The 17th annual Mid-Winter Conference
will be in San Diego, CA February 6-8, 2009. Please join us. Details to Follow.
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in generations to come.
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Welcome to the Society of Consulting Psychology! I am honored to serve as
President for this current year and look forward to your support of the Society.
As many of you know we really do function as an Office of the President because
the current President, Past-President, and President-Elect work in concert to
guide the organization. While this particular welcome is offered by me, you may
see other communications from Steve Kincaid, President-Elect and Stewart Cooper,
Past-President. I became involved with SCP in 2000 when I was encouraged to
make a presentation at the upcoming Mid-Winter Conference. I have been hooked
ever since. It does not seem like a long time ago, but the Society has certainly
grown since then. Even more importantly it has maintained the feel of an easily
accessible community. Though we are arguably no longer the “best kept secret”,
we have and hope to sustain a sense of community that allows relative newcomers
and long standing supporters to feel valued as members and contributors. Our
challenge is to do this even as we grow.
I am blessed, honored, privileged and excited to serve as President this
year. I have already benefited from the line of Presidents who preceded me. I am
equally inspired and humbled by the responsibility of passing the gavel on to
the line of Presidents and other leaders who will follow. I am particularly
grateful for having the opportunity to learn from Stewart Cooper as I sat in the
President-Elect chair and offered suggestions. I am also excited and comforted
knowing that Steve Kincaid now sits in that chair offering thoughtful
suggestions as I take on more responsibilities for making decisions. We are
working purposefully to reaffirm our overall mission, to assure that we have a
clear longer term strategy for our success, to focus on short term objectives
that meet the needs of our members, the psychology community and the broader
organization community. We are committed to making sound decisions that will
sustain us over time. Can we expect anything less of ourselves than the
excellence we strive to facilitate in our clients? Read More
As a candidate for this role, I proposed a focus on planning for our future
by building on our past, increasing collaboration with colleagues and clients,
and continuing to build our community. Those remain our focus for this year. At
the Executive Retreat in September, we began a process to reaffirm our mission
and to assure that we have the most effective structure, processes and programs
in place to assure that we are successful.
We are still one of the few APA divisions that have increased their
membership. We do not take that growth for granted and know we have to be clear
about what we offer and intentional about attracting and retaining current
members, prospective members and diverse members. We also know that we must
continue to develop and manage the financial resources needed to support our
success. We are not only financially sound, but also enjoy a healthy reserve!
If you are already familiar with SCP, you will not see many changes to what
we have offered and accomplished over the past few years. Hopefully, more of you
will know more about what we are doing because we will do a better job of
communicating it. You should also expect a noticeable raise in quality in the
things you have already enjoyed as high quality. The Consulting Psychologist
Newsletter will be even better. The Distance Learning offerings will be even
better. The Consulting Psychology Journal will be even better. The Mid-Winter
Conference will be even better. Trust me however that nothing we do will be as
excellent as if can be without your input and support. Grow with us. We will
grow with you.
Greg Pennington, Ph.D.
President
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SCP President - Greg Pennington, Ph.D |