remain responsible for the programs, content, relationships, and business processes conducted through those systems.

The Technology may establish task groups to carry out specific system developments.

• ·       Digital Ecosystem Task Group: program requirements, develop implementation plan, task team and workload, then build the ecosystem
• ·       Dashboard / KPI Task Group: define KPI’s, measurement system, develop implementation plan task team and workload, then build the system. 

Committee Workflow

Communications creates awareness → Membership converts contacts into members → Events engages them → Continuing Education develops them → Research creates knowledge → Knowledge preserves and distributes it → Partner Development funds and connects the system → Technology enables the entire ecosystem → Executive Committee coordinates it and monitors performance through the Dashboard.