Endless Events

MAY 13, 2022

It is teeming with various career opportunities. Being an event planner, event manager, or event marketer is a difficult job that demands a lot of energy and knowledge, but many of us are drawn to it because it is – above all else – rewarding. But how does one prepare for a career in event planning?

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Conferences that Work

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

But recently, she realized that she had incorporated these unhealthy dynamics into her relationship with her career. Namely: we need to look not only at our family relationships but also our relationships with our career. My relationship with my career Each person’s past experiences and situations are unique.

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ADMEI

MARCH 19, 2024

In Denise’s words, “This is not just my presidency; it belongs to all of us as a global association made up of the most rockstar, magic-making professionals on the planet. Together, we are ADMEI!” As ADMEI welcomes Denise, it expresses appreciation and gratitude for its outgoing leaders of the ADMEI Board of Directors.

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ADMEI

MARCH 20, 2024

ADMEI’s Campus to Career initiative provides you with even more robust connections and resources to source talent. With over 20 categories, ADMEI's extensive awards program celebrates the achievements of these individuals and companies across various career stages within the DMC industry. Source talent. Mentorship opportunities.

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 19, 2024

She learned of the CMP early on in her career in the meetings and events industry. Seeing the faces of attendees coming down from sessions upstairs, entering the experiential floor and engaging with all the elements was a highlight of my career, and a true testament to the incredible work of both my team and our partners,” says Carvalho.

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Smart Meetings

MAY 3, 2022

Whether you’re thinking about leaving your company or you shifted career paths, the pandemic forced us to take risks, Peckinpaugh explained. The pandemic set a new precedent for us, and that’s part of what has made it so pivotal. Yet, making a big move now is a big risk. First, Peckinpaugh suggested you do the math.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 1, 2023

Encore, the world’s largest event solutions provider, has just launched Women in Audio Visual Technology (WAVE), a program focused on generating career opportunities for women in the event production industry. It’s what drives innovation, collaboration and growth, not only for businesses but for each of us as individuals.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

IHG Hotels & Resorts has teamed up with Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Morehouse College (MC) and Clark Atlanta University (CAU) for a mutually beneficial collaboration through their early career recruitment program. And that is what is quite attractive to us,” says Cooper.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 22, 2022

about nurturing the next generation. . The two-year hiatus from events stretched us—we learned how to use virtual tools and that working from anywhere is possible. Not to mention, there’s a sentiment of rustiness that can follow us back into big events. career #thegreatresignation pic.twitter.com/9Dy1nku7v0.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 29, 2022

Help us welcome our newest team member, Whitney! Whitney started her career in sales at Verizon Wireless. Upon earning a degree in Business Administration, Whitney learned a lot about marketing and other aspects of business. “I feel that I’ve had to use what I learned from my studies in every job I’ve had.”

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 1, 2022

I did a talk at MPIs WEC last year about building your career as an event professional. People spend their entire careers in these fields, and event professionals are expected to dabble in all of them well. Deanna likes that distinction and raises another interesting point about how a company can impact the roles’ description.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 1, 2022

Kate Patay, Smart Meetings Smart Style Ambassador and the woman behind the eponymous Patay Consulting for the last five years, recently announced that she is taking a role as director of engagement with Terramar US , a DMC Network Company. Talk about the decision to go back to working for a company.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

However, organizations with the goal of developing future industry professionals are gaining momentum to advance students pursuing careers in hospitality with specialized programs and generous funding. Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are Driving Career Development. A Slow Recovery.

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 18, 2023

He began his 20-year career in hospitality as a front desk agent at the Doubletree Irvine Spectrum, and now brings his extensive experience to manage the 225-room property. She served as Vice President for MPI’s Aloha Chapter in 2019 and is passionate about creating extraordinary guest experiences.

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 12, 2024

Read below, and watch her short video, to learn about her first career choice and why people like to open up to her. Thanks Michelle for letting us get to know you! What do you like about your job? What’s something you want to share about the people you work with at Motivation Excellence?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Workplace culture can sometimes lead us to believe that these harmful states are simply the price we pay for a lucrative or successful work life. Would you believe it possible to have career success and a peaceful state of mind? For many of us, however, burnout surged amid the conditions surrounding the Covid crisis.

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Endless Events

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Event professionals can start their career paths in almost any job or industry. In this episode of the Event Brew podcast , Deanna Nwosu, Will Curran, Nick Borelli, and Arianna Black share their career journeys, the event jobs they’ve held, and advice they wish they’d known when first starting their careers.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

We talked about the idea that so often when it comes to events, we’re always trying to grow. When I think about goals and objectives, and you achieved them, do those need to change?” In Deanna’s eyes, this may even be a question of personal growth concerning career advancement. You don’t have to grow or die,” he says. “If

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Motivation Excellence

JULY 17, 2023

As an award-winning TV journalist, she was last an anchor and reporter in Chicago before segueing to a career in professional presentation coaching. For many of us, it’s due to past experiences that didn’t end well. Pender says making it about what the audience needs, rather than your own fears, can also help.

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Profiles on five woman chefs of color leading the culinary industry Chef Alice Seo, DM of Wolfgang Puck Catering in Seattle, was one of five incredible woman chefs of color in a leadership position who spoke to Smart Meetings about their careers. It’s not only about the food. It’s about the whole experience.”

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

They review some of the biggest summer 2021 events, Nick and Will talk a little bit about the news surrounding virtual event platforms, and Dustin speaks his mind about labor shortages in the events industry (and nearly starts a revolution!). Nick visited Chicago in the summer about the same time Lollapalooza was in full swing.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

She joins Sarah to talk about her vast experience in the events industry, what the future holds for event organizers, and the importance of community engagement. First off, Deanna talks about how she ended up in the events industry and the experience she gained along the way. ” It’s also about bouncing back from setbacks.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JANUARY 10, 2023

Becca has been with us since 2021 covering the Virginia and West Virginia regions. Becca grew up attending tourism conferences and events with her mom where she got the bug to continue to craft her career in the industry. Her favorite thing about working in tourism digital marketing?

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

How “Intermissions” could launch brilliant second halves of event careers When you have reached the heights of the hospitality ladder like MGM Resorts International Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer Stephanie Glanzer, where do you go? Don’t be concerned about what others think about you.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

OCTOBER 6, 2021

We couldn’t be more excited about our new representative for Virginia and West Virginia: Becca Meyers! Becca loves the outdoors and is passionate about running, all kinds of fitness, hiking, reading, canoeing, the beach, cooking, great wine and travel! Becca has worked in travel & tourism for over two decades.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Richmond Region Tourism Vice President of Visitor Experience Matt Robinette, CMP, believes the industry certification is about growing the industry. This is codifying best practices through robust continuing education programs, which will result in better service to clients, unambiguous internal metrics and career growth,” he said. “In

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MeetingsNet

APRIL 12, 2024

In addition, MPI conducts a 12-hour online-education marathon featuring three 15-minute sessions per hour; these cover a wide range of job issues for planners as well as career advancement and physical and mental wellness. Here’s a sampling of the useful content that was presented.

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Motivation Excellence

APRIL 24, 2023

Some of us have only known him a short time, but it’s been clear that he has immense character and positivity. I started working in the travel/hospitality industry in 1980, learning more about incentive travel starting in 1984. What are some accomplishments and positions you’ve held throughout your career?

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As always, their thoughtful responses left us inspired. I am forever thankful for an industry that has given me amazing friends and colleagues and endless opportunities to travel, experience new cultures, meet people worldwide, and do things most people dream about. Well, not really but I don’t complain about them anymore.

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Endless Events

MARCH 2, 2023

Don’t Let Networking Scare You Deanna starts today’s conversation with some advice for event professionals about networking. If you want to broaden your career options, I suggest you start networking. If you want to broaden your career options, I suggest you start networking. That’s not what it’s about. Arianna agrees.

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Smart Meetings

JUNE 2, 2022

Editor’s Note : Smart Meetings reached out to San Diego State University alumnus Anthony Bollotta to discuss the benefits of furthering your career via education. . I earned it at Syracuse University, where I also discovered a lot about the cadences, components, and logistics of theatre. You see…it’s never too late!” —a

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 13, 2023

“We have an opportunity…We need to tell our story about how we make advances.” Read More: ASAE Annual 23 Focused on Purpose Disruption = Opportunity Covid-19 may have been a disruptor for meeting planners, but ASAE decided to use those disruptions to reimagine the way meetings could be done. “It AI does not have wisdom.

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Smart Meetings debriefed with Tahira Endean, head of program with IMEX Group, about what worked and what will be changed for next year. The day Endean started, she already had a couple of hundred submissions and about 100 speaking spaces to fill. Those are big topics that will help us move forward,” she said. million sq.

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Endless Events

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

What impact could these competencies have on your career and the planned events? If you want to align your career to be more about internal events, company culture, and employer brand, then that’s a way to specialize and not just be a generalist at events. How do they help us recruit more people to work at the company?

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Motivation Excellence

MARCH 20, 2024

In this blog, we will be highlighting some recent wins by women as well as shine a light on some women from the past you may not have heard about before. The latter is by design too. It’s estimated both singers have contributed $10 billion dollars to the US economy in 2023! Both of which were previously held by men.

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Endless Events

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Today, she’ll talk about what community is, how to build it, and how to monetize it. I spent the first 20 years of my career as a global strategist. Will is curious about what the future looks like for building event communities. It’s not about thinking about engagement and interaction as silos anymore.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Reputation + Brand = Past, Present & Future Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and billionaire, is credited with saying, “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” I’d say the vast majority of us would like those words to be kind and positive. This could be in your career or personal life, or both.

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