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2024 Board of Directors Elections Info
Positions Available: President, Programming Vice-President, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Director, Membership Vice-President, District A Director, District B Director, and District C Director.
Formal Candidate Certification will begin on Saturday, July 1, 2023. Campaigning may not begin until July 22, 2023.
All positions will require a filing fee of $25 due at time of certification.
2023 Annual Election Timeline:
● July 1, 2023 Certification/Credentialing Process Begins. No campaigning allowed.
● July 1, 2023 Chapters provided initial notice of outstanding balances.
● July 15, 2023 Chapters provided a second notice of outstanding balances.
● July 22, 2023 Campaigning may begin if and only if a Candidate has been notified by the Elections Committee that they are certified.
● Jul 23, 2023 Meet the Candidates at the Canopy in Grand Rapids
● July 26, 2023 Candidate profiles are due.
● July 31, 2023 Membership deadline for initial delegate determination.
● Aug 1, 2023 Nomination form due, if not turned in with the Certification form.
● Aug 5, 2023 Chapter Presidents will be emailed their delegate count (or reason for no delegates) by the Elections Committee.
● Aug 8, 2023 Special Election edition of Michigander will be published and made available on the JCI Michigan website.
● Aug 8, 2023 Deadline for Chapter Presidents to submit their list of delegate names with email
addresses AND deadline for candidates to submit elections paperwork.
● Aug 11, 2023 Electronic Ballots credentials will be sent to delegates and electronic voting will be open.
● Aug 23, 2023 Virtual Meet the Candidates at 7:00pm
● Aug 31, 2023 Final membership deadline for adding delegates.
● Sept 01, 2023 Chapter Presidents will be emailed if and only if their delegate count has changed since July 31, 2023.
● Sept 05, 2023 Electronic voting portal closes at 11:30 pm
● Sept 06, 2023 Final budget reports are due.
● Sept 06, 2023 Ballots results will be counted and certified by the Elections
Committee and reported to the current President of JCI Michigan.
● Sept 07, 2023 Results will be announced in a special LIVE broadcast, time TBA.
● Sept 30, 2023 Swearing in of elected candidates at the Fall Leadership Conference in Gaylord, MI.
● Oct. 01, 2023 2023 Appointments, Interest meeting and other items as determined by the 2023 officers.
● Nov. 11, 2023 Local Organization Training School (LOTS)
Meet the Candidates for 2024 Board of Directors
Learn more about this year’s candidate for elected office and their aspirations for JCI Michigan in 2024.
Michelle McGrann - Running for President

Home Chapter: Redford Jaycees
Jaycee Since March 2010
What is your current employment and what aspects of your job, Jaycee career, or life experiences have helped you prepare for the Office you are running for?
I own a training and marketing firm with multiple partners. This has given me extensive experience making strategic decisions with a team through discussion. I also serve as our Chief Training Officer where I oversee the training programs for executive leadership teams specifically focusing on culture, communication, and leadership development.
What are the three most important skills or assets you will bring to the Office you are running for?
I think the three most important assets that I can bring to the role of President is my organizational experience in helping a team to stay on track to achieve progress, my experience in helping different teams communicate and work together more successfully, and my experience at the different levels of JCI which allows me to know what resources exist to help our members.
What is the most important role of the position you are running for?
The most important role of the President is to help empower the board and local organizations to be successful. That can mean helping them to find the resources they need, removing roadblocks or challenges, or even just helping to motivate them when times get tough. It should be the President’s job to help the members at all levels achieve the success that they want to achieve.
What inspired you to seek the position you are running for?
My pathway through JCI was not linear, and I feel like there were opportunities that I never knew about until much later in my career. I want to make sure each of our members knows what opportunities are available to them and what resources exist to help them thrive. I also feel that many of our members are looking for development opportunities and I hope that I can leverage my experience and network in that area to provide that to them.
What new ideas or programs would you like to implement?
I would like to create an immersive event or experience that is designed especially for our newer members. This event could help them better understand JCI Michigan, what it is and what we do, and assist them in building relationships across the state much sooner. I think that this would help us in retention efforts as well as better prepare our members for leadership roles even faster.
What do you think is the greatest need of this organization right now and how will you help JCI Michigan meet this need?
I think our greatest need is to take a step back and determine who we are and what we want to be and then use that framework to evaluate our operations and our projects. The world has changed, our members’ needs have changed, and our resources have changed. We need to make sure that what we’re spending time and resources on is helping us get to where we want to go. This should help us better communicate to potential partners the value in working together which could help us to increase our impact in our communities.
Presidential Candidates – What would the role of the board of directors be in your administration?
JCI Michigan serves to provide resources, learning opportunities, and operational assistance to our local organizations and members. The Board of Directors should be focused on helping chapters achieve success. In some cases that will be providing training or motivation. In other cases it will mean removing some of their burdens so that our chapters can provide the development opportunities for their members to achieve impact in their communities.
Megan Jalbert - Running for Programming Vice President

Home Chapter: Livonia Jaycees
Jaycee Since March 2013
What is your current employment and what aspects of your job, Jaycee career, or life experiences have helped you prepare for the Office you are running for?
I am a current pediatric nurse at Children’s Hospital of Michigan. I have been a Jaycee for 10 years now and have competed in almost every competition there is as well as judged many competitions. I am always looking for things to do to grow personally and professionally and I think that is a great characteristic for this office.
What are the three most important skills or assets you will bring to the Office you are running for?
I am very organized and like to have plan A,B,C ready for each situation. I am big on effective communication and will be forward thinking with communicating with the board and members. I have energy which is needed to keep the momentum.
What is the most important role of the position you are running for?
Communication is the most important role in programming. You have to ensure your team is aware of their responsibilities and follow up to ensure they are communicating with whichever group they are responsible with.
What inspired you to seek the position you are running for?
I have always been excited about programming. My passion is skill building as it has not only helped me in my Jaycee career but in my professional career as well.
What new ideas or programs would you like to implement?
I would like to bring back some aspect of in-person competitions and generate some buzz about debate again. I also would like to see some focus on not only trainings but programs related to world events – mental health, health in general, Jaykids.
What do you think is the greatest need of this organization right now and how will you help JCI Michigan meet this need?
I think the greatest need is to set up for the future. We always focus on the current but as a President at the local level I was already looking in the beginning of the year to see who successors would be and I would look and select people to my team that have futures as Programming VPs.
What new ideas or programs would you like to implement?
Jaykids – quarterly programming for them. An activity sent to their house, zooms, movie night.
Skill Building mini series: breaking down the skills into smaller learning modules.
Bring forth sharing of SPE presentations at the state level so members can see all these great projects.
What would the role of the Programming directors be on your team?
The role of directors would be to have parts of the programming delegated to them and mentored by myself to be able to execute programs and grow as leaders. I would hope they would be instrumental in advertising and helping market our plan for the year.
Tyler Roberts - Running for District B Director

Home Chapter: Allegan Jaycees
Jaycee Since June 2021
What is your current employment and what aspects of your job, Jaycee career, or life experiences have helped you prepare for the Office you are running for?
My current employment is at a doggy daycare but I am soon moving into the art department of a label printing company. The experiences that have prepared me the most though, have been my work in retail management and my traveling to a large number of events across the state and out of state.
What are the three most important skills or assets you will bring to the Office you are running for?
The three most important skills and assets that I can offer in this position are creativity, willingness to travel so I can meet with my chapters, and 1 on 1 communication skills so I can find out what needs are.
What is the most important role of the position you are running for?
I believe the most important role of District Director is communicating the needs of my chapters with each other and the state.
What inspired you to seek the position you are running for?
I was inspired to run for District Director primarily because of how much I love to travel to all of the different chapter events. Getting to know their boards and bringing everyone together is just one big plus!
What new ideas or programs would you like to implement?
I know its not a new idea, but once we get district skill building started, I’d like to keep that going and help it to improve. Jumping straight to state skill building can be very intimidating so having a good foundation for this on smaller scale would probably help our members to be more comfortable.
What do you think is the greatest need of this organization right now and how will you help JCI Michigan meet this need?
The greatest need of our organization right now is retention and resistance against burnout. I would love to help this by figuring out the needs of my chapters before their big events and helping to acquire resources for them (either from the state board or other chapters) so they don’t have to spend a ton of time and energy finding everything themselves.
What are your plans for building relationships with your chapters, their leadership and their members?
Honestly just meeting with them and talking to them in person. Its so important to get to know the people your helping so you can find the best way to help them.