Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In my career, it’s the incredible people I’ve met throughout my time in events. I practice gratitude by saying “thank you” to appreciate someone’s kindness or efforts, by trying to shift my perspective to see the positive side whenever faced with challenges and by acknowledging my own progress.

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 25, 2023

It’s time for our latest installment of our Get to Know ME feature; this time highlighting our accountant in Traverse City, Kim Kopchick! Accountant. I once read: “Being an accountant is being someone who solves a problem you didn’t know you had in a way you don’t understand”. My co-workers are amazing people!

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Smart Meetings

JANUARY 25, 2024

Then came the pivotal question that changed the course of the dialogue and my perception of workplace culture forever, “If you’re this excited today, I bet you were equally as excited to start your last job, right?” My managers never talked to me, and I never got feedback on how I was doing,” said another.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

My advice is to start with a deep understanding of the people involved and a clear picture of the outcomes you want those people to achieve. Hold yourself and others accountable. The best leaders are looking to influence increments of change over time, and they hold themselves accountable to the process and the results.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

AUGUST 29, 2022

Whitney has joined our team as a senior campaign specialist for Mississippi accounts. “I feel that I’ve had to use what I learned from my studies in every job I’ve had.” Whitney started her career in sales at Verizon Wireless. After 6 years at her last job, we are happy to welcome Whitney to the team.

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

After years of working in hotels, Aden now serves as senior account manager at Arrowhead Conferences + Events. It’s a dream come true for me, as it allows me to combine my passion for hospitality and my heart for ministry,” she says. She says, “I have used this guiding principle throughout my life. It’s truly a calling!”

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Smart Meetings

OCTOBER 3, 2023

After I completed my SEPC, I shared with our leadership that it is a very worthwhile certification for our team,” she says. Read More: Seeking Sustainable Venues Brian Strickland, Director of Sales and Account Management for Live Events at Maritz, was one of the participants in the program at Activate.

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Motivation Excellence

JANUARY 23, 2024

As a Strategic Account Director, she has daily tasks that involve multiple clients, as well as prospects. Alison: “It encourages immediate resolution and action and helps to keep my workday on track and my desk clean!” I feel a weight lifted off my shoulders when I get to cross a task off.” I love using sticky notes too.

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Endless Events

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Currently working at one of my favorite coffee shops in Tempe, Infusion Coffee & Tea. I just needed to get out of the apartment and change my scenery while writing the newsletter. I am fortunate that I work remotely, but I started to think about you – the people who read my newsletter. Wasn’t that the best?

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Smart Meetings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

It was my first practical experience in the field. The knowledge I need to maintain makes me more effective in my role and helps me deliver better results for my company.” Before even looking into the exam, Dolecki advises future applicants to set up an account in the MPI portal to keep track of their CEs.

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Advanced Travel and Tourism

JANUARY 10, 2023

Next up on our team spotlight series: Account Executive Becca Meyers. I have learned so much the past year, which was a big personal growth goal for me and I appreciate the support and opportunity to spread my wings and grow in this field and in this industry.

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Motivation Excellence

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For this blog, I decided to reach out to some of my coworkers to give tips on how they find joy, or keep a positive outlook, as often as they can. Mark Bondy, Vice President, Chief Transition Officer: “I like to get down on the floor to play with my grandkids or dog. Celebrate both!” Exercise is key for me.

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Smart Meetings

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

I was giving a lot, and my anxiety was through the roof. I was starting to realize that I wasn’t showing up as my best self. I block out time in my calendar to have a meeting with me, and what that looks like is to either go to a yoga class or go on a walk outside in nature. We give so much to others.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Attendees will interact with generative AI to ask, “What’s the best use of my time if I want to do A, B and C?” Event Data Accountability Measuring the value of events for the C-suite, the community or to explain what we do to our families, will require new key metrics. It will also be interactive. Kramer shared some highlights.

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2023

Recently featured on the SITE Global and IMEX Instagram accounts, she’s also been featured closer to home. It wasn’t my choice, but I am so glad I’m here. My family started our incentive house 70 years ago, so I was born into a family that loves travel and helping people see other cultures and explore the world. says Will. “As

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Convene by PCMA

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Corbin Ball, a leading event-technology consultant, deleted his 16-year-old Twitter account at the end of October, writing that Twitter, now X, has “gone off the rails” under owner Elon Musk’s leadership. I naturally want to share my thoughts, my passion, the way I think about [events] with the rest of the world. Multiple times.”

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Smart Meetings

AUGUST 17, 2021

We asked Mandi Graziano, vice president of global accounts for HPN Global and published author, to share a behind-the-scenes look at a recent event she planned that make a quick change. My favorite elements: Open air vibe felt safe and created conversations. Since 2010, she has been vice president of global accounts at HPN Global.

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Endless Events

OCTOBER 9, 2020

It’s October, and as an October baby, I have reached my full form! I dove headfirst into books and articles that taught me how to be a better manager and have learned a lot about myself and my team along the way. When it came time to give reviews, I thought about the things that I appreciated from each person on my team.

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Endless Events

JUNE 17, 2021

But I actually don’t manage most of my social media. But this last year, with everyone hating WhatsApp, I was able to convince a lot of my friends to switch over to Signal. Then, I deleted my Instagram app on my phone as well. I really hit my burnout when two different things started happening at once.

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Smart Meetings

DECEMBER 14, 2022

What does my post-sale journey look like? Their answer should provide a 360-degree view of what you can expect after you have contracted with the vendor; you need to know how they will handle your account from signing to the event execution. Here are the 10 questions you need to ask the event tech vendor before you get started.

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Smart Meetings

MARCH 4, 2024

I switched majors from industrial engineering to hospitality management,” Kayla Worthy , CMP, Senior Marketing Manager, Trade Shows & Events, Transitions Optical “It’s not enough to just listen to people, you need to make them feel heard.

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Smart Meetings

JULY 6, 2023

There needs to be real accountability to protect aircraft crewmembers and the traveling public. I will be filing my legislation as an amendment to the Federal Aviation Administration reauthorization legislation, which will be considered in the House in the next couple of weeks.”

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Endless Events

JANUARY 27, 2020

“The more recent history of my laptops is that I sold my MacBook Pro, and picked up a Surface Pro 5, at the time”, he continues. It barely fit inside my backpack because it is a beefy, thick, 15-inch laptop. And I’ve been really enjoying how light my backpack is when I travel these days.

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Hotel Engine

JANUARY 27, 2023

Over Madison Greene’s two and a half years with Hotel Engine, she went from being only the sixth member of the Account Management team to managing national enterprise-level accounts as well as overseeing her own team. Essentially, my day to day is managing my partnerships and relationships with my customers.

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DCI

AUGUST 28, 2023

My campus was on top of a hilly region known as Lavale Knowledge Village. This was the first time I lived independently, so I tried to learn from my experiences, and there were many to learn from. So, my friends and I would try to do as many road trips as our budgets would allow and visit these places. Still here!

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Conferences that Work

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

From my viewpoint, the platform’s popularity and usefulness reached a peak between 2014 – 2017. See the graph of my monthly website pageviews below.) Counter Social is a much better fit, as described in my post Alternatives to Twitter. Part of this is due to some of my most active followers leaving Twitter.

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Bizzaboo

MARCH 19, 2024

Our experience to this point has been great, both from a product execution perspective, but also an account management one. Their client onboarding process is the most comprehensive and well-planned that I’ve seen in my 25 years of platform selections. Events currently bring around +30% of Opportunities.

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Convene by PCMA

JANUARY 12, 2024

It’s no wonder that when you get out of school, you think: ‘My job is to have the right answers.’” I have this really clear memory of [thinking] ‘Oh, there are other levels of conversation that are running under the surface and my job is to try and get closer to the truth of the matter.’

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Convene by PCMA

AUGUST 2, 2023

My favorite part of my job is being on site during an event. Nikki Bibbero , owner and event manager, Bibbero Meetings and Events “The best part of my job is the positive impact I can leave on the event industry in the U.K. Here’s what 10 of the 20 class members had to say. Responses from the rest of the class are coming soon.

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Endless Events

JULY 15, 2021

You connect to your Apple’s Health app or Google Fit account to it and just do what you’re normally doing. I felt like they could have taken more accountability, explaining what it was. I was screenshotting things and sending them to my team. Will elaborates on the health challenge. “It’s really cool.

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Smart Meetings

APRIL 27, 2021

Caleb Sullivan , sales and marketing manager, Jackson County Tourism Development Authority : Developing my career during Covid taught me the importance of patience, flexibility, and resilience—three key lessons that will contribute to our future success. These attributes will certainly carry me through my career.

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MeetingsNet

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

A recent panel session at a meetings-industry conference highlighted the need for planners to have both a mentor and a sponsor, and to account for unconscious bias when seeking a promotion. My mentors were mostly accidental; I met them at PCMA chapter meetings.” I let my colleagues know that sometimes I would be leaving at 3 p.m.

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Convene by PCMA

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The last time Convene checked in with Kerry Crockett, MBA, CAE, CMP Fellow, DES, the CEO of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA), she was in the midst of finalizing plans for her annual event in a rapidly shifting environment. Kerry Crockett, CEO of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association. Courtesy IASA).

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Smart Meetings

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

I just recently found myself frantically digging through my bag after I’d gotten through the security checkpoint just to sigh in relief when I saw that I did, in fact, remember my prescription medication. I was well into my adulthood before I figured that one out). Pack Early. Pack Again.

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Endless Events

MARCH 23, 2020

Which is where we’re still firmly planted in the world, but we’re getting information or having some kind of sensory input layered over reality as we see it and know it” Audio Augmented Reality: A First-Hand Account. They do wrap-around the back of my head. “My ears are actually still open to the world.

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Hotel Engine

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Acting as an advocate for the industry in which she spent most of her career, Jen is passionate about making mutually beneficial connections between the hotel accounts she oversees and Hotel Engine’s business travel customers. . My favorite thing to do is get outside! I make my own soap! What do you love about your job?

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Endless Events

JUNE 29, 2022

Then, you are handed over to a sales person and account executive who will build your proposal.” One of my favorite things in the AV world used to be comparing quotes apples to apples. “I’ll usually give a lower bid than my actual budget is. Be honest and keep those calls as short as possible.

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