Concacaf Announces Executive Mentorship Program
MIAMI --- Concacaf’s ground-breaking Executive Mentorship Program (EMP) will be launched in the U.S. Virgin Islands over the weekend with hopes that the activation would impact the knowledge base of a critical subset of the game’s machinery across its 41 Member Associations.
The first edition of an all-encompassing two-year rollout will take place in St Croix on Saturday and Sunday, with highly qualified instructors from the region ready to pass vital information to improve the leadership, administrative and governance skills of Member Association Executive Committees.
“The Executive Mentorship Program will provide the Executive Committees of our 41 Concacaf Member Associations with the necessary framework to improve the administration of the game at all levels,” said Concacaf President Victor Montagliani. “Effective leadership and good governance must be our daily priority, as we make the right long-term decisions to grow football across our region.”
The EMP, which stands on a plank of the confederation’s broad-based ONE Concacaf platform and forms part of the governance evolution efforts of the Confederation, will eventually reach all 41 members by 2021.
Concacaf’s Caribbean Director of Member Associations’ Affairs, Horace Reid, underlined the importance of expanding skills and competence levels of the game’s administrators, a move which is projected to redound to the benefit of wider governance goals in the confederation.
“For decades, both at the level of FIFA and the confederations, the sharing of best practices has been primarily targeted at Presidents and General Secretaries,” said Reid. “Admittedly, these two offices are critical to the effective functionality of the Member Associations. However, there is now a need to drill deeper and provide a broader base of administrators with important tools to be effective at their primary function.”
The EMP falls within the context of the Concacaf Strategic Goal to support growth of associations and enhance development programs. Executive Committee members will receive the tools required to strategically plan and manage the development of the game in their territories.
At Concacaf, a crucial path to a stronger confederation will rest with the quality of leadership that emerges from Member Associations in the cross-cultural melting pot of the Caribbean, Central America and North America.
Speaking about the benefits of this platform for Member Associations, Concacaf’s Director of North & Central America Member Association Affairs, Mario Monterrosa stated: “The program will provide the leadership and administrative teams of our federations with tools tailored to their specific needs, as well as practices that can be applied to their daily operations. The EMP will help improve the planning and execution of administrative processes, enabling Associations to build sustainable structures that deliver growth on and off the field.”
The workshops will be conducted by trained and experienced instructors from across the Concacaf region and which include John Krishnadath, President, Suriname Football Federation; Anton Sealey, President Bahamas Football Association; Margarita Echeverria, General Secretary, Costa Rican Football Federation; David Sabir, General Secretary, Bermuda Football Association; and Jose Ernesto Mejia, General Secretary, Honduras Football Federation.