Recently presented at the ASAE Annual Meeting in Chicago, Ms. Annemarie Weise, Senior Business Development Manager for MCI Benelux and Mr. Kevin Perry, Ed.D, Director of SAE International’s Professional Development division (Retired) will repeat their popular ASAE session.

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Multiple challenges were identified and had to be overcome to allow successful establishing of the organization’s professional development portfolio in Europe:

1. Organization perceived as U.S.-centric + rivalry between U.S. and EU markets
2. Lack of awareness regarding the organization’s offering
3. Need to customize content, pricing and format to the European audience
4. Specificities of the European market (languages, cultures)
   
   

The purpose of this session will be to outline the sales, marketing and course development strategy which was implemented in order to establish the organization’s professional development offering in Europe.

Following the positive results in Europe, the organization extended its offering to Asia and is currently successful in over 30 countries. 

About the Presenters

Annemarie Weise is Senior Business Development Manager at MCI Group where she is responsible for strategically growing global associations especially through developing new products and revenue channels. Having lived, studied and worked in 5 different countries, her deep cultural understanding and fluency in 4 languages (German, English, French and Spanish) equips Annemarie for international projects. Most recently she has been focusing on helping associations cultivate their education businesses across continents with an important percentage of her association portfolio consisting of international US-based organizations. 

Kevin Perry is a private consultant helping training organizations with strategic growth through refined business processes, credentialing, and  acquisition.  He recently retired as Director of SAE International’s Professional Development division, a position he held since 2001.  In this capacity, he led a staff that plans and delivers public training courses, in-company training, and a variety of multimedia/distance learning products for engineers who serve the automotive, aerospace, and commercial vehicle industries.  In 2014, Dr. Perry assumed management of Effective Training, Inc., a firm that SAE acquired, which focuses on geometric dimensioning and tolerancing training products.  Also in 2014, he established Probitas Authentication, a new SAE business that certifies aerospace auditors and training providers.  In 2015, he led an effort to acquire the aerospace auditor and training provider business from the principal competitor to Probitas and in 2018 he led the acquisition of CALISO, an online ISO-standards training company.

 For questions on the webinar, please contact Karine Desbant at [email protected]

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