Senior Leaders Roundtable Discussion - 2023 Higher Education Leadership Insights

Pam Watts is the Executive Director for NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation. A former CPA, Pam joined NIRSA in 2000 and in her tenure with the Association she served primarily as NIRSA's second-in-command until assuming the Executive Directorship in early 2012. She works closely with the NIRSA Boards to actuate the strategic plan for NIRSA and its three subsidiaries and leads the staff team and operations at NIRSA.

Pam is a Certified Association Executive. She served as the Chair of the Council for Higher Education Management Association’s Steering Committee, on the Advisory Council for the Healthy Campus Initiative in the University of California System, and on the Advisory Board for the Institute for Wellbeing at Butler Universite. She is a served on the Physical Activity Alliance Board as Treasurer and then President for 10 years. She currently serves on the Higher Education Consortium for Student Affairs Certification Board and on the American Council on Exercise Board.