Events

Join Sarah’s Events and Programs for

Expert Insights and Inspiration!

For any questions, please drop us a line at [email protected].

Trends Talks

Join me and a special guest on the last Tuesday of each month for an engaging series of virtual events exploring NextGen trends. From emerging technologies to evolving societal values, these events promiste to offer a deep dive into the forces driving change in the next generation.

If a Trends Talk has already passed, don’t fret! You can view the recording at the same link to register for future events.

Guests

January 30 — Trends in Tech with Beth Ziesenis
February 27 — Workplace Culture with Kourtney Shelton
March 26 — Change and Innovation with Jeff Leitner
April 23 — Workforce Development with Jaimie Francis
May 28 — Brands and Marketing with Clint Runge
June 25 — Gen Z with Jenk Oz
July 30 — TBD
August 27 — TBD
September 24 — TBD
October 29 — Workforce Development with Katie Mehnert
November 19 — TBD
December 10 — TBD

Price = FREE

CAE Credit(s) = 0

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MemberShift Accelerator

The Accelerator is ideal for associations seeking a quick introduction to the strategies proven to increase member engagement. It’s designed for chapter leaders, board members, and chief executive officers / executive directors.

Learn turn-key strategies you can immediately apply to increase value, engage younger members, and grow membership. Click here to view the tentative agenda!

The training is presented live and recorded and distributed to registered attendees post-event.

Thursday, July 11 — 12pm-2:30pm ET

Register for the Accelerator by June 30th and save with our early bird rate!!
$225 for one enrollment
$75 for each additional registration

Standard enrollment:
$400 for one enrollment
$75 for each additional registration

CAE Credit(s) = 2.5

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MemberShift Mastermind: 90-Day Group Coaching

The Mastermind program is ideal for associations committed to making a significant organization-wide change. These organizations are seeking to develop an entirely new strategy or revise an existing membership strategy that isn’t yielding results.

MemberShift Mastermind is an opportunity to learn the strategies essential to creating a member-centric organization and a culture of belonging well-positioned for long-term growth, with the key takeaway being a customized membership growth strategy.

While anyone will benefit from this experience, Mastermind was developed for association executives, membership professionals, and executive directors. Attendees will learn from Sarah as well as other program participants. Regardless of your association’s location, size, history, type, or focus, you are guaranteed to learn the strategies proven to engage members and position your association for growth!

What to Expect:

Coaching Intensives via Zoom: Exclusive access to three 90-minute monthly live coaching calls with Sarah centered around the month’s lesson plus additional tips, best practices, accountability circles, and review to help you leverage and apply what you learn.
- Month 1 — Sarah introduces the concepts of member engagement and value, and the practices proven to both catapult and derail organizational growth and community-building objectives. Learn what it means to be truly member-centric and receive critical guidance and tools on how to start positioning your organization for greater success.
- Month 2 — Sarah explains demographic shifts, workforce trends, and economic shifts in greater detail, explaining how each has impacted community-building, marketability, value, and positioning. Learn about the new cycle of member engagement that has emerged in recent years, as well as best practices for managing large scale change, and how to competitively position your organization in an ever-changing market.
- Month 3 — Sarah shares strategies proven to yield membership growth and guides you through the process of creating your own strategy. Learn a simple, yet effective, way to chart a course for sustainable engagement and growth. In addition, Sarah shares examples and case studies of associations that successfully created a turn-around for their organizations and experienced tremendous growth as a result.
Community: Mastermind participants receive an invitation to a private online student community featuring the opportunity to post questions and engage in peer discussions between coaching intensives.
Tools and Best Practices: Exclusive access to strategy-building templates, plus a copy of Sarah’s new book, MemberShift: Why Members Leave and the Strategies Proven to Bring Them Back and the corresponding workbook The MemberShift Playbook: A Step-by-step Guide to Membership Strategy Building.

Coaching calls take place on the first Monday of each month during 12:00-1:30 EST (You will receive meeting invites from Sarah’s team prior to each call.)

Monday, May 6
Monday, June 3
Monday, July 1
You will receive meeting invites from Sarah’s team prior to each call.

Note: This is a virtual program available to associations globally. For the best results, participants are encouraged to attend the live coaching calls with Sarah, but each call is recorded and distributed to course attendees for future viewing.

Enrollment Cost:

Limited Time Offer ~ Register NOW for only $550!

Standard Registration

$800 for first registrant from organization
$200 for each additional registrant from organization

CAE Credits = 6

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MemberShift Workshop (with Arizona Society of Association Executives)

MemberShift: Why Members Leave and the Strategies Proven to Bring Them Back

Membership organizations are reporting higher levels of disengagement and decline than ever before. That’s a fact. It’s also a fact membership is not a recognized subject of expertise. There are no degrees, defined requirements, career paths, or educational tracks.

This means the strategies essential to member engagement and growth have remained largely unknown, overlooked, guessed, or left to chance. It also means associations have continued to borrow best practices from business and non-profit models or relied on the traditions of the past.

A new membership strategy is urgently needed, and Sarah Sladek has discovered it.

Sarah delves into the new strategy in her latest book, MemberShift. This workshop is your opportunity to learn and immediately begin to apply many of the turn-around strategies Sarah shares in her book.

A renowned strategist and futurist, Sarah’s research on membership engagement and social change is unparalleled. She has conducted membership research globally and her strategic guidance has been credited with influencing substantial increases in revenues and membership engagement.

Sarah is the best-selling author of five books including theground-breaking book, The End of Membership As We Know It, which topped best-selling charts globally for nine consecutive years.

She is the founder and CEO of XYZ University, and host of the Save the Associations web show and Membership IQ podcast. Sarah has keynoted events worldwide and she was recently named to the list of global Women Who Advance Associations.

Whether your association is struggling to engage younger members, show value, manage change, or strategize for the future, Sarah can help you create a meaningful ‘MemberShift’ in the association and place it on a renewed path for success!