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Membership Organization Leadership Series (MOLS)

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Leadership

Series

September 15th, October 13th & November 17th

Tuesdays from 3-5 pm - followed by an informal happy hour

The Austin Membership Organization Leadership Series has been created with the hope of fostering a more collaborative environment in which the member organizations of the Greater Austin community can work together to help each organization thrive, reduce expenses and possibly share resources.

Our primary aims are to share best practies around:

Membership growth
Membership retention
Adding value to membership offerings
Defining Organization value and differentiation
Member engagement and involvement
Leveraging social media as a member organization

This series will be hosted at Austin's Newest Conference Center - the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, our Platinum Sponsor for this event. The center is located at 1900 University Ave. University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78705

Following each session there will be an informal happy hour for continued relationship development and cross pollination of ideas hosted by our sponsors.

{This series is ONLY open to board members and committee chairs of membership orgs}

Attend the 1 remaining session for only $49! >> Register Today! <<

A portion of the proceeds from this event will benefit:
Leadership Austin & Greenlights for NonProfit Success

September 15 - The Austin Equation: How Experiences and Communities Combine to "Make a Scene"

Heather McKissick & Bijoy Goswami

Heather McKissick, President/CEO, Leadership Austin

Heather McKissick is an organizational development and communication specialist with specific expertise in leadership, change and experience design.

Heather is currently President and CEO for Leadership Austin, a non-profit leadership development organization that ignites passion for community leadership, whatever someone’s interests or experience level. Since 1979, their leadership development programs have helped thousands of individuals delve deeply into the critical issues and leadership skills required to keep our community thriving. As the former Director of Organizational Development and Education for the Seton Healthcare Network she was responsible for the Organizational Development system which includes employee and leadership development initiatives for more than 10,000 employees across Central Texas.

Having been trained extensively in “Experience Design,” Heather integrates her 18+ years of experience in curriculum development, group facilitation, and program design with this science of creating lasting, memorable experiences for program participants, customers and others. As an experience designer, she creates environments where people can learn, serve, work and “experience” whatever they are doing to their fullest capacity. She enjoys sharing the science of Experience Design with others, helping them to become experience creators themselves. Heather is also co-leader of the Bootstrap Experience Subgroup, which helps entrepreneurs apply experience design principles in a simple, easy-to-follow, yet high-impact fashion.

Bijoy Goswami, Founder, Bootstrap Austin

Bijoy Goswami is deeply interested in how we create extraordinary, meaningful and joyful lives. He sees our unique human capability of building mental models as a vital part of this endeavor. He loves building and sharing simple, yet powerful models, including MRE, youPlusU and Bootstrap.

His life has been an inadvertent study of contrasting spiritual, cultural and intellectual models. He was born in Bangalore, India on April 15, 1973, to a Catholic mother and a Hindu father. He moved to Taiwan at the age of ten and Hong Kong at fourteen. He came to the US in 1991, attending Stanford, where he studied Computer Science, Economics, History and completed an Honors program in Science, Technology and Society. He spent a term at Oxford. In 1995 he moved to Austin, TX, to join a software startup and cofounded Aviri software in April 2000. In 2003, he began in earnest, his work as a model-builder, bootstrapper and evangelist.

Bijoy expresses and communicates his models through books, music, film, community, and websites. The process also deepens his understanding of the models and how to effectively convey them. Collaboration is at the heart of this process and he has been very lucky in finding extraordinary partners. Their expertise combines with the model, and through multiple iterations, a unique creation results. Some of these include Bootstrap Austin, The Human Fabric and Mystic Cab.

Learn more at www.bijoygoswami.com

October 13 - The Shared Resources Movement

Kevin Patterson, General Director, Austin Lyric Opera

Kevin Patterson was appointed General Director of Austin Lyric Opera effective July 1, 2007. His extensive operatic experience includes his positions as Director of Artistic Administration and Director of Production for the Pittsburgh Opera. In this capacity Patterson oversaw casting, artistic and production planning for the main stage company, as well as for the Pittsburgh Opera Center, its distinguished young artist training program.

As a producer of opera he has been associated with opera companies on the regional and national levels including The Lyric Opera of Chicago, Santa Fe Opera, Palm Beach Opera, New Orleans Opera and Opera Grand Rapids. He is also an artistic advisor to the Asheville Lyric Opera.

For the opera industry's national service organization, Opera America, Patterson has lectured on the impact of information technology on the opera industry and has authored numerous related articles for Opera America's publication NewsLine. Patterson also served as vice-chairman of Opera America's Production/Technical Committee, 2005-2007.

A graduate of the Indiana University School of Music with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, he also holds a Masters of Business Administration degree from Indiana Wesleyan University. As an educator, Patterson has taught acting, stage direction and technical theatre for the Culver Academies Summer Programs. He and his wife, Dana, a music educator, have a daughter, Janelle.

November 17 - Social Media for Membership Organizations

Tim Hayden

Tim Hayden, CEO, GamePlan

As CEO of GamePlan Marketing, Tim Hayden combines his experience in interactive marketing, entertainment and media consulting to help brands build meaningful dialogue with their audiences through offline experiences, mobile and social media. Since co-founding the agency in 2003, Tim has formulated an “experiential” approach to marketing that compounds the power of life’s experiences with new media technologies to build successful engagement within the B2B and Consumer marketplaces.

Based in Austin, Texas, with satellite operations in New York City, GamePlan produce campaigns for Dell, IBM, Oracle, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Nintendo and Bacardi USA. The agency has also worked alongside high profile artists, executives and properties such as Steve Ballmer, Hector Ruiz, Jeep King of The Mountain professional bike racing series, AVP Professional Volleyball Tour, Austin City Limits Music Festival, Justin Timberlake’s FutureSexLoveSound international tour and the Sundance Film Festival. In 2004, Tim conceived and produced “Operation Blueshock”, a successful guerilla marketing stunt for client Bluetooth Special Interest Group during the 2004 International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. To date, the campaign is heralded as “The Greatest Tradeshow Marketing Stunt Ever” by the editors of MarketingSherpa. In the years since, GamePlan has produced Dell’s first social media widget, AMD’s most successful online video (500K+ views), and has achieved other innovative accomplishments.

Prior to GamePlan, Tim was a founding team member and Vice President of Sales for NION Interactive Solutions, responsible for engagements with clients such as Rice University, ExxonMobil, Dell Computer and Circuit Semantics, twice landing the firm on the Austin Business Journal’s list of “Top 25 Web Developers” (as defined by annual revenue). He has also held positions in Recruiting (HQ ProSearch and Accounting Solutions), IT Consulting (Professional Access) and as a Securities Broker (Grand Energy). Tim holds a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Texas State University.

Special Thanks to our Sponsors & Host Committee