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CEO Space isn’t just for entrepreneurs and investors. Management and executive
level representatives from established businesses have plenty to gain from
CEO Space’s educational, cooperative environment.
- the opportunity to earn continuing education credits
- unparalleled relationship opportunities with entrepreneurs, investors and other business leaders
- sponsorship opportunities
- 5 annual conferences to help keep business skills sharp
- in-room presentation opportunities
and much more!
For conference dates and more information, go to
membership in May 1999 and had hundreds
of members virtually overnight.
Intentions: Think of the vision as the big
“why”: the cause that makes people want
to engage with your nonprofit. Think of the
mission as your nonprofit’s “why within a
why”: the impact your nonprofit has chosen
to have with that cause, which excites people
to be part of it. Because EP methods rapidly
produce durable results for a wide variety of
challenges, from clearing away psychological
baggage to facilitating peak performance,
ACEP’s vision is for it to become standard
care for a wide range of helping professionals
and leading self-help methods. ACEP’s
mission is to unite innovators, trainers,
practitioners, researchers and supporters of
EP methods into an international family that
establishes the credibility and visibility of
these methods.
Values: Think of values as the principles
that guide how a nonprofit accomplishes its
intentions. ACEP’s core values include 1)
Collaboration, instead of competition, among
innovators and practitioners of different EP
methods. 2) Inclusiveness of mental health
professionals and allied health professionals,
instead of being an exclusive psychologists’
club. 3) Top-of-class professional standards,
ethics, research, training, and responsible
marketing that establish the impeccable
credibility of the field for helping
professionals, consumers and the media. 4)
A feeling of family and fun instead of sterile
professionalism.
Skills & Procedures: Paid staff and
volunteers need to be trained to create
a collaborative culture that successfully
implements your nonprofit’s initiatives.
These skills and procedures collectively
create the infrastructure your nonprofit
needs to effectively accomplish its vision and
mission to align with, rather than sacrifice,
its core values. The skills engine at the heart
of a nonprofit’s success is the quality of its
engagement agreements, breakdown repair
procedures, and performance review process.
These need to be designed to maximally
support your nonprofit in achieving its slice
of the big cause it’s supporting by effectively
engaging your donors, volunteers, staff and
administrators through effective expectation
management. (More about these in future
articles.)
Sixteen years after its founding, ACEP
flourishes as an international nonprofit, in
part, I hope, because of the care that my late
co-founder and I, with our founding Board,
took to define its vision, mission, values and
goals, and to build the infrastructure (skills
and procedures) required for long-term
success. I encourage you to do this with your
nonprofit to ensure its ability to flourish
sustainably over the long term.
Dr. David Gruder is a multi-award winning clinical and
organizational development psychologist specializing
in culture and business psychology. He was founding
president of a thriving international nonprofit, is on core
faculty for the California Institute for Human Science,
and is co-head of faculty for CEO Space International.