Committee Mission
The SAME Membership Committee develops and communicates to all Posts the strategies, best practices, and tools that are most effective for them to grow their membership, to foster greater member engagement and leadership, and to enhance their members’ experience with SAME, further enabling each Post to support the current Strategic Plan of the Society.
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As one of the “operational” Communities of Interest (vs. “technical” COIs), the Membership Committee serves as an extension of the national office staff to assist all Post leaders, especially Posts’ Membership Chairs/POCs, with the tools, resources and connections necessary to help enhance their members’ society experience through their locally relevant Posts. Between our COI members and the post membership chairs/POCs, invited to our calls and sponsored webinars, we are over 140 people strong across SAME.
SAME’s Membership Committee is open to any SAME member to participate. Unlike many of our other COIs that focus in on special professional and technical interest areas important to SAME members, the Membership COI provides participants with a broad-ranging opportunity to become involved at the national level. Our forum has the potential to positively impact the experience of every current and future member of the society as it pursues its strategic goals.
COI Objectives
- Provide opportunities to foster connections with other Post leaders across all sizes and post geographies
- Engage with best practices employed at other Posts by their leaders and members
- Share creative tools and resources aimed at improving post level retention and recruitment successes
Committee Chair
Organization Structure
Vice Chair, Tools & Resources: Dick Kochanek
Chair-Elect, Strategic Direction: Lee Ann Zelesnikar
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion:
- Shante Fields – Mead &Hunt
- Lalitha Benjaram – Mead & Hunt
Staff Liaison: Jill Murphy
Webinar: Understanding the New Membership Structure
Military Membership – What’s in it for You?
Upcoming National Webinars
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USSOCOM Engineering
This webinar will provide a detailed brief on the role of engineering in U.S. Special Operations Command, exploring its important and expansive mission set. Special Operations Command develops and employs the world’s finest special operations force to conduct global special operations -
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One Team, One Fight: Breaking Down Walls in Partnering Sessions
This webinar will look at what happens when a complex, critical to national security project brings together high-level professionals to tackle the job. Along with their invaluable experience however, industry experts often come with matching egos.
Related TME Articles – Membership
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Consolidating Cybersecurity Systems at Cheyenne Mountain SFS
In a first for the Department of the Air Force, Cheyenne Mountain SFS recently integrated dozens of supervisory control and data acquisition and facility-related control systems, as well as related hardware components, into a single enterprise network architecture. -
Increasing Engineer Interoperability
Held this spring at Tyndall AFB, Readiness Challenge X welcomed an unprecedented number of engineer teams from across service branches and allied nations, reinforcing readiness across the U.S. military and international partners. -
The Northernmost Theater: A Crucial Frontier for National Security
With abundant natural resources and a critical geographic positioning, the Arctic continues to rise in importance to America’s strategic interests, requiring an ongoing evolution of military, economic, and diplomatic policy. -
Protecting Military Facilities From Flood Risks
As military installations across the nation face increasing flooding risks driven by climate change, understanding the types of floods, their causes, and available measures to mitigate risk can support better resiliency upgrade projects.
