Board of Directors

Board of Directors Organizational Chart

President: Marcia Soderberg

Duties of Office

As President of ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter, Marcia’s primary role is to provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership. Her main responsibilities include developing key strategies for the chapter and leading the Board in establishing goals, action plans and measures to accomplish them.

Biography

Marcia Soderberg is a developer of serving leaders. As a coach, trainer and consultant, she comes alongside people, empowering them to make the transformational changes they seek for their lives and organizations. Marcia has a passion for inspiring people and organizations to move from where they are to dynamic environments valuing people and results. She brings over twenty years of experience leading and managing in financial services and non-profit environments. She has served over fifteen years as a ministry leader, growing individuals and teams to greater ministry effectiveness.

Having a background in organization development, Marcia has experience moving from conception to completion such organizational strategic initiatives as mission, values and vision development, branding and renaming, and communications systems. She’s the recipient of communications best practices awards from the Public Relations Society of America, Credit Union Executives Society and Credit Union National Association.

Marcia is the founder of ServingLeaderz, an organization that focuses on growing and developing servant leaders in churches, non-profits and schools. She’s a long time member of Lansing South Church of the Nazarene, where she currently serves on the Board of Trustees and focuses on developing church leaders. Marcia is the newly-elected President for the Mid-Michigan Chapter, American Society of Trainers and Developers. She’s a Member of Michigan Coaches and the International Coach Federation where she is working toward ACC coach credentials. She holds a BA in Management andOrganization Development from Spring Arbor University. Marcia is also a certified facilitator with the non-profit Lead Like Jesus, co-founded by author and leadership developer Ken Blanchard. Her son, Alan, currently serves in the military and lives with his wife and son in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

President-Elect: (Open Position)

The President-Elect acts for the President in the President’s absence. The President-Elect serves and facilitates planning in preparation for his/her term as President. The President-Elect performs other duties as requested by the President, including service as liaison to the program director and ad hoc committees.

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Immediate Past President: Debbie Myrand

Duties of Office

As Immediate Past President of ASTD Mid Michigan Chapter, Debbie’s primary role is to mentor the president and help provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership. Another position Debbie fills is Vice President of Operations. In this capacity, she coordinate with other Vice Presidents the planning and implementation of special events and maintains all official records of the chapter except for finance and membership. She will assist in development and implementation of chapter annual plan.

Biography

Since 2001, Debbie has worked for the Michigan Catholic Conference. The first 2 years as an Operations Specialist and currently as a trainer for e-business, training Bookkeepers and Business Managers of Catholic entities throughout Michigan. She is also an on-site trainer for the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Prior to working for the Michigan Catholic Conference, Debbie spent 14 years in Early Childhood Education receiving her Child Development Associate Credential from Lansing Community College. Debbie was the owner of a child care business for 10 years as well as a Temporary Employment Service, then worked as a Director for a Lutheran based child care program and moved on to work as the Director of a non-profit Before and After School program. During this time, Debbie served as a Board Member for the Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children, the Central Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children and the Michigan Providers Alliance. She was a conference presenter at many local and statewide Early Childhood Conferences and specialized in training others to maintain proper business records. She also validated small childcare businesses seeking national accreditation. Her community involvement includes 3 years as chair of the St. Mary Annual Fall Festival; two years as a leader for Girl Scouts; 6 years as a committee member and leader for Boy Scouts and 2 years with the Haslett Athletic Boosters Club.

Debbie looks forward to serving as a board member of the Mid Michigan Chapter of ASTD and meeting the many members the chapter serves.

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Vice President of Education: Diane Miller

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Education leads the education committees in program development and Special Interest Groups (SIG) development.

Biography

Diane R. Miller was born and raised in the Lansing, MI area. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management from Davenport University and is currently pursuing a Master’s in Organization Development. After working several years at Consumers Energy Company she began working with GreenStone Farm Credit Services in 2002. She currently works in their Human Resources Department as the Manager of Training and Development where she is responsible for leading and directing the Association’s training and development activities.

Vice President of Finance: Debbie Myrand (Interim)

Duties of Office

As Vice President of Finance, Debbie reports on the financial condition of the chapter at meetings of the Board and at other times when called upon by the president. Debbie also receives revenue, pays expenses, oversees finances and accounts, provides monthly documented reports to the board, monitors the annual budget and serves as liaison for the yearly audit. The calendar year shall be the fiscal year.

Biography

Since 2001, Debbie has worked for the Michigan Catholic Conference. The first 2 years as an Operations Specialist and currently as a trainer for e-business, training Bookkeepers and Business Managers of Catholic entities throughout Michigan. She is also an on-site trainer for the Michigan Catholic Conference.

Prior to working for the Michigan Catholic Conference, Debbie spent 14 years in Early Childhood Education receiving her Child Development Associate Credential from Lansing Community College. Debbie was the owner of a child care business for 10 years as well as a Temporary Employment Service, then worked as a Director for a Lutheran based child care program and moved on to work as the Director of a non-profit Before and After School program. During this time, Debbie served as a Board Member for the Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children, the Central Michigan Association for the Education of Young Children and the Michigan Providers Alliance. She was a conference presenter at many local and statewide Early Childhood Conferences and specialized in training others to maintain proper business records. She also validated small childcare businesses seeking national accreditation. Her community involvement includes 3 years as chair of the St. Mary Annual Fall Festival; two years as a leader for Girl Scouts; 6 years as a committee member and leader for Boy Scouts and 2 years with the Haslett Athletic Boosters Club.

Debbie looks forward to serving as a board member of the Mid Michigan Chapter of ASTD and meeting the many members the chapter serves.

Vice President of Membership: Carol Grainger, CMP (Interim)

Duties of Office

The Vice President of Membership’s primary role is to promote membership and focus on member initiatives.

Biography

Carol previously worked at:

Vice President of Operations: (Open Position)

The Vice President of Operations’ primary role is to provide vision and direction to the Board of Directors and the membership. Main responsibilities include developing key strategies for the chapter and leading the Board in establishing goals, action plans and measures to accomplish them.

Vice President of Outreach: (Open Position)

The Vice President of Outreach’s primary role is to oversee chapter publicity efforts and prepare the newsletter. The Vice President of Outreach also works with the Membership and Program committees to create a plan to market and maintain chapter membership.
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