The Commercial Painting Industry Association is pleased to announce that in continuing to build a valuable community around the business of commercial painting, it will be forming two committees and a forum.
While still in its infancy, word about the Association is spreading through the industry. In just two years the first and only professional trade association for commercial painting contractors has grown to nearly 100 company members spanning six countries.
At the core of the organization, Co-Founders Aaron Moore and Steve Hester—backed by a collective of sponsors ranging from major industry players to fast-track startups—believe that meaningful connections and amazing experiences between industry leaders elevates everyone involved in the commercial painting industry. It is one of the big reasons why the Association has already seen so much success.
Through opportunities where business leaders and their leadership teams can learn, share and grow through peer-to-peer interaction nutures the idea of growing the Association as well as the entire industry. While the Association provides these opportunities through its peer groups and annual conferences, it has recently decided to take things one step further with the creation of new committees and a forum.
One of the committees being created for the Association is the Membership Committee. Chaired by long-time CPIA Executive Member Tim Kenney of W.T. Kenney (Boston, Massachusetts), the Committee aims to take on responsibility for the discovery and recruitment of complementary new CPIA commercial contractor members for 2023. Through this new committee, the Association plans to maintain its meteoric growth in new member companies.
The second committee being created within the Assocation is focused on education. Chaired by CPIA Executive Member Elizabeth Perez-Lavin, President of Service Contracting Solutions (Fort Myers, Florida), the Education Committee will report to Editor-in-Chief of Commercial Painting, Destiny Johnson, on current trends, challenges and opportunities relating to a commercial painting contractor.
From this collection of feedback and ideas, the committee will assist in the development of content best suited to serve Association members. This includes high-level topics to be covered in both Commercial Painting and Commercial Painting Monthly, in addition to webinars and future CPIA VAULT calls—which will formally make their debut next year. The Education Committee will also take part in selecting topics, speakers, and agenda items for the CPIA Leadership Conference and other future in-person events.
Because the Association is one of inclusion and information sharing, CPIA officials have also decided to create a Women In Painting Forum. Comprised of CPIA contractor members and industry partners, the forum intends to become an ongoing channel for women in commercial painting to regularly meet and discuss new ideas, challenges and successes they’ve experienced as a result of their executive positions.
While details regarding the forum are still being worked through, the CPIA is planning to make a more formal announcement about Women In Painting in the coming weeks.
Those interested in participating in either of the committees or forum are asked to reach out to the CPIA Executive Director, Mike Stanley (mstanley@thecpia.com).
