Notes from the Robert Ivy Visit
AIA Ft. Worth Visit with CEO Robert Ivy, FAIA
Notes from November 20, 2013
Attendees:
President – J. Romigh
President-Elect- D. Gatzke
Secretary – D. Roe
Treasurer – T. Stewart
VP Communications – B. Allen
VP Education – J. Earley
VP Honors – G. Ibanez
Dir-at-Lg – C. Davis
I/A Director – J. Mejia
PP Director – B. Shaw
Dir. Fundraising – M. Bennett
TSA Director – S. Dennehy
ExD. – Alesha Niedziela
2014 Board:
Dir-at-Lg – Amy Brooks
Emerging Professional Director – Jennifer Branham
VP Honors –Norman Ward
Secretary – Amanda Schulte
Additional Associates Invited:
Joseph Cannon
Agustina Siquot
Chris Ortiz
- Clarity of Organization
- Ambiguity of evolution as decision making body
- Representation or not?
- Leadership Development Committee:
- Gatekeeper to the Board
- Council = Leadership to the Board
- Corporation?
- AIA is member-driven
- Texas Nominating Committee:
- Decisions by Board of Directors
- Regional Representation
- Member-Driven
- Formula for fewer
- Knowledge Communities:
- Are they active?
- Adequate funding to get out to members?
- Money and influence
- Geographic
- Texas Role:
- Texas worked hard
- Works well
- Losing ground
- Fly over states?
- Driven by someone with an agenda
- Texas Role:
- Structure of Governance:
- Programs
- How best to govern?
- Cart before the horse
- AIA Foundation
- Member service
- How governance will impact?
- Task new governance with new issues
- Call Council = Board
- Call Board = Executive Committee
- Right small group
- Members don’t feel represented
- What makes us different?
- College of Fellows – works differently
- Smaller, more elite
- We need to be out in front of Big Issues (Architecture for Humanity)
- Emerging Professionals = want action
- Cooperate with sister organization
- C. ED
- Design Practice Academy
- Like teaching hospital
- Operated by schools
- Funded by profession
- ACSA:
- How control perpetuated
- Who shows up? Could get distorted
- How does leadership development fit in?
- Could become agenda driven
- Potential leaders?
- Ground rules?
- Members have to rotate diverse regional representation
- Texas has nominations committee
- Sometime too inclusive
- Large percentage of new members
- Value of membership
- Value of Portal
- Meaning of being a member
- Makes us better architects
- Non-member is less committed
- Clarity of what we want to do
- How does it all relate?