Participants: Nick Dawson, Dave DeBronkart,  Peter Elias, Nancy Finn, John Grohol, Sarah Krug, Danny Sands, Joe Ternullo, Jon Wald, Peggy Zuckerman

Minutes Approved

Strategic Initiatives 2016

We reviewed the spreadsheet that outlines the areas of focus and team assignments to date. Danny has asked everyone to personally look over the spreadsheet and come back to the Executive Committee with additional suggestions for team members.  The teams include:
Overall Project Managers:  Nancy Finn, Mark Reifsteck, Tracy Zervakis

Team Assignments to date:
• External Communications – John Hoben,  Jan Oldenburg
• Internal Communications – John Hoben
• Journal – John Hoben
• Learning Exchange –Sarah
• Receptions, Conference Visibility, Danny and Donna
• Website revision – John Grohol, Mayank Agaral
• Research Library
• Medical Education – Peter Elias, Sarah Krug
• Capital Campaign – Mark Reifsteck
• Individual Membership Campaign – Mark Reifsteck
• Corporate Memberships – Kyra Bobinet
We discussed our goals for each team’s achievements; how they can be successful, and the platform we will use to track the projects and share information.
Relationships and Alliances
Danny talked developing a process to give some uniformity to how we manage relationships and alliances with other organizations. Jon, Danny and Sarah will work on this.

PR for new Board Chair
Donna/Dave are working on a PR announcement and a blog post on the transition from Dave as Board Chairperson to Donna
SIGS – Special Interest Groups
The Executive Committee discussed the idea of SIGs.  A sub-group of the Committee will look into this.