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Karyn Nishimura Sneath is the CEO of Npower and guides several partnered facilitators, strategists, consultants, and speakers with her consulting company. Over the past nine years she has custom designed 427 training programs to meet the needs of various association and higher education constituencies. Nishimura Sneath has also designed and implemented long-term strategic planning initiatives with various institutions and associations. To date she has partnered with 122 associations and corporations, 73 inter/national fraternal, social, and professional organizations and conferences, and 85 colleges and universities.
Prior to her leadership development consultancy work she worked as a senior staff member for two Indianapolis-based national associations. She also spent six years and as a student life and services staff member at Wichita State University and Western Illinois University.
Currently she volunteers as a board member for the Association of Fraternity Advisors Foundation. She is on the conference committee for the Association of Fraternity Advisors Annual Meeting and currently serves as the 2005 Master Teacher Manager. She has been a member of the Association since 1986.
She is a member of the Central Indiana chapter of the American Society of Training & Development.
Karyn has completed her term as a board member of the Kiwanis Club of College Park as Immediate Past-President, President, Recruitment Chairman, and Advisor College Park Elementary School K-Kids Club (service club for 4th and 5th graders).
She has held leadership positions with associations including: Indiana Society of Association Executives (Executive Committee, Board of Directors, Education Committee Co-Chair, UnConvention Committee Program Co-Chair); Association of Fraternity Advisors (Mid-American Vice President); National Association for Campus Activities (National Student Government Conference facilitator and national conference committee); and the Western Illinois University Alumni Council.
In 2003 she was awarded the Jack L. Anson Award for contributions as a non-higher education contributor to the national fraternity/sorority movement by the Association of Fraternity Advisors - the highest honor for a non-higher education professional.
In December of 2004 she was recognized by her alma mater as one of Western Illinois University's Alumni Achievement Award recipients. Alumni Achievement Award recipients are recognized for exceptional accomplishments in professional and vocational endeavors, for service to the community and for prominent representation of WIU.
In 2004 she was honored by Alpha Kappa Psi Business Fraternity as an honor/alumnus initiate for contributions to the business community.