02/27/2025

Enable Intentional Impact

Find out how to enable it

Is the real question, what will drive intentional, mission-focused impact? As opposed to, say, what makes exceptional associations? It certainly seems so, according to a series of facilitated association community dialogues convened by the ASAE Research Foundation.

Once upon a time—as in, last summer—the research foundation and a diverse group of association community members embarked on an iterative process of surfacing mindsets, qualities, capacities, and practices that will make associations effective and even exceptional. The work, launched as World Café-style dialogues, was hosted in Chicago and Washington, D.C., last June and September, respectively. Two subsequent virtual town halls, on Dec. 11 and 18, brought the total participation so far to about 200 people.

Each discussion lent important perspectives toward the foundation's organizational-effectiveness research objectives, in this case under the banner of the 7 Measures of Success initiative, led by a task force of the same name and foundation staff.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership.