An expert voice on leadership, culture, and organizational change.
Here you’ll find a collection of what people have shared about my work and thought leadership.
This first edition of the Institute for Association Leadership’s Almanac contains chapters on a variety of salient issues and emerging trends in association leadership, including lobbying, financial strategy, generative governance, and professionalization. I’m proud to have been invited to contribute my perspective on Creating a Culture of Belonging in associations in the first chapter of…
I was invited to share my thoughts for association executives along with 45 other association experts from around the world in this collection of articles showcasing contemporary thinking on governance, membership, revenue, events, and much more. This is a great resource for those looking for inspiration and motivation for 2022. Download “Associations Evolve: 2022 &…
The Guild of Architectural Ironmongery (GAI) in the United Kingdom invited me to contribute to their journal on this important and emerging topic for their members. As the top executive of their sister organization in North America, I served many of these same members for 12 years and am so pleased to be working with…
Healthcare Business Management Association (HBMA) invited me to speak at their annual conference to help their members bring DEI to their businesses. Listen to this conversation with their executive director and HBMA board member as we preview this general session. LISTEN NOW >>
Sharon shares basic DEI best practices for The Institute of Association Leadership’s Forum Focus in this post-session recording, then dialogues with the Managing Director, Andrew Chamberlain about how to apply the work, especially around allyship. LISTEN NOW >>
Listen to this episode of Association Transformation Podcast: Empowering Diversity, Equity and Inclusion where hosts Elisa Pratt-Brewer and Andrew Chamberlain invited Sharon to this inaugural conversation for the podcast. Stay through to the end, as they weave from the basic “how to” towards a powerful punctuation about the greater purpose of this work. LISTEN NOW…
In this SmithBucklin podcast episode, Jason Meyers, senior director, SmithBucklin Content Services, sits down with SmithBucklin’s director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), Robin Rone, and SmithBucklin executive, Sharon Newport, CAE, to discuss the importance of the company’s inCouncil and how the group influences and develops important diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives for SmithBucklin’s employees…
Watch Sharon and her distinguished association executive colleagues share their thoughts on stewardship during COVID-19. WATCH NOW >>
I was proud to be invited to this important event and have a candid conversation with my trusted colleagues and our association community about being an association executive, leader, and a woman. We talked about more than you might imagine we would! We discussed how to make the most of the challenges you face and…
