The Council on Interdisciplinary Advancement: Shaping Tomorrow's Global Leadership.
Membership
Membership of The Council on Interdisciplinary Advancement (TCOIA) consists of a professionally-diverse body of individuals who have demonstrated sustained excellence in their career paths, typically holding director-level or higher ranking.
Individual members include many promising and emerging leaders in the professional world who come together to collaborate on and converse about the most prominent challenges, policies, and governance issues faced across multiple industries in the present day.
Overview and Benefits
TCOIA members enjoy unparalleled access to a a cross-industry forum through which they engage with and gain insight from experts and leaders across multiple sectors and industries. Members have in-person and virtual access to executives, leaders, government officials, and prominent scholars in academia, business, and policy, many of whom are members, themselves. TCOIA is dedicated to facilitating an intellectual exchange of ideas, networking, and facilitation of career progress through mentoring programs, expert panel discussions, symposia, town halls, live-streams, and executive leader forums exclusively for members. Through access to TCOIA’s knowledge base, think tank, publications, briefing materials, and special content on TCOIA.org and the Member-only site, members benefit from an expansive collection of unparalleled resources, opportunities, and intellectual capital.
Lifetime Membership
The Council on Interdisciplinary Advancement seeks promise, quality, balance, and diversity in its membership. Criteria for Lifetime membership include professional expertise and intellectual achievement. The degree of interest, professional accomplishment and potential, and current involvement in interdisciplinary cooperation as well as the promise of future achievements in the service interdisciplinary advancement and standing among professional peers are all instrumental in consideration of Lifetime Members.
Term Membership
The Term Membership Program was established to cultivate the next generation of professional leaders by mentoring and encouraging young professionals from diverse backgrounds to engage in sustained discussions and activities on professional affairs and policies. Each year, a new class of term members between the ages of twenty-seven and thirty-two is elected for a fixed five-year membership term.