Welcome to Louisville Chapter IMA - Who are we?
What a great year the Louisville Chapter of the IMA just had. I am honored and humble to be the President of the Louisville Chapter of the IMA for the coming year.
I want to thank Justin Lawrence for his leadership these past 3 years. We plan on building on this leadership and continue to make the Louisville Chapter fully engaged with all of our members from the Greater Louisville area and all of the surrounding communities that we represent.
I would like to introduce the Board of the Directors for the coming fiscal year that starts July 1st:
· James Ward, CMA – President
· Ted Bordador – Engagement VP
· Jean Isaacs – Treasurer
· Brian Schaefer – Secretary
· Heather Oeswein – Director
· Jennifer Lynn Taylor - Director
· Katherine Clark - Director
I would also like to thank Justin Lawrence for his leadership for the past 3 years. We plan on building on this leadership and continue to make the Louisville Chapter fully engaged with all of our members from the Greater Louisville area and all of the surrounding communities that we represent.
We will start by focusing on the following areas, but as we hear from you the members, we will work on expanding our outreach and events. We will focus on:
· Best in class student engagement to teach accountants the benefits of the CMA, CSCA or the fmaa. We will be able to accomplish this through networking events on college campuses and having some of our local professionals help with mentoring young adults in their career paths.
· We will continue to have regular volunteer events, along with other networking and socials events to continue to build withing our IMA community and share all of our successes within the Louisville Chapter social media accounts.
· We will continue to provide CPE events on the latest and most relevant technology that is impacting our community, but also hot topics that impact all areas of accounting including Ethics, AI, Tariffs, costing cutting along with many additional other topics.
Who We Are:
The Louisville IMA Chapter is made up of Professionals & Students who live or work ifrom Elizabethtown, Bardstown, Shelbyville, La Grange Ky in the south and east of Louisville to our members that represent New Albany, Clarksville, Jeffersonville, IN all the way north to Salem, and Scottsburg, IN. All members are also members of the Global Professional Organization: Institute of Management Accountants (IMA).
What We Do:
The Louisville IMA Chapter is a local resource for IMA Members to attend professional Educational Events (CPE), gain leadership, obtain mentorship and a community of professionals and students who have an interest in Management Accounting within their industry
To better grow as a chapter, please feel free to email us at louisville@imachapter.org or message me on LinkedIn with any ideas or recommendations on how our Chapter can improve or better meet your needs
I look forward to serving and working with each and every one of you to make the Louisville Chapter of the IMA a success and to help you achieve your professional and personal goals!
James Ward, CMA
President of the Louisville IMA Chapter