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Smart Moves: Access Appoints Three Female Co-CEOs

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She has a particular knack for company values, seeing them as a way to center and support Access as an organization from within, and providing employees with individual and team growth and prosperity. In 2009, she opened Workshop, a Colorado DMC. In this role, she developed a passion for event design, art direction and marketing.

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Smart Moves in New York, Panama City Beach and More

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He joined the organization in 2015, and since then, has worked as sports marketing and special events coordinator, and operations manager. He has been with the organization for a total of 10 years, joining as program manager for IAAPA Europe in 2009. Patrick Stewart. Jakob Wahl.

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A calendar of peer conferences

Conferences that Work

Since 2009 I’ve maintained an informal calendar of peer conferences (aka unconferences) on this site. Why I do this work The incredible diversity of communities, organizations, and businesses that use participant-driven and participation-rich event formats is astounding. Even so, the calendar lists hundreds of events.

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Smart Moves in Florida, Wyoming and More

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He began working with The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company in 2009 at The Ritz-Carlton Golf and Spa Resort in Rose Hall, Jamaica as travel sales industry coordinator. She also worked as sales specialist for Marriott’s Florida’s sales organization. Petersburg Resort & Golf Club in Florida.

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Why is DEI Critical to the Hospitality Industry?

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A Toolkit for Action While DEI initiatives remain a struggle for some destinations, it is the hope of ESPA that the toolkit will be an asset for professional organizations in motivating staff to learn how DEI impacts the hospitality industry with the three pillars: education, inclusive marketing and supplier diversity.

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Becoming a writer

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Because… • I suffered through a long period when writing a book seemed to be something I would never be able to do; and • So many well-known writers imply that all you need to do is figure out how to organize your writing routine, whereupon turning out hundreds of words a day becomes no big deal. This is not true for 99.99% of mortals.

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Humanity’s problem is a meeting problem

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In 2009, the biologist E.O. 9 September 2009. 9 September 2009. And the organizations we’ve constructed incarnate our culture. Wilson described what he saw as humanity’s real problem. ” — E. Wilson , debate at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., And so it goes with meetings.

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