When the International Franchise Association (IFA) CEO position opened, its board didn’t publicly name an insider or conduct a search. But internally, they were eyeing Matt Haller, then the association’s senior vice president of government affairs and public relations, and he was named to the top spot in 2021. “I think that nobody really wanted to do a search because, you know, they’re busy,” Haller recalled. “But they obviously wanted to make sure that I was ready,” he said, and “able to step up and create a vision and work with others at the senior level of the organization.” Haller came to IFA in 2010, after working in positions at UPS, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and… Read More