Susan Waters Bio

In addition to her responsibilities at InternetBar.org, Dr. Waters is Principal of Sextant Consulting, a firm that offers strategic planning and focus to associations and other organizations as well as consulting related to governance, organizational alignment and assessment, board-staff roles and responsibilities and meeting facilitation.

Dr. Waters was Chief Executive Officer of the California Society of Certified Public Accountants (2000 to 2004); Executive Director of the Massachusetts Bar Association (1993 to 2000); Executive Director of the San Francisco Medical Society (1980 to 1993); and Executive Director of the Prince George’s County (Maryland) Medical Society (1974 to 1980).

She served as President of the San Francisco Bay Area Society of Association Executives (1991-1992) and was the first woman to serve as President of the American Association of Medical Society Executives (1988-1989). She presently serves on the San Francisco President’s Advisory Committee to Dr. C. D. Mote, Jr., President of the University of Maryland.

Dr. Waters has been an American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) Fellow since 1989 and has served as Chair of its Public Policy Committee and its Amicus Curiae Committee. She served on ASAE’s Board of Directors (1992 to 1998), serving as an officer from 1996 to 1998. She is currently a member of the Key Professional Associations Committee and is a member of the Center for Association Leadership Board of Directors as well as its Research Committee.

She was designated one of Ten Outstanding Young San Franciscans by the Jaycees and was named Association Executive of the Year by the Northern California Society of Association Executives in 1993 and received their Lifetime Achievement Award in 2002.

Dr. Waters received her B.A. (University of Maryland, 1973); her MBA. in Organizational Development (University of San Francisco, 1992); and her Executive Doctor of Management (Weatherhead School of Management of Case Western Reserve University, 2005).