Building Trust is Key or Nothing Gets Done

Patience. Building and maintaining trust with your constituents. Dedication to something much bigger than yourself.

These are the keys to a successful career in health policy, and they serve as a microcosm for excelling in any career where you are serving a mission and members. Join us this week on the 6 Degrees of Associations Podcast with our guest, Alex Bardakh, MPP, CAE, from AMDA - The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, to learn more!

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About
As established here on the 6 Degrees of Associations Podcast, really good things tend to happen when you “stick to the mission.”

Associations gain an advantage in inspiring both constituents and the workforce when their mission elicits passion and purpose. When an association's reason for existence is to save lives, it heightens the stakes and stress for everyone, including the staff.

In this week's edition of the 6 Degrees of Associations Podcast, we are joined by Alex Bardakh, MPP, CAE, the Senior Director at AMDA – Society for PALTC Medicine. Alex is a health policy and advocacy leader with an exceptional career that includes financial stewardship, strategic planning, media engagement, and event management.

As discussed in today's episode, patience is crucial in Alex’s realm of health policy and government affairs. It takes months, years, and even decades to make an impact on legislative issues that can literally change and save lives on a large scale.

"It can break at any moment, and you just never know when it will happen," he said.

Building trust with your members and never overstepping despite your ambitions have also been key to Alex’s career. At the end of the day, you are serving others, and this is 'their house,' as he told us.

About This Podcast
Welcome to the 6 Degrees of Associations Podcast: Presented by Core Adventures.

Six Degrees of Associations, presented by Core Adventures, is a weekly podcast dedicated to real-world professional development knowledge for individuals working within all facets of associations. Folks wear many hats in an association, and our podcast keeps up with the shifting demands of today’s nonprofit workforce by interviewing today’s most influential people in the association universe, including consultants, to uncover what’s working, what’s not, and how the future will shape out. If you are an 'association lifer' like we are, make Six Degrees of Associations part of your Wednesday morning routine.