Challenge Management, Inc. (CMI) is celebrating its 13th anniversary in 2011. Since 1998, CMI has been providing superior services to professional societies and trade associations, helping volunteer leaders marshall the energy and resources necessary to achieve their goals and objectives. Our "unique selling proposition" is our people. We take great pride in our knowledge of association management issues, our dedication to exceeding expectations, and our commitment to ensuring that our client associations are better through our efforts!
John Swinburn, CAE (President) has had a 30+ year career as an association executive, having served in several senior-level executive positions. His career includes more than seven years as Executive Director of the International Association of Assembly Managers, where he more than tripled the budget to $3.1 million, and increased reserve funds to more than $1.6 million. He also served as Senior VP/COO of the International Association for Exhibition Management, the world's largest association devoted to the advancement of trade and consumer show development, operation, and management. He served as Technical Activities Director and Associate Executive Director for the National Association of Corrosion Engineers, where he was responsible for the operations division (membership, meetings, education, certification, and publishing).		Janine Bethscheider, Ph.D. (Executive Vice President), an educational psychologist, social sciences researcher, and statistician by education and experience, brings considerable analytical and sophisticated statistical skills to Challenge Management. Her background and experience in survey research, validation of psychometric instruments, and related quantitative psychological activities, coupled with skills in financial records management and tax preparation which she developed outside of her primary professional career, give Janine a unique set of skills to serve the company and our clients. Her special skills and capabilities, while applied primarily internally for corporate operations, are available as necessary and appropriate for our clients.
In addition to our principals who are experienced association management professionals, we rely on a cadre of unmatched administrative support professionals who share a common commitment to perform at the highest level, meet our and our clients' needs and expectations, and help them grow along with us. Aside from their strong administrative abilities, they share something else...ambition! They want to see our clients grow, of course, but they want to grow, too! We engage support professionals who we believe have the capability to become association managers and executives, so the people who today are handling the background work for our clients will, we hope, become client managers and executives, themselves!