NAIFA is changing…..are you ready?
We held our State Convention in Lake Chelan, Washington
May 24th to the 26th and we had a wonderful agenda of
education, entertainment and business to move NAIFA forward. Thank you to all those who attended because
without you it would not have been the great convention that it was.
We were so privileged to have our National President Paul
Dougherty and our Secretary/Treasurer Jill Judd in attendance. Both of them taking the time away from their
family and business to support our State and Local associations is an amazing
show of leadership and support for our industry.
NAIFA is changing because the leadership at our State level
knew it was time to get off the status quo train that we are on. A steering committee was formed and they
stepped up to the plate and did what they said they were going to do. They discussed, analyzed and came to the
conclusion we needed to create the One Washington Initiative.
With the leadership of our President Elect and now State
President Stephen Good and Communications Chair/RVP/Graphics Stud Michael
Staeb, a detailed presentation was given to our local attendees on why this
change is best for local associations and overall general membership in Washington. We had great dialogue, questions, and
concerns. At the end of the 1 hour presentation and discussion, it was very
clear, what had been created and proposed will benefit our members if we
continue to follow through and do what we say we are going to do. I know we will have success with this change!
Taking on a leadership role such as President is not
always easy but it is a smoother process when you have a team surrounding you
that is engaged and wants our association to stay viable so it may continue to help
grow and protect our businesses.
Many, many thanks to all of you that held positions on
the State Board and supported the change we needed to make!
It was an absolute pleasure to serve our member
association and it is an absolute pleasure to pass the torch to our new
President Stephen Good. I feel the flame
is strong but it will become even stronger with Stephen as President. We need to “Resist the urge to become uninvolved” and step up to help
President Good in serving our membership.
Our clients, communities and industry are counting on
us…….are you in?
Neal Kloke, Immediate Past President
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