Duration: 60 minutes

Program Description

Speakers:

Jim Dodson, PCAM, CPM, CCAM is the executive director of Ewa by Gentry, a 7,300 home planned community with 26 subassociations and plans for another 2,700 homes. He has over 30 years of professional management experience and was the CEO of his own management company for 22 years and has held positions as the Director of HOA Operations and Branch Manager for community association companies. He has earned the prestigious Professional Community Association Manager (PCAM), Certified Property Manager (CPM), and Certified Community Association Manager (CCAM) designations and is a lifetime member of Beta Gamma Sigma-a national business honors society. He graduated with a B.B.A. degree in real estate from the University of Hawaii – Manoa in 1976. He is an active director on the Association of Professional Community Managers (APCM), the Ewa Community Service Corporation (ECSC), and the Foundation for Community Association Research (FCAR), a member of the Large-Scale Managers Committee and is the executive director of his own foundation.

Dela LaFleur, CMCA, AMS, is the Assistant General Manager at Ewa by Gentry and the Director of Development for the Ewa Community Service Corporation. Prior to joining the Ewa by Gentry Community Association’s Hospitality Team, Ms. LaFleur was Director of the Armed Services YMCA activities at Schofield Barracks, Hawai‘i. Ms. LaFleur has 20 years of experience developing and funding programs, collecting data and reporting on outcomes, and extensive experience in grant writing.

Susan York has two masters’ degrees and a post-baccalaureate certificate in secondary education from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM). The UHM Curriculum Research & Development Group (CRDG) employs Ms. York as an educational researcher, and most recently she evaluated a US Department of Education-funded Early Reading First project, participated in the data collection process for a Center for Disease Control project, and supervises a project funded by the Superintendent of the Hawai‘i Department of Education. Ms. York specializes in qualitative data collection and analysis for focus groups, surveys, and classroom observations. Ms. York is a member of a CRDG team that works with indigenous communities to conduct culturally appropriate program research and evaluation. Ms. York has served on the board of the Ewa by Gentry Community Association (EbGCA) since 1999, and as president for thirteen years.