Past December 7, 2022

LACA Condo Board Leadership Class

This event is being co-sponsored by:

Cornerstone Association Management

ColdBrook Insurance Group

Wednesday Dec 7th at 2:00 to 4:30

Registration & Coffee at 2:00 and class will start at 2:15

Howard Miller Library, 14 South Church, Zeeland

At our recent meeting we noted how many new board members & officers were attending. LACA is excited to offer a class for new board members. It is a session we have been considering offering yearly. We were thinking about a title like “So you have been elected to the board…now what?”

We reached out to Thomas Engblom who spoke at our June meeting and he has agreed to put on an abbreviated version of a Condo Board Leadership Class he has done many times. He is highly qualified. His bio is below.

Presidents, newer board members and anyone else interested are encourage to attend. Thanks to our co-sponsors here is no charge but we are requiring you to go to wmlaca.com to register. You will find a sub tab for registering under the meetings tab. Seating is limited to 160.

Link to Registration Page

Condo Board Leadership Class

Community association board members and volunteer leaders step up to take on positions of service and responsibility. They’re expected to anticipate issues, solve problems, meet the expectations of their residents and protect property values.

This Board Leadership Class will help you become a more successful board member. You’ll learn the role of the board, the president, and other leadership positions, how to recruit and support new volunteers, and effective ways to work with professional managers and service providers.

This class consists of five modules:

Module 1: Governing Documents and Roles & Responsibilities

Module 2: Communications, Meetings and Volunteerism

Module 3: Fundamentals of Financial Management

Module 4: Professional Advisors and Service Providers

Module 5: Association Rules & Conflict Resolution

Thomas C. Engblom Vice President, Regional Account Executive Midwest CIT

Thomas C. Engblom is a vice president and regional account executive in CIT’s Community Association Banking business, where he is responsible for supporting community associations in the northern Midwest region. Engblom’s territory covers Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Kentucky and Ohio. In Minnesota and Michigan, he served as a member of the Community Association Institute chapter’s board of directors, and in Illinois he served as both chapter president and director.

Engblom came to CIT when it acquired the former Mutual of Omaha Bank in January 2020. His career as an association banker began in 2004 when he became part of the CAI (Community Association Institure) Business Partners Council. Prior to that Engblom was a property manager.

In 2018, Engblom was awarded his doctorate in business administration from Northcentral University. His dissertation was dedicated to a qualitative analysis of job satisfaction and education for community association managers. In addition, he has been named as a Certified Property Manager (CPM) by the Institute of Real Estate Management, and as a Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM) by the Community Associations Institute.