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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.