Committees

Community Outreach Committee Chair: Alex Dvorak, advorak@tworld.com

Committee Members: Brad Johnston, Paul Rizzo

Responsibilities

• Accelerate relationship building among members through shared volunteer events.
• Positively impact the community.
• Partner with volunteer organizations whose vision, mission, goals and objectives align as closely as possible with those of the DAB.
• Organize and facilitate quarterly volunteer events.
• Provide “other” opportunities for DAB members to give back to the community throughout the year.

Goals

• 50% member participation goal for all volunteer activities.
• Provide opportunities at a wide variety of times, geographic locations and types to encourage all members to at least volunteer one time a year.
• Effectively communicate monthly through newsletters, the DAB's website and verbally at each monthly meeting on all upcoming community activities.
• Utilize member testimonials in communication plan to raise awareness and increase excitement among DAB membership.
• Formalize partnership with Junior Achievement (JA) in an effort to develop a long-term partnership benefiting both organizations.
• Occasionally hold networking events after activities to further relationship building.

Diversity/Inclusion Committee Chair: David Silverman, david@dsilvermanlaw.com

Committee Members: Dave Johnson, John Jordan, Dan Smink

Responsibilities

• Guide the recruitment and retention of diverse members up to and including diversity in gender, race, socio-economic backgrounds and age, and especially underrepresented minority groups. 
• Be responsible for facilitating cohesion, understanding, and camaraderie among existing members and new members belonging to these groups in an inclusive and non-discriminatory manner. 
• Attract and retain a diverse membership through many approaches, including partnering with minority business groups, hosting minority events, and more. 
• The DAB will avoid affirmative action or other similar quota-based programs.

Events Committee Chair: Adams Price, adams.price@pmcf.com

Committee Members: Ron Jensen, Julie Mansfield

Responsibilities

• Organize monthly meeting catering and A/V needs.
• Organize annual events and catering for:
  • New Year Kickoff Party.
  • Golf/Dinner event.
  • Fall Social.
• Organize Quarterly Happy Hours.
• Organize other events such as the ski day, bowling and a bike event.
• Continue to promote the events through a variety of communications (verbally at the meetings, in the newsletter, Meetup reminders).

Goals

• Increase event participation.

Member Engagement Committee Chair: Bob Dodge, bob@tabdenverwest.com                    

Committee Members: Paul Heffner, Dean Isaacs, Ron Jensen, Dave Johnson, Julie Mansfield, Linda Montgomery Streeter, Karen Susman, Peter Tedstrom

Responsibilities

• Assist our members in gaining maximum benefit based on the DAB’s purpose:  “Creating and growing professional friendships resulting in personal & business success.”
• Provide a variety of opportunities for members to engage with each other to grow relationships.

Goals

• Increase response rate in our annual survey that “Being a DAB member helps my business.”
• Increase response rate in our annual survey that “I plan to renew my DAB membership next year.”
• Achieve at least 90% retention of members annually.

New Member Committee Chair: Camilla Manly, cmanly@akamai-systems.com    

Committee Members: Ken Galecki, Dave Johnson, Colin Kresock, Peter Tedstrom

Responsibilities

• Continue to expand membership in identified and targeted business sectors.
• Maintain optimal membership diversity.

Goals

• Educate members about new electronic nomination and application process.
• Reinvigorate targeted recruitment – build on progress made in the years prior.
• Ideas to get new members announcement to DAB members.

Peer Advisory Groups Committee Chair: Doug Phelps, dougmovesyou@gmail.com 

Committee Members: Colleen Belak, Bob Carrothers, Stu Perlmeter, David Silverman, Kevin Sullivan, Vince Tinnirello

Responsibilities

• • Provide members an opportunity to build member relationships by knowing and understanding other PAG member’s businesses.
  • Provide members a venue to receive structured peer-advisory support, insights from other bu
  • siness owners & executives and a forum to receive feedback, ideas, and advice from other members.
  • Ensure DAB PAG Facilitators are engaged, trained and committed to their groups.
  • Ensure groups work well; have proper structure and accountability.
  • Assist facilitators with topic generation.

Represent DAB PAG Initiative in front of membership, potential members and the public.

• Recruit both facilitators and group members.
• Help members leverage each other as “trusted resources.”

Goals

• Improve member accountability to their group and their group members.
• 5 PAG groups at capacity and stable.
• Launch PAG group to cover the NW Metro area.

Programs Committee Chair: Brian DeLaet, brian@educyber.com                        

Committee Members: Cindy Gomerdinger

Responsibilities

• Enrich and enhance the DAB member experience.
• Create a positive experience for guests as prospective new members.
• Schedule speakers that can provide valuable, useful and interesting content to members at monthly meetings:
  • Focus on a diversity of topics such as leadership, growing a business, communication, Colorado business and economy, and inspirational as requested by the membership.
• Provide knowledge that expands our perspective and awareness on matters connected to our business and professional lives.
• Organize panels and roundtables each year.
• Maintain an alternate networking or event plan in the event of a last minute speaker cancellation.

Goals

• Maintain speaker requirements:
  • Good public speaker.
  • Interesting topic.
  • Applicable topic to our business or personal lives.
• Have a balance between business, local, national and international issues.
• Seek input from all DAB members for speakers and topics.
• Maintain and grow the committee and ensure members are actively involved in the selection and presentation process.
• Collaborate with the Board to identify a successor to lead the committee after an appropriate period of time.