Jeff De Cagna

Looking ahead to the 2030s: focus on building agency, redirecting attention, enabling adaptation, and engaging in anticipation to leave the organizations for which they are responsible better than how they found them.

Looking ahead to the 2030s, association decision-makers must understand that they are working without a reliable map to navigate the multiple plausible futures that could emerge.

Please enjoy part 3 of my Association Adviser multi-part series that will provide both staff and voluntary association contributors with important guidance they can use to prepare their organizations and stakeholders for the 2030s today.

Please enjoy part 2 of my Association Adviser multi-part series that will provide both staff and voluntary association contributors with important guidance they can use to prepare their organizations and stakeholders for the 2030s today.

After more than a year’s absence from this space, I am very glad to restart to my Association Adviser column in 2026 with a multi-part series that will provide both staff and voluntary association contributors with important guidance they can use to prepare their organizations and stakeholders for the 2030s today.

It saddens me to report that nothing has transpired during the interregnum between my October column and this one to lessen my apprehension about the next sixty months for the association community. In this time, regressive forces have gained momentum and are sowing chaos at home and around the world.

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (10/17/24), there are 1901 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 76…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (9/24/24), there are 1924 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 99…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (8/2/24), there are 1977 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 152…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (7/18/24), there are 1992 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 167…

It is time for association boards to become fit for purpose and meet their successors’ expectations. In an article in the 2024 Associations Now Board Brief, I wrote: “Less than a year before the midway point of The Turbulent Twenties arrives,…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (7/11/24), there are 1999 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 174…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (6/27/24), there are 2013 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 188…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. As of this article’s publication date (6/4/24), there are 2036 days remaining in The Turbulent Twenties, and 211…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. In Part I, in addition to an overview of its origin story, I shared why I believe the board’s duty of foresight was…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna AIMP FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. Association boards have a duty of foresight. Over the last ten years, this foundational assertion, which originated…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. In Part II, I presented a stark and unwelcome picture of how myriad social, technological, economic, environmental, and…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. In Part I of this series, I identified six “root cause orthodox beliefs” at the core of the association decision-makers’…

This article originally appeared on the Virginia Society of Association Executives [VSAE] Blog on October 3, 2023. AUTHOR'S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. In…

AUTHOR’S ATTESTATION: This article was written entirely by Jeff De Cagna FRSA FASAE, a human author, without using generative AI. In Part I, I made clear why associations need fit-for-purpose boards and shared the first three essential habits of mind…