CEO's message

Team effort required to promote “new-style” pro to employers, secure better benefits for profession

Just like any membership-driven group, USPTA gains a certain number of members, and also loses a predictable group of people based on various factors, including the economy, change in career, disability and retirement, just to name a few.

When people decide to drop their membership with USPTA, we encourage them to fill out a questionnaire that helps us understand their reasons for letting their affiliation lapse and allows us to tweak our benefits to meet the needs of a changing membership. ... more

President's message

New mandatory education launch

I hope this correspondence finds each of you deep into your summer programs. Many of you are aware that I have mentioned at several division conferences that USPTA has been working to establish a segment of our membership classifications that would include mandatory continuing education. That time is here and I would like to introduce a new membership classification – Accredited Professional Coach. This classification will become effective Jan. 1, 2011.

The APC fits all of our Professional level certification classifications from Professional 3 through Master Professional, and requires continuing education in order to maintain this designation. more