Tomorrow the boards of both The Restaurant Association of Maryland (RAM) and the Restaurant Association of Maryland Educational Foundation meet for a day long discussion about what issues the industry needs to addresses today to best prepare for the future.
The Strategic Planning Steering committee under the leadership of Rob Beall, CEO Ledo Pizza hired a top facilitator, Michael Gallery, to help with the process. The boards will be using member surveys, reulsta from focus groups of members and non-members and interviews with some of Maryland influetntial restaurant leaders.
Dr. Gallery has a doctorate in instructional design, research, and performance measurement. During his 23-year career with the American College of Emergency Physicians, he held a variety of positions, including 14 years as the college's chief operating officer.
Dr. Gallery has also held a variety of leadership positions in the association management profession. He is an ASAE fellow and a past chair of the certifying body for the profession. He has authored more than 40 books, magazine and journal articles and presented at over 50 national and international meetings in his career. He was the recipient of TSAE's Professional Excellence Award in 2001.
Dr. Gallery recently served as the chair of the Center for Association Leadership's Measures of Success Project. This landmark research effort in association management applied the work of Jim Collin's Good to Great to association management. By comparing good associations to visionary ones, the measures task force identified those factors uniquely shared by visionary associations. Jim Collins served as an advisor to the project and wrote the forward to the task force's book on the results: 7 Measures of Success: What Remarkable Associations Do That Others Don't.
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