Education

Experience sessions that inspire new thinking, promote innovative solutions, and supply you with strategies to help your organization thrive. Engage in provocative discussion with peers and influential thinkers both within and beyond the association community. From workplace culture to membership value, technology infrastructure to governance, ELEVATE 2025 promises to invigorate and inspire!

Attendance at ELEVATE may be applied for up to 12 CAE credits and may also qualify for CMP credits.

Complete education session lineup coming January 2025 and will be announced via e-mail.

Keynote

Joe Gerstandt
Freedom Fighter. Freak-flag Flier.

Joe has worked with Fortune 100 corporations, small non-profits, government entities, and everything in-between. He is a featured contributor for the Workforce Diversity Network Expert Forum. His insights have been published in Diversity Best Practices, Diversity Executive, HR Executive, numerous other print and on-line journals, and he co-authored the book Social Gravity: Harnessing the Natural Laws of Relationships.

Joe serves on the Intersectional Culture and Diversity Advisory (ICD) Council for the social networking platform, Twitter, the U.S. Technical Advisory Group’s Diversity and Inclusion Working Group within the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), and the board of directors for the Tri-Faith Initiative, which brings together in permanent residency a synagogue, church, mosque, and interfaith center on one 38-acre campus in the middle of America’s heartland.

Joe believes that we can all afford to continue applying a 20th century approach to an increasingly critical set of 21st century issues. A strong advocate for resetting the diversity and inclusion conversation, he sees diversity and inclusion as poorly understood and often misunderstood. His keynote messages and interactive workshops bring greater clarity, action, and impact to existing and new organizational diversity & inclusion efforts.

Emcee & Keynote

Jeff Harry
Rediscover Your Play

Jeff combines positive psychology and play to heal workplaces, help teams build psychological safety, and assist individuals in addressing their biggest challenges by embracing a play-oriented approach to work.

Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers and has been featured in the NY Times, Mashable, Huffpost, Wired, NPR, NatGeo, & Forbes. Jeff has worked with Google, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day.

Over the past 15 years of facilitation and speaking, Jeff’s main goal has been to help work suck less by assisting leaders in building a playground workplace atmosphere that motivates their staff to do their most vibrant work.