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Concern that a strategically driven Board will lose touch with the members and alienate the very people who are doing great things for the society. At the same time there is recognition and acceptance of the fact that we do not have and need strongly a strategic component to our governance system in order to keep up and evolve as the industry is changing. This chart represents the way these two facets of governance can work together and set the stage for the structure and philosophy that shaped the proposed changes.

Board-appointed committees (top down)

Appointed by the Board to carry out specific assignments

Executes the AIAA strategic Plan

Leverages manpower support from members in the Council structure

Member-driven committees (bottoms up)

Formed by grass-roots membership

Approved by the Board

Provides a forum for discussion of issues of common interest via meetings, communications, etc.

Perform member-driven work

Advance the arts, sciences, and technology of aeronautics and astronautics

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Nurture and promote member professionalism

Serve member needs and professional interests

Free to self-organize (Resource thresholds set by Board)

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The proposed governance model establishes a strategic, forward looking Board. A deliberative body to guide and shape the vision, strategy and initiatives. They will use disciplined process to turn ideas into implementable projects and impose accountability to measure success or failure of initiatives. Those metrics will be used to adjust the trajectory of the committees as necessary.

The Council of Directors maintains the important structure we currently have where elected representatives continue to work and guide their communities and provide input at a strategic level. The current Board does the down and in operational and tactical maintenance of the Institute well. They just don’t have the time nor capacity to also shoulder the strategic goal setting that we are missing. The Council provides the vehicle, very similar to our existing structure, for the Board to stay in touch with the membership and take its views, its inputs and its opinions into account.

The proposed Council also allows members to expand their involvement in the AIAA by simplifying the creation of new communities.

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