ISSP Leadership Team Meeting Agenda

September 9, 2013 - 5:00-7:00 pm pacific time

Adobe meeting room

http://issp.adobeconnect.com/boardroom/

Attending: Dorothy, Steve, Marsha, Laurel, Julian, Rick

Excused:

Time / Agenda Item / Discussion Points, Decisions, Actions
5:00 / Check in
Where do we want to be in the next 3-5 years / Vision – Give legitimacy to sustainability professionals.
Member responsive organization
Key strategic initiatives:
5000 members
Certification +
Education =
Being THE go to organization
Through virtual and face-to-face connections internationally
International reach
Bigger membership
Network for professionals
What does this imply about our vision and mission? / Our current vision is: Making sustainability standard practice around the world.
Team agrees the vision stands
Our current mission is: Enable sustainability professionals to forward the adoption in their organizations and communities.
ISSP empowers Sustainability professionals to advance sustainability in organizations and communities throughout the world
By….
Being the globally recognized leader of the profession and
Building credibility/recognition for the profession,
Establishing the standards of practice,
Providing professional development to keep professionals current and competent,
and Connecting professionals with each other to share best practices, support and innovation.
DO we want to state something to the effect of we are ensuring certified, educated, recognized professionals are spreading this standard practice.
Discussion:
Liked empower better than enable because it is stronger.
Wanted sustainability professionals to occur early in the sentence to emphasize our target
Should the mission be narrowed to describe what we do or how we empower professionals
Action Items / Marsha will post these results to a Google doc and invite the board to comment
Steve will post a question to his Linked In group “What would compel you to join a professional association?”
Rick will continue to work on a fund raising committee.
Marsha will send out the summary of member feedback
Marsha will post minutes on our board page
6:50 / Adjourn

Proposed Strategic Planning meeting schedule:

Meeting 1. Vision and Mission

·  Revisit and validate or update the vision statement

·  Revisit and validate or update the mission

Meeting 2 (or meeting one if we get to it). Value proposition

·  What is our value proposition? If we were the go to club for everyone working in the field, what would we offer that would compel them to join?

·  And how would we know we were successful? (what are our KPIs)

Meeting 3. Data review – what does the current data say about our performance?

·  Member survey responses

·  Board survey responses

·  Social media analytics

·  Course enrollment numbers

·  Webinar attendance

·  Membership growth and retention

·  Exit survey responses

·  Financial information

·  Benchmark data (if the board obliges)

·  Other?

Meeting 4. Walk through Five stage strategy process

4.1 Identify the arenas in which we should? Assess against which ones we are doing?

4.2 What vehicles do we/should we use? How will we get there? What are we doing now?

4.3 Differentiators – what would differentiate us in the field? What are our current key differentiators

4.4 Staging – how would we roll out the ideas resulting from 4.1 and 4.2?

4.5 Economic plan – What will be our revenue streams? What should be our pricing structure? Does the budget support this?