Mickie Rops Consulting

The National Certification Board for Diabetes Educators routinely solicits applications for its vacant spots on the certification board of directors.  A nominating committee then presents a slate to the board for vote.  Too many certification boards just let the current association president (assuming the certifying agency is part of the association) or the incoming certification board chair select the next year's board - an invitation to disaster (or at least homogeneous thinking), in my opinion.  An even better process - albeit sometimes not realistic for small programs - is to have an election by the certificant population.