“I have experience, coupled with an immense desire to see NABIP flourish, and I have the passion to see it through.”
Why?
I believe NABIP is at a crossroads. NABIP, as well as our state and local chapters are suffering, and even some of them are standing on a precipice.
If change does not happen quickly, our ability to be an advocate for the consumers our members represent will cease to exist. Our decision at this crossroads is to continue doing the same things we have done for years and years, all the while expecting the results to be different, or we can rise up and push for change. We need to develop unique and creative ways of raising funds for NABIP so that we can use those funds to dramatically improve our infrastructure, our brand, and our overall presentation and offerings as an association. We need to embrace and develop new programs and tools that speak to what our members really need. We need to be known as the source for all things related to health insurance. We can’t do that with slow changes here and there. We can’t do that by doing things the same way we’ve always done them.
We need business-minded and future-looking leaders to come alongside our CEO, the NABIP staff, and our members to drive these changes forward. Quickly, and unapologetically.
Why Vice President?
We take it for granted when we assume the association will be around forever. The association has lost over 6000 members in the past 10 years, and we have generated 1 million dollars less revenue than we did 10 years ago. At the current rate of decline in both membership and finances, we can’t be assured of NABIP’s future. We need something new, and radical. We need a champion of growing, renewing, and rebuilding. We need a leader in business, sales and marketing to move NABIP forward. I am that person. Now is the time for change because tomorrow may be too late.
Contested Races
The greatest injustice this association sees every year is no choice for our members, no choice for our delegates, just people automatically being put in a position, regardless of how good or bad they are doing, but there because they had a previous job. Since when does having a job guarantee you a promotion? In my company, I would never promote someone just simply because they did the job that is typically below the next position. I promote based on skill, experience, and culture. We are a civic pointed association; we work in politics. Imagine a local state or federal election where no one ever ran against someone. Where it was just assumed that the representative would become a senator, and the senator automatically became the president. And no one runs against those people because they “deserve” to be there or because that’s how things are or because they have “experience.” Experience is blood, sweat and tears, it’s earned through actions, it’s learned from others, it’s established through results. The best person for leadership exhibits this level of experience.
