Virtual / April 23-24, 2025
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Transform your association’s marketing efforts and unlock new possibilities with VMAE ThinkWORKS 2025, a two-day virtual deep dive into the strategies, tools, and insights driving success for mission-driven organizations. This program is designed to provide actionable takeaways, interactive collaboration, and practical solutions to marketing challenges faced by associations of all sizes.
What You’ll Gain at ThinkWORKS 2025:
Interactive and Engaging:
This isn’t just a conference—it’s a chance to connect, create, and grow. Engage in meaningful discussions with colleagues and VMAE Strategic Initiative Partners during a virtual social hour. Test your creativity with a LEGO set, delivered to your doorstep, symbolizing the creative process of building impactful marketing campaigns. Dive into fun icebreakers like the Mad Libs Marketing Campaign and the AI Marketing Assistant Challenge, designed to get you thinking creatively and collaboratively. These activities, paired with the conference’s key insights, will help you construct stronger, more strategic marketing campaigns.
Why Attend?
ThinkWORKS 2025 is your chance to sharpen your skills, explore new technologies, and connect with peers who share your challenges and aspirations. Whether you’re leading marketing efforts or looking to elevate your team’s approach, you’ll leave equipped with the tools, insights, and connections to drive success.
Register by April 9, to secure your exclusive ThinkWORKS Experience Box (a copy of Tony Rossell’s new book, LEGO set, and more) and build the foundation for your association’s marketing success. Don’t miss this opportunity to reimagine what’s possible—let’s build it together!
Mary Byers, CAE, CSP, is co-author of Race for Relevance: Five Radical Changes for Associations and Road to Relevance: 5 Strategies for Competitive Associations. She’s the former director of communications and member services for the Illinois State Dental Society and served in that capacity for nine years prior to starting her consulting business in 1998. Since then, she’s worked with over 300 associations, including the Million Dollar Round Table, American and Illinois Farm Bureaus, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the American Association of Medical Society Executives.
Mary specializes in working with volunteer association leaders and chief staff executives to help define their roles and clarify their vision through leadership conference programming, facilitating strategic planning retreats and coaching. She’s a skilled listener and able to help initiate and manage difficult conversations and to articulate a preferred future.
Mary is a certified association executive, a certified speaking professional, and a certified virtual presenter. She is also the author of seven books.
Partners receive attendance opportunities to VMAE meetings based on sponsorship level:
Titanium: 8 per sponsorship year
Platinum: 4 per sponsorship year
Gold: 3 per sponsorship year
Silver: 2 per sponsorship year
Bronze: 1 per sponsorship year