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one. Well, she’s not at home anymore and that’s how I know We also need to learn though that in some parts of the world about the communication. the American presence is not always as welcome as much as we So here are some stats. Dad has about 2,300 Outlook might like. And we need to be really sensitive to this. I believe contacts. Daughter has 496. But my daughter doesn’t send that we can still build those partnerships and continue to meet emails. Most of those 496 contacts she admitted to me are the needs of our members that want sections and chapters in the phone numbers from her phone. They’re not real contacts other parts of the world. But we also need to assure them that exactly, but they’re contacts. we will work very closely with the organizations that represent Facebook friends. I’ve got 83. Daughter has 1,339. And text our profession within their countries. messages are not even close. I’ve got a thundering 212, and There are some places where we can only have partnership my daughter is approaching 8,000. arrangements through clubs and things of that nature. An So what does this tell us? Well, it tells us that they have a example is CIBSE (Chartered Institute of Building Services different way they choose to communicate. Now we’ve got a Engineers) in the UK, a marvelous partner. couple of choices here. We could try to change a generation, Several CIBSE members are here today and they have or we could try to change the way we interact with that worked very closely with us on the development of Building generation. It seems to me like the second way is going to be eQ, the ASHRAE building labeling system, and also on a whole lot easier. research activities. And we’ve had some discussions about So I asked some of our further collaboration. I’m looking younger members to help me forward to see more of this in the with this presentation because I future. I think we need to put figured I’d be nervous and I don’t some of these things in place to do this very often, speaking from demonstrate that we are serious the stage. One of those members about these collaborations. is in the room right now, so when And finally to demonstrate our I asked who will lead in this area global leadership, I think we need I got the following answer: to convene a global energy summit Megan Tosh, P.E., a YEA that brings together the leaders of member from the Central major organizations that represent Florida Chapter, appears on a our profession worldwide. At this video screen in background. summit, we would lay out the Ron, I will help you lead by critical issues, come up with some becoming a leader myself. I Megan Tosh, P.E., Member ASHRAE, promises to help solutions, figure out what each joined ASHRAE as a student develop new young leaders within ASHRAE in a brief video of us is going to do and tackle member and quickly saw all of shown during the presidential address. problems as a team. the opportunities for growth Can you imagine how much and leadership roles within this organization. As I have taken we could leverage the power of ASHRAE? And ASHRAE on these roles I’ve had the opportunity to work with new would be seen as the primary leader that brought this group young members and to help them develop into leaders. As we together. continue to move forward, I commit to helping develop new I’ve already talked to the Conference and Exhibitions young leaders within ASHRAE to carry forward her mission Committee about this, and they’re pretty excited about this. towards a sustainable world. And I have a letter on my desk from a major international Thank you, Megan. By the way, she’s in the house today. manufacturer that has agreed to host us. Oh by the way, these You need to meet her. (Applause) meetings have to be held in another country. So if we want to The second pillar that I want to talk to you about today is do this, we’re halfway there. (Applause) building our global presence. We’re a global organization, an I figured I’d run out of steam about now, so I asked another international organization, and I think we need to start doing member if they would help me lead. some things to help realize that. Edward Tsui, an ASHRAE member from the Hong Kong One clear need is to better support our international members. Chapter, appears on a video screen in the background. We have a strategic plan that talks about this, and we haven’t Ron, I can help you by recommending ASHRAE to other probably moved on that as much as we need to. And the more parts of the world. We have leadership in the international you travel internationally, the more you see the marvelous chapters organizing seminars, promoting ASHRAE standards excited and engaged members out there the more work you see and sharing our experiences with each other. Our work will that we need to do. If you haven’t had the chance to do that, definitely will help make a better tomorrow. you simply just need to go and find some of these members, Thank you, Edward. (Applause) Here’s a clue for all you because it just will blow you away. I mean, they just love this upcoming presidents, get the members to do part of your organization, and we need to do a better job of supporting them. theme speech, it makes it a lot easier, okay? (Laughter)
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