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 Cate Bower



Catherine D. (Cate) Bower, CAE
Principal Partner

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Consulting Accomplishments
A skilled facilitator and an award winning strategist and writer, Bower has successfully helped clients:
Transition a House of Delegates from a traditional meeting format to a dialogue based approach that streamlines process while providing the opportunity for all participants to fully engage
Create strategic plans which position organizations to anticipate changing environments and deliver increased value to members
Realign governance processes and structures to be more strategic and less cumbersome and then reshape both the work of both volunteer and staff subgroups of the organization to support new structures
Train boards and committees to be more strategic in their focus and to understand how to conduct their work through dialogue and conversation rather than through position power and politics
Conduct organizational audits to align the work of the organization and the structure needed to ensure the work can get done effectively
Facilitate sensitive conversations across constituency groups or industries
Assess the needs of key stakeholder groups through phone and focus group research to ensure leadership hears what really matters to move its decisions forward
Association Management Experience
Prior to entering consulting in 1991, she spent 20 years in association management and organizational communications. As Vice President for an international management-focused association, she developed and implemented its ground-breaking and nationally-recognized issues management program, created the organization's communications function, and had responsibility for publications, public relations, marketing, sales, strategic planning and issues management. Under her tenure, she transitioned an academic journal into an award winning, profitable business magazine; oversaw the development of new products and services, and established new profit centers for the organization.

Education and Professional Involvements
A Fellow of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE), she has chaired both its Research Committee and its Communications Section Council, served two terms on the ASAE Foundation Board of Directors, and chaired the 2003 Strategic Leadership Forum of ASAE.

She served as core faculty for the Power of Partnership Symposium sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and serves as co-facilitator for the Canadian Society of Association Executive's CEO Symposium Program. A graduate of Kent State University, she is a frequent speaker on management issues, association management andcommunications, and is a Certified Association Executive. As a Principal Partner in Tecker Consultants, LLC, Catherine Downes Bower is President of Cate Bower Communications.

She served as core faculty for the Power of Partnership Symposium sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals and serves as co-facilitator for the Canadian Society of Association Executive's CEO Symposium Program. A graduate of Kent State University, she is a frequent speaker on management issues, association management andcommunications, and is a Certified Association Executive.

As a Principal Partner in Tecker Consultants, LLC, Catherine Downes Bower is President of Cate Bower Communications.

What Clients Have to Say
Scoliosis Research Society

To learn more about how Cate and Tecker Consultants can help your organization, contact us at 215.493.8120.