He led organization for association executives for 16 years, had personal and professional impact on many peers, fought for diversity.

For the new head of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the ties to the firearms industry run deep.

New Jersey-based ISPOR says careful planning, board buy-in helped it achieve a mostly painless digital transformation.

Changing times undermine command-and-control approach as faster decisions are necessary.

States are likely battlegrounds for many issues that remain contested at federal level; associations stress need for market solutions.

Association of Global Automakers, Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers combine into new group emphasizing innovation.

Association veteran must harmonize certification programs, eliminate redundancies while shuttling between far-flung offices.

With an increasing number of businesses forgoing traditional systems of decision making, associations may want to take notice.

Cross-department collaboration should be embedded in an association’s very DNA and be a core expectation of staff, “meaning it needs to be in performance evaluations and folks need to know they will be evaluated on how well they collaborate across the organization,” said John Hockman, principal at McKinley Advisors.