Strategic Planning (Webinar)
All associations need a plan; yet developing a plan is sometimes more difficult than needed due to overcomplicated methodology and poor follow-up. Associations Forum has facilitated hundreds of planning sessions and will share what works and what doesn’t.
- Why associations and charities must plan
- Common problems & pitfalls with strategic plans
- Framework of the plan
- A typical association planning day
- Engaging the board in strategy
Registrations: Free & Exclusive to NFP organisations
ABOUT THE PRESENTER
Lewis Kaplan, Associations Advisor, Associations Forum
Lewis has over 30 years’ leadership and management experience, including over 20 years in CEO roles in peak consumer and health organisations including Diabetes Australia, Australian Red Cross NSW, Alzheimer’s Australia NSW and Huntington’s NSW ACT. He has governance, management, policy and lobbying expertise across a range of sectors including primary health care, ageing, aged and community care, public health, health promotion, community development, international development and mother and child health.
Lewis has a proven track record in initiating new organisations and concepts and bringing together diverse stakeholders to achieve outcomes which individually are unattainable.
He has been a key member of the leadership team for a number of successful association mergers. He has extensive experience (some successful, some not) of advocating to federal and state governments.
He holds academic qualifications in Social Anthropology (BA Hons1) and International Public Health (Master of Health Sciences), as well as being a former Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (FAICD) and a Fulbright Scholar.
