About Us

The North Dallas Chapter was chartered May 12, 1982, and serves members who live or work in the North Dallas area: Addison, Carrollton, Dallas, Farmers Branch, Garland, Plano, Richardson, Allen, or in other surrounding areas.

We represent a wide range of industries: Banking, Government, Electronics, Recruiting, Temporary Services, Finance, Health Care, Insurance, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Cosmetics, Transportation, Computers, Law Enforcement, Education, Research, and other exciting fields.

North Dallas Chapter Brochure

Our Mission, Vision, and Purpose

Our Mission is to be the acknowledged, recognized leader of office professionals in the Dallas Business area and to enhance our individual and collective value, image, competence, and influence.

Our Vision is to inspire and equip all office professionals to attain excellence.

Our Purpose is to provide education and training, and set standards of excellence recognized by the business community on a global perspective.

 

The International Association of Administrative Professionals is a not-for-profit professional association for office professionals with approximately 28,000 members and affiliates and nearly 600 chapters worldwide. Our mission is to enhance the success of career-minded administrative professionals by providing opportunities for growth through education, community building and leadership development. The association founded in 1942 as the National Secretaries Association to provide a professional network and educational resources for secretarial staff. The association's name was changed in 1998 to the International Association of Administrative Professionals to encompass the large number of varied administrative job titles and recognize the advancing role of administrative support staff in business and government.

Our core values:

• Integrity: We demonstrate this cornerstone of our profession through honesty, accountability and high ethical standards.
• Respect: We create respect within our profession and association through listening, understanding and acknowledging member feedback.
• Adaptability: We ensure the success of our association by embracing positive change and by nurturing diversity, creativity and visionary thinking.
• Communication: We cultivate and maintain excellence by remaining approachable at all levels, communicating openly and building strong relationships.
• Commitment: We are steadfast in our goals to develop learning opportunities for career-minded administrative professionals and to strengthen efficiency and effectiveness.

2011-2012 Board of Directors

 

2011-2012 Committees

If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact any of the above Board or Committee members. If you would like to take part in a committee, but do not want to do it alone, find a friend that would like to join with you. It makes it twice as fun, and twice as easy to fulfill the responsibilities. Committee chairpersons are to attend Board Meetings as required. If unable to attend, a report must be given an officer prior to the Board Meeting. REMEMBER: YOUR INPUT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO US.