Leadership. Action. Advocacy.

These volunteers work on engagement within the membership as it relates to task forces and event attendance.  The onboard new members to guide them through their first 6 months of membership.  The task forces helps determine and implement recruitment and engage opportunities for new members.  They also help collect membership dues after the first of the year.

Chairs: Steve Furlong, Bridgette Kent

This groups determines breakfast meeting topics and vets, recruits and selects the speakers and topics. The volunteers serve as liaisons between staff and presenters to assure successful event promotion and attendance. This group also looks for new and unique venues from around the Twin Cities.

Chairs: Brian Call, Paul Schuster

This group plans the annual golf event a fun outing with a charitable component. These volunteers determine and sell sponsorships, create and promote social media messages, provide support to the golf chair and they provide day of support for the event.

Chair: Jim Ryder

This task force organizes the communication strategy for the entire association.  They help create and maintain relevant communications to membership and they promote the MMA to both members and non-members. This group is working on new forms of communication for members such as newsletters, push notifications and video blogs. These volunteers write content for blogs, publish social media postings and update and create content for the website and emails.

Chairs: Bridgette Kent, Erika Kuhlmeyer Dragich

This group stays current on local and national government affairs that affect membership.  At the direction of the board, the task forces works on behalf of the membership’s interests within the state capitol to promote or oppose legislation impacting the association’s members. These volunteers also inform the membership all government affairs issues and trends that affect the industry.

Chair: Bill Schwietz

This group is working to create and expand educational offerings to for the membership.  They work closely with MBA to better promote MBA offerings to MMA members.  The task forces creates new educational offerings such as webinars, educational portals, various mortgage related trainings, CE opportunities and occasional, topic specific video trainings.

Chair: Charity Malmberg, Roger Kadlec

This task force plans and executes the annual convention and awards dinner. From venue selection to speakers selection, this groups makes sure that each convention features relevant and timely industry trends to inform and inspire industry professionals.

Chair: Scott Flaherty