NBEA President’s Message

Dr. DeLayne Havlovic, Ed.D.

NBEA President

Fall 2022

As your NBEA President for 2022-2023, I look forward to supporting our organization. Being an educators comes with the understanding that every element of our work comes with the foundation of continuous improvement.

In the past year as I prepared to serve as NBEA’s President for 2022-2023, I realized NBEA needed to dig deeper into some of the adaptive challenges that have presented themselves to similar professional associations since COVID protocols changed how we learn and grow as educators. Last year’s NBEA Strategic Planning Committee set goals to focus on enhancing professional development. To accomplish this goal, we will continue to host content-rich and engaging conventions every year but will also focus on online resources like webinars and the addition of an online community.

Second, the NBEA Strategic Plan Committee established the need to think adaptively about membership recruitment, retainment, and engagement. Our regions serve a valuable purpose to our members by providing them an opportunity to connect, share, and network. NBEA is focused on providing regions the opportunity to restructure so that regions do not have to carry the same risk of hosting conferences while still providing members the opportunity to connect in a more direct setting. One such example will be our Eastern Region Symposium to be hosted in White Plains, New York in October.

NBEA will continue to enhance working directly with state associations and the members they serve. Providing state associations a through-line to NBEA benefits, resources, and networking opportunities will ensure members can grow stronger together as a national association rather than as individuals.

Leadership boards from regions have the opportunity to consider what the most current and relevant needs are for the states they serve. Your NBEA Leadership is here to meet your team where you are and to help find opportunities for members in all states to be engaged in the business education ecosystem.