The Medallion Group provides award-winning management and consulting services to non-profit organizations in order to facilitate global business-to-business connections for people and companies. The Medallion Group, LLC was established in September, 2003, by key personnel of Conway Data, Inc., an association management and publications company with a long and successful history of managing professional and trade associations.

THE NEED Typically the leaders of non-profit organizations come together with great enthusiasm for their mission but with little understanding of the complexities of functioning in a non-profit environment. In order to maximize its effectiveness, non-profit leadership must be knowledgeable about unique legal issues, skillful in rallying the support of volunteers with varied interests and able to bring volunteers and staff together to create an effective team. Most non-profit organizations are extraordinary in that there are two organizational structures: first, the volunteer board and committees and second, paid employees, who work with the board and committees to implement strategy and policy. Because of its experience as both volunteer and staff leaders, The Medallion Group team understands these intricacies and is effective in optimizing the fulfillment of an organization’s mission.

EXPERIENCE The Medallion team is composed of skilled professionals with an aggregate of over 80 years of experience as association staff, chief elected officers and/or association board members. Staff members are active as volunteers in non-profit organizations and currently serve in several top leadership positions. While with Conway Data, the Medallion staff managed the World Development Federation (WDF), the International Development Research Council (IDRC), the Industrial Asset Management Council (IAMC) and the US-Cuba Trade Association (USCTA). On behalf of these organizations, the staff has managed conferences to promote infrastructure, economic and business development in France, Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Republic of Ireland, Saudi Arabia, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Philippines, Australia, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and Canada, as well as the United States. These meetings have ranged from 200 to over 3,000 attendees. In addition, the staff has provided award-winning global management services with regional offices in Brussels, Sydney and Hong Kong. In 2001, under the management of the Medallion staff, IDRC received the Gold Circle Trophy Award for International Association Management from the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE).