If you haven't already joined in the strategic meetings management journey, now is the time! I don't use the term “journey” lightly, as developing and implementing an SMM program is not a one-time event. It takes time to assess...

Google defines an event as “1) a thing that happens, especially one of importance; 2) a planned public or social occasion; or 3) each of several particular contests making up a sports competition.” Well, two of the three are relevant...

Big-name artists and corporate events can be a match made in heaven—or elsewhere, if you don’t fully understand how to deal with artists' contracts, and especially their riders.

I picked up a good book during my last business trip, and it has had a profound impact on how I want to spend the rest of my life. If you do one thing in the next month, read, The ONE Thing, by Gary Keller...

Four women executives shared career advice during a mainstage panel discussion at Pharma Forum 2016, held March 20–23 at New York City’s Marriott Marquis. Though billed as way to help women break the glass ceiling, the conversation...

At the closing general session, FICP Executive Director Steve Bova, CAE (right), played morning talk-show host to incoming 2017 Chair Joe Scully, senior director, John Hancock Financial Services. This year’s Financial & Insurance Conference Plann...

More thoughts from the Financial & Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference going on this week in Nashville: • The morning of Day 2 was mainly dedicated to what FICP calls The Network—Live, the business appointment piece of the program...