THE IA FORUM COMMUNITY MODEL & EXPERIENCE

As a professional community built upon the below IA FORUM models, community members are better equipped to drive meaningful business impact back into their organizations, optimize their current project initiatives and priorities, boost their market value, and accelerate their short & long-term career trajectories.

Community Model & Experience 

• Highly personalized, “White Glove” member experience - with direct, immediate, and ongoing Founder access, guidance, and support
• Designed to provide members with immediate and long-term business & career advancement value
• Intentionally boutique & selective
• Highly collaborative, engaging, interactive & welcoming
• Strictly for enterprise practitioners
• Tightly connected community where all members - regardless of their career seniority - freely collaborate, benchmark, and network with each other
• Members obtain valuable insights to drive business impact within their organizations - optimizing their current & ongoing project initiatives
• Designed to enhance members’ technology and digital & business transformation skill sets and acumen
• All community programs remain vendor-neutral - vendor sales pitches and endorsements are strictly prohibited
• Members’ contact information & insights are never shared with 3^rd parties or vendors - nor leveraged for commercial or market intelligence purposes

Community Structure & Global Footprint

• Practitioner-only community
• Industry & functional area agnostic
• Consists of C-Suites, senior-level executives, accomplished professionals, and rising stars across technology and digital & business transformation
• Includes practitioners from the full spectrum of technology and digital & business transformation ecosystem
• Balanced representation of GBS, CoE, shared services, and functional area leaders driving digital & business transformation initiatives
• Technology professionals - in a sales or marketing job role - with a vendor company - are not permitted within the community
• Virtual U.S. and global member community
• In-person LOCAL member communities

Peer Collaboration, Benchmarking & Knowledge Sharing

• Highly collaborative, engaging, interactive & welcoming
• Tightly connected community where all members - regardless of their career seniority - freely collaborate, benchmark & share knowledge with each other
• Peer Partnerships & Mentorships
• Contribute content to the IA FORUM Magazine - a 24/7 public-facing digital magazine
• IA FORUM Slack Workspace - includes industry topics, members’ content, and benchmarking, collaboration & networking channels
• LinkedIn LOCAL members’ group chat rooms
• LinkedIn post-event “Continue the Conversation” group chat rooms
• IA FORUM YouTube Channel - 1,000+ videos

Thought Leadership Opportunities & Visibility

• All members are highly encouraged to speak on events and contribute content
• Contribute content to the IA FORUM Magazine - a 24/7 public-facing digital magazine
• IA FORUM Slack Workspace - contribute your content, insights, and expertise within the benchmarking & collaboration channels
• Enhance your LinkedIn thought leadership visibility - through new member announcements, speaker event notifications, and thought leadership content sharing
• Amplify your thought leadership visibility - reaching hundreds of U.S. & global C-Suites and senior-level technology and digital & business transformation executives within the IA FORUM community - and extending to hundreds of thousands through external channels

Networking & Member 1:1 Introductions and Matchmaking

• Full access to all U.S. and global community members
• Highly customized member 1:1 introductions & matchmaking - a robust & ongoing community program that strategically connects members based upon similar expertise and priorities
• Tightly connected community where all members - regardless of their career seniority - freely network with each other - enabling them to expand their professional network with highly relevant & strategic business connections that often evolve into trusted allies that support their short & long-term skills development and career trajectories
• Peer Partnerships & Mentorships
• IA FORUM Slack Workspace - direct, real-time access to all U.S. & global members
• LinkedIn LOCAL members’ group chat rooms
• LinkedIn post-event “Continue the Conversation” group chat rooms

Virtual & In-Person Events

• 100+ virtual events annually - highly collaborative, engaging, interactive & welcoming
• In-person LOCAL members’ social events - dinner parties, happy hours, brunches, etc.
• Practitioner-led and attended
• Flexibility to attend virtual events live - or access the event videos and PPTs “On Demand” 24/7
• All members are highly encouraged to speak on events
• Intimate community events where all members - regardless of their career seniority - freely collaborate, benchmark, and network with each other to share practical, high-impact strategies, tool assessments, execution insights, and best practices to strengthen their current and ongoing project initiatives - and enhance their short & long-term skills development and career objectives
• LinkedIn post-event “Continue the Conversation” group chat rooms
• All community programs remain vendor-neutral - vendor sales pitches and endorsements are strictly prohibited