CEO Update Peer Groups
The best advice for tackling your toughest problems often comes from peers who can offer fresh perspective, or who have overcome the same issue themselves. In the spirit of supporting these valuable connections, CEO Update created four peer groups for association executives.
| CEO-level peer groups | Staff-level peer groups |
| CEO Update Roundtable | COO Forum |
| CCO Forum |
To create peer groups with members who have a similar of challenges and a shared experience, each peer group has membership prerequisites. And in order to foster meaningful exchange of ideas and solid, productive bonds among members, peer groups are limited in size.
CEO Update Roundtable
Group size: 150 CEOs, 95% full
Until the peers can meet again in person, members meet quarterly in Zoom calls
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Membership list
MEMBER BENEFITS
- Exclusive invitations to the CEO Update Roundtable Peer Group meetings
- Print subscription and online access to CEO Update
- Two CEO Update memberships assignable to staff members
- The 2021 CEO Update Salary Guide
- Access to Association Intel
- Registration to all CEO Update LIVE events
Annual membership fee: $2,500*
*Current members of CEO Update can apply their existing membership toward the membership fee
MEMBERSHIP PREREQUISITES
Invitations are extended to CEOs of associations with more than $5 million in annual revenue
STEERING COMMITTEE
A Steering Committee for the Roundtable guides this new group and content at the Summit. Steering Committee members are:
- Shirley Bloomfield, CEO, NCTA—The Rural Broadband Association
- Kevin Burke, president & CEO, Airports Council International-North America
- Steve Caldeira, president & CEO, Household & Commercial Products Association
- Kevin Keller, CEO, CFP Board
- Robert Koch, president and CEO, Wine Institute
- Michelle Korsmo, CEO, Wine & Spirits Wholesalers of America
- Tom Kuhn, president, Edison Electric Institute
- Jeffrey Morgan, CEO, Club Managers Association of America
- Susan Neely, president and CEO, American Council of Life Insurers
- Leslie Sarasin, president and CEO, Food Marketing Institute
- Gary Shapiro, president and CEO, Consumer Technology Association
- Matt Shay, president and CEO, National Retail Federation
- Bob Weidner, president & CEO, Metals Service Center Institute
COO Forum
Group size: 50 members (8 spots open)
Meetings
Until the peers can meet again in person, members meet monthly in Zoom calls
More information
Membership list
MEMBER BENEFITS
- Virtual meetings every other month focused on addressing the most pressing issues facing association execs
- Print subscription and online access to CEO Update
- Access to Association Intel
- Registration to all CEO Update LIVE events (currently virtual)
- When restrictions on gatherings lift, the group convenes in two annual half-day meetings
Annual membership fee: $1,200*
*Current members of CEO Update can apply their existing membership toward the membership fee
MEMBERSHIP PREREQUISITES
Invitations are extended to COOs and those with similar responsibilities at large associations.
STEERING COMMITTEE
A Steering Committee guides this group and content at the biannual meetings. Steering Committee members are:
- Elisabeth A. Barna, COO and EVP, Industry Affairs, American Trucking Association
- Jeff Glenzer, COO, Association for Financial Professionals
- Terry Jorde, Sr. EVP/Chief of Staff, Independent Community Bankers of America
- Elizabeth Stewart, COO, CFP Board
- Lori Traweek, COO, American Gas Association
CCO Forum
Group size: 60 members (10 spots open)
Meetings
Until the peers can meet again in person, members meet monthly in Zoom calls
More information
Membership list
MEMBER BENEFITS
- Virtual meetings every other month focused on addressing the most pressing issues facing association communications execs
- Print subscription and online access to CEO Update
- Access to Association Intel
- Registration to all CEO Update LIVE events (currently virtual)
- When restrictions on gatherings lift, the group convenes in two annual half-day meetings
Annual membership fee: $1,200*
*Current members of CEO Update can apply their existing membership toward the membership fee
MEMBERSHIP PREREQUISITES
Invitations are extended to the chief communication executive at large associations.
STEERING COMMITTEE
A Steering Committee guides this group and content at the biannual meetings. Steering Committee members are:
- Megan Barnett Bloomgren, VP, Communications, American Petroleum Institute
- Peter Cook, EVP and CCO, American Bankers Association
- Jessica Hanna, SVP, Public Affairs, Property Casualty Insurers Association of America
- Mike McNamee, Chief Public Communications Officer, Investment Company Institute
- Erin Streeter, SVP, Communications and Brand Strategy, National Association of Manufacturers
- Bill Thorne, SVP, Communications and Public Affairs, National Retail Federation