Staff

Flora A. Schmidt, Executive Director
Flora A. Schmidt serves as the Executive Director for the Iowa Behavioral Health Association. Flora’s primary role is to provide strategic leadership and operational management to the organization consistent with its mission and vision as well as providing leadership to the membership. Flora is a career long member of the Iowa Society of Association Executives and brings 25+ years of senior leadership in association management to the organization having previously served as the Iowa State Director Concerned Veterans for America; Executive Officer Home Builders Association of Iowa; and as Executive Director for Iowa Plastics Industry Consortium, Manchester Area Chamber of Commerce and Bellevue Area Chamber of Commerce. Flora is a member of the IWLC ~ Iowa Women Lead Change Founder’s Circle, past State Co-Chair for scholarships and served on the Central & Eastern Iowa steering committees. She is an avid reader and delivers books for the WDM Library homebound program. An Iowa native, Flora grew up on the family farm outside Bellevue, Iowa and holds a B.A. from Iowa State University and the Institutes for Organizational Management (IOM) certification from the US Chamber of Commerce Foundation.