BOEING LEADERSHIP NETWORK (BLN) P. O. Box 3707 MC 5X-09 Seattle, WA 98124 BLN Executive Board Minutes Tuesday, February 13, 2018 BLN Executive Board Voting Members Present Absent Alternate/Notes * President -- tie breaker Brian Baird * Exec VP Professional Development Christi King * Vice President Membership/Branch Liaison Angela Hall * Vice President Health and Welfare Amy May * Vice President Social Connections Lisa Slagle * Regional Vice President North Lindsey Douglas * Regional Vice President Central Jeffrey Thompson * Regional Vice President South Brian Hughey *Voting members President Appointed Present Absent Alternate/Notes Treasurer Budgets Samantha Bingham Community Outreach Chair Sharon Lucas Secretary Records, Property, Election Kay Hovde Public Relations Liaison Tom Ritzert Business Manager Shannon Russell Retirees Liaison Dennis Honey CALL TO ORDER Brian Baird, BLN President, called to order the February 13, 2018 BLN Executive Board meeting at 5:00 PM. Eight of the eight elected Executive Board voting members were in attendance, meeting the requirement for a quorum. Six of the six current appointed functions were in attendance. Assistant Treasurer Jesse Maciel and Alex Siez, guest of Jeff Thompson, were also in attendance. REPORT OF OFFICERS President s Report Brian Baird, BLN President, shared the agenda and noted that he appointed Beth Anderson as Chair of the 2018 Nominations Committee. Brian also indicated that he would be sending out a copy of his article for the annual report to the board for review and feedback. Secretary Report The January minutes were presented with changes as noted. A motion to approve the minutes as presented was made by Tom Ritzert and seconded by Christi King.
Page 2 DECISION The motion passed unanimously to approve the January minutes. Treasurer Report There was no report this month. Samantha Bingham, Treasurer, sent the February Treasurer s report to the Executive Board on February 20 th.
Page 3 Membership Report Angela Hall, Vice President Membership/Branch Liaison, presented the monthly Membership Report. Angela reviewed the following charts and a summary is below: No change to the committee Noted that the personal recruiting is helping but still not enough; do we step function shift, do the same but harder? 32 new members in January; 12 Associates, 20 full Christi asked if the event coordinator handbook definition was part of this. Angela does not feel this is part of her RAA. Angela holding Membership Committee meeting to review workshop outputs and establish next steps
Page 4 Ongoing Business Strategy Session Focus Implementation Tom Ritzert, Public Relations Liaison, shared the following WBS that resulted from the offsite as well as the volunteers identified to help with the SOW. If anyone is missing from page 3, let Tom know asap. Brian shared that he is reaching out to the SM Emerging Leaders Program via Diana Noble, asking them if they want to participate in focus groups. One on how to make executive speaking events more engaging and the second focus group on how to connect BLN to the new company behaviors. The intent is to have each of the above groups run for approx. one month. Christi noted that we want to ask them to be Event Coordinators as well. Should we ask them to help write/update the Event Coordinator Handbook? Lisa noted that we should also engage the Quality Emerging Leaders as well. Angela noted that functional programming is NOT eligible for associate memberships. ACTION Tom Host a matching event for the list of volunteers to get matched to WBS topics/teams. Meeting to go out in the next few days.
Page 5 Articles: Associate Member Restrictions Brian Baird, President, presented the following BLN info out of the Articles of Incorporation on Membership. Discussion ensued on should we broaden how we bring in associate members. It was noted that leadership comes from all levels, not just managers. Brian agreed to add about eliminating associate memberships to his annual report. It was also discussed that we should have this as part of our May ballot. Tom Ritzert moved that this be a part of the May ballot and Jeffrey Thompson seconded. DECISION The motion passed unanimously to take it to the membership for a vote with the May ballot to remove the associate membership. Specific wording of the rewritten articles and how to communicate the suggested change to the members will be discussed at a future meeting.
Page 6 New Business 2018 Elections Update Kay Hovde, Secretary, reminded the group that Beth Anderson is the 2018 Nominations Chair. She also shared that the committee has the needed reps from the three regions. The kick-off meeting is scheduled for Thursday, February 15 th. The committee will work to identify candidates for four positions to go on the ballot: President Vice President Personal Well Being Vice President Community Outreach Vice President South Region And she pointed out that there are two appointed positions this time: Secretary and Chair Membership. The goal is to have the candidates identified by April 6 th so Shannon has time to put the ballot together for distribution. Reports of Committees Professional Development/Networking Christi King, Executive Vice President, Professional Development, presented the monthly report. Christi reviewed the following charts and a summary is below: They really looked at the pillar definitions and how to solicit additional offerings Christi took time to review the Workshop Actions that applied to her team noting - The list of balanced offerings - Brainstorming on Jan 11 and Feb 2 - Mapped offerings - 2-3 Marquis fun events - More panel discussions - Create fun teaming events - Work Event Coordinator document and enlist more coordinators - Track financials Christi shared the Grateful Leadership event which provides intentional networking time. This is cohosted with the Diversity Council. She noted that they have built in the Boeing Behaviors into this event. Christi also talked about the IMS offerings in the Seattle area which BLN has been able to capitalize on in past years. Great course offerings at a significant reduction. How do we make these more visible since they are not filling up? Christi shared the budget charts which reflects their plan to spend ~$700/mo.
Page 7 Next steps include aligning offerings to the budget, working on the event coordinator handbook and soliciting more event coordinators.
Page 8 Personal Well Being Amy May, Vice President, Health and Welfare, presented the monthly report. Amy reviewed the following charts and a summary is below: Noted that Nancy is back full-time, she is an active event recruiter so her assistance is greatly appreciated Amy shared her help needed for event coordinators Noted that at this same time last year six events had been held, at one to date with 26 planned Have lots of upcoming events but really need coordinators
Page 9 Social Connection Lisa Slagle, Executive Vice President, Professional Development, presented the monthly report. Christi reviewed the following charts and a summary is below: No change to committee structure 2018 focus is on communication, updating the event coordinator package and having standards for communication of events Alex spoke about modernization of the website and some of the obstacles o Aiming to have the shell by April Social events are moving forward but there is a need for more networking opportunities Winterfest is considering adding tubing to its event.
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Page 11 ACTION ITEM REVIEW Kay Hovde, BLN Secretary, noted that she and Tom met to close out those action items that were duplicative of the WBS items identified at the offsite. She then reviewed the items line by line. A summary of the current status provided by the Board and the Action Item Log is embedded below: The most current version of the action item log is located on the BLN server: \\NW\data\BMA\BMA\Current Exec Board Meeting\BMA Executive Board Action Item Log.xlsx NEXT MEETING Upcoming Board Events: March 20, 2018, 5:00 PM, Bellevue: Conf Rm 33-07.3, 31E2, Sapphire
Page 12 ADJOURNMENT The business meeting was adjourned at 6:47 PM. Respectfully Submitted, Kay Hovde BLN Secretary Records & Elections The following charts were not shown at the meeting but are here as reference: Community Outreach
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