What is a CAE?
The Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation elevates the professional standards of executive associations that run associations.
The CAE enhances individual performance and designates association professionals who demonstrate the knowledge essential to the practice of association management. This knowledge includes rules governing associations on a state and federal level, rules and regulations dictated by the IRS, ways to improve the benchmarks of healthy associations like member numbers, revenue generated, and programs presented, and leadership and management skills necessary to achieve these goals. To obtain a CAE you must study extensively, sit for and pass with % a written exam that takes approximately three hours, and then maintain the CEU requirements on an annual basis. This is like becoming a Board Certified Entomologist.
This certification requires yearly continuing education on state and federal laws governing associations including IRS rules and regulations, association
development, management, and leadership skills.
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