Association COO/CFO Rob Di Bacco recently sat down with Procurify, a company that helps organizations align spending with their business objectives, to discuss how he manages financial operations for the Association, ways to scale spend management sustainably and tips for how educational institutions should implement a purchasing process.

Di Bacco covers these topics and other lessons learned from a long career that’s spanned from the corporate world, where he worked as a bond underwriter for the Travelers Group, to Chile and Argentina, where led and founded The Gaia School, and finally to Arizona, where he’s handled the Association’s finance and operations for eight years.

Di Bacco also discusses his personal philosophy, describing his attitude towards life as not being afraid of failure “because I think that failure is part of the growth process.”

You can listen to the podcast here.