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Cathey B. Wise, CAE

Cathey Wise's leadership track record speaks volumes: record-breaking growth in association membership and engagement, transformative revenue strategies, and advocacy campaigns that turn complexity into collective action. 

 

Throughout her career, Cathey has led high-performing teams, elevated organizational brands, and built collaborative partnerships with Fortune 100 companies, national coalitions, and grassroots movements.

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Cathey is known for her signature blend of candor, warmth, and tactical insight - building trust quickly, aligning teams around shared goals, and helping leaders deliver meaningful results.

 

Clients and colleagues alike say her superpower is relationship building - an intuitive ability to connect individuals, ideas, and missions in powerful, lasting ways.

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Career Highlights

Emergency Department Practice Management Association

  • Achieved the highest membership increase in EDPMA’s history: +15.65% in 2023

  • Led the largest conference attendance ever in 2023

  • Grew non-dues revenue and digital engagement significantly

  • Expanded educational offerings and simplified complex advocacy messaging

 

Emergency Medicine Residents’ Association 

  • Drove overall membership growth of 62.51%

  • Boosted member-focused events by 240%, clinical resources by 200%

  • Redesigned website, resulting in improved analytics and engagement metrics

 

Emergency Medicine Foundation 

  • Raised $1M in unrestricted revenue - a first in EMF history

  • Secured strategic partnership with the National Football League

  • Rebranded EMF and relaunched donor communications

  • Increased legacy society membership by 10%

  • Introduced the innovative EMF Donor Lounge

 

Mothers Against Drunk Driving

  • Supported or generated a $40M budget

  • Grew corporate revenue from under $500K to $4.6M in 7 years

  • Raised $32M with launch of a national walk initiative

  • Created and branded 10 evidence-based programs

  • Built strategic alliances with brands like Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, GM, Toyota, Allstate

  • Piloted innovative program delivery strategies and secured funding

  • Advanced diversity initiatives across program areas


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