Today's financial services and insurance meeting planners have entered the profession from a host of different directions. Laurie Fitzgerald, CMP, meeting manager at Northbrook, Ill. — based Allstate Financial, for example, majored in Spanish in...
Enjoying its largest turnout ever, Meeting Professionals International welcomed more than 3,600 attendees to its World Education Conference in Dallas, its headquarters city, July 9 to 11...
Pamela Wynne, Manager of Corporate Meeting Planning at Princeton, N.J. — based Educational Testing Service, can't remember the last time she actually planned a meeting...
To help meeting professionals carve out a career path in the ever-evolving world of corporate meetings, three Toronto-area meeting professionals have joined forces to launch a unique mentoring program that is starting to gain traction...
As Corporate Meetings & Incentives went to print, Meeting Professionals International was preparing for the 2006 World Education Conference in Dallas July 9-11, with plenty on its plate and the promise of news to come...
The wage gap between male and female association CEOs is closing a bit, according to ASAE & The Center for Association Leadership's just-released 2006 Association Executive Compensation & Benefits Study. However, while pay for meeting...
Yanks are direct when it comes to business. Friendly and cordial at the outset of a meeting, they are quick to get down to work — a style that some European counterparts can find disconcerting. Brits, on the other hand, prefer a “don't rock the...