01/18/2024

Internationalizing Boards and Committees

How to make that decision

As your association moves along an international engagement spectrum, there are key junctures and considerations to determine what decisions to make. One of these is whether to bring non-U.S. members or representatives of other constituents that your association serves onto your board or volunteer committee.

As I wrote in my book Going Global for the Greater Good several years ago, doing so can provide several benefits. Among them: creating a broad-based prism for viewing the world and helping to identify and analyze international trends that may affect the organization. At the same time, it sends the message within your organization and to other partners that your association is committed to international engagement.

While there have been some changes in the time since I wrote the book, many of the basic concepts of internationalizing have stayed the same. Here are some major themes.

Please select this link to read the complete article from ASAE’s Center for Association Leadership.