When J.P. Morgan took over Seattle-based Washington Mutual in September 2008, the New York investment firm decided to downsize the West Coast office with the intention of ultimately moving employees east. Kathy Rust, CMP, CTC, then vice president...
Maarten Vanneste founder of the Meeting Support Institute, talks about his book Meeting Architecture, a Manifesto and his vision for a new kind of meeting professional.
Not too long ago, the role of the meeting professional generally was more tactical than strategic. Planners focused mainly on logistics, didn’t have much influence on the larger picture, and usually came into the process after most of the...
Two travel industry associations, the United Motorcoach Association and the National Tour Association, will co-locate their annual conventions starting in 2013...
Jim Louis, CIO and meeting planner at Best Meetings Inc., Bloomington, Minn., is...
Kati Quigley, CMP, is the 2009 chair-elect of the Professional Convention Management Association, the first corporate planner to hold that position.
We need to move away from producing one-size-fits-all CME, and develop high-quality activities that employ new formats to improve patient care.
Advice from New York City-based psychotherapist and organizational consultant Joan Westreic
Brandy and Stephen Lewis are partners in life and work. Here's how they keep a happy balance.
Sometimes it takes someone outside a particular environment to truly analyze it. This is what happened to me on a recent plane flight after I described what I did for a living...