Trade and Professional Association Experience

Leadership Positions in the “Association Community” Held by John Chwat:

• Member, American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)Government Relations Section Council (ASAE includes over 12,000 trade & professional associations in the United States)

• Past Chairman, Government Relations "School" ASAE-Legislative Summit, Washington, D.C. (The "School" trains association executives through seminars on legislative affairs issues)

• Past Chairman, Advanced Institute on Government Relations Program, ASAE (Program is for association executives with over 10 years of government relations experience)

Author

• "Lobbying The Executive Branch," Creating and Managing and Association Government Relations Program, Ed. Michael E.Kastner, ASAE, 1998

• “The Use of Outside Legislative Consultants: When & How to Hire a Lobbyist” The Legislative Labyrinth, Ed. Walter Pidgeon, Wiley & Sons, NY, 2000

• "Congressional Downtime," Association Management Magazine, ASAE, December, 1991

Lecturer

• Faculty, United States Chamber of Commerce, Institute for Organizational Management
  ("students" include chamber and association executives. Topics include "Coalitions," "Government Relations" and "Issue Advocacy.")

• American Society of Association Executives
  (Selected topics over the years have been, "How to use Congressional Parliamentary Procedure," "Working With Legislative Staff," "How to Manage a Government Relations Program," "How to Run a Successful Grassroots Program," "Direct Lobbying-Tricks of the Trade."

Association Representational Activities

• Since the early l980's, John Chwat has had extensive experience in representing the interests of national and state associations in the public affairs area. He has developed a series of contacts and networks of state association executives in all 50 states and has relationships with a wide variety of national association executives and CEO's.

• Served as "the Washington, D.C. office" for a variety of trade and professional associations;

• Presented legislative affairs reports to association boards of directors and executive committees

• Presented public affairs forums and seminars at national & state association conventions & trade shows;

• Prepared articles for association newsletters, magazines and newspapers at the national and state levels;

• Coordinated nationwide membership recruitment campaigns