About the Sacramento LDS Business Association

Our organization provides an excellent way to support and enhance the career development of LDS business people, BYU alumni, and friends. Through the network of professional contacts, discussions, meetings, and directories, our Association helps its members help each other. It also provides an opportunity for association on a professional level with people who share your values. We invite men and women regardless of university or religious affiliation.

The LDS Business Association was formed approximately 30 years ago, here in Sacramento. Although we are an independent organization, we are also the Sacramento Chapter of the BYU Management Society, which operates under the BYU Marriott School of Management. We are informally associated with the Sacramento Chapter of the BYU Alumni Association. We invite you to visit our web site at www.ldssacbusiness.com. The site has our mission statement, luncheon speaker information, membership listings and special event notification.

Our Association’s primary objectives are to bring the LDS business community and friends in the Sacramento metropolitan area the following:

1. Each month we have a luncheon and speaker where we feature presentations by business and civic leaders, sports figures, BYU instructors and personnel, LDS Church leaders, and elected officials, regarding timely topics of interest. Our monthly meetings are held as follows:

Date: Usually the 2nd Tuesday of each month (Please check the Events page)
Time: 12:00 Noon to 1:00 p.m.
Place: Zigato's 1910 Canterbury Road, Sacramento (off of Hwy 160 next to Canterbury Inn)
http://www.zigatos.net/

2. In conjunction with the local BYU Alumni Association, each year we bring BYU’s nationally recognized LDS entertainment groups to Sacramento. These are excellent missionary opportunities. The groups include the BYU Young Ambassadors, Living Legends, International Folk Dancers, and the Ballroom Dancers.
   
3. Each Fall, we present an annual Business Seminar which features speakers from BYU’s Marriott School of Management.
   
4. In conjunction with the local BYU Alumni Association, we have established an annual BYU scholarship fund for selected deserving LDS students from the Sacramento area. Contributions to the scholarship fund are welcome.

The annual dues are only $30. The dues help to cover Association expenses including the cost of our monthly notices and expenses for our occasional out-of-town speakers. Your paid membership entitles you to receive written notification of our luncheons and other events, access to our membership directory, and a subscription to the Latter-day Messenger, a publication serving Northern California Latter-day Saints and friends. You will also receive advance notice and ticket information regarding upcoming events such as BYU performing groups and special Fireside speakers.

If you aren’t a member of our Association, we encourage you to click on this link and fill out our membership form.

Our Mission

The Management Society was introduced in 1977 as an organization of individuals drawn from a wide variety of businesses and professions. Management Society chapters were to include both seasoned, mature leaders and younger professionals who were building their careers. This is still the paramount interest of the Management Society.

The express purposes of the Management Society are:

1. To further and enhance the career development of its members,
2. To provide members the opportunity of networking with other local and international members,
3. To make available the skills and talents of the members and be of support and service to Brigham Young University and especially the Marriott School of Management (MSM), and
4. To be of service to the community in which the chapter is organized.

The following paragraphs restate these four purposes in terms of benefits to Management Society chapter members.

1. Enhancing your career -- securing professional advancement. Today's most significant challenge for managers and executives is keeping pace with the startling tempo of change. Successful professionals must take responsibility for self-development of their own careers. Constant and rapid updating, continual learning,and relearning are essential. Management Society chapters, composed of both emerging and established executives, are as one chapter president said," The update Institute of Tomorrow!" Professional advancement of its members is the primary ambition of the BYU Management Society. All other benefits are related to and supportive of that primary benefit. So whatever else the Management Society is, it is , first of all, a resource for you - - for your professional advancement.
   
2. Creating relationships so that you can be of service to Society members and so they can be of service to you. Friends an alumni of the MSM should have a vehicle to support and to enhance the career development of each other. The Management Society, with its international scope and approximately 50 local chapters, is that vehicle. Through the network of professional contacts, discussions, meetings, directories, and electronic job bulletin boards, the Management Society helps its members help each other.
   
3. Building BYU and the Marriott School of Management In its continuing quest for educational excellence, the MSM relies heavily upon its friends and alumni. Management Society members are providing significant assistance to the School through the following services and activities:
• Speaking to classes and student groups
• Arranging for student internships
• Recruiting and hiring students
• Participating in the Mentor Program
• Collecting data and helping describe contemporary circumstances for up-to-date case studies
• Serving as advisors for student projects
• Participating with faculty in research projects
• Creating an environment supportive of fundraising projects of the MSM
• Sponsoring scholarships
  
4. Helping build your community through meaningful service Management Society chapters have a great deal of independence. This autonomy enables the chapter to match talents and interests of chapter members with community needs. The intensity, duration, and all other dimensions of community service are determined by the local chapter. Community service activities of the chapters cover a wide range.