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...
The 2016 Financial and Insurance Conference Planners Annual Conference, held Nov. 9–12 at the Omni Nashville Hotel in Nashville, Tenn., drew a record 264 financial and insurance conference professionals representing 137 companies, along with...
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...
Opening keynote speaker and author Tom Koulopoulos made an impassioned plea for the need to break through old patterns of thought.Waiting for my flight yesterday morning at Boston’s Logan airport, I was kind of dreading going to my first Financia...
Meeting planners are accustomed to talking about “front of house” and “back of house” staff at the hotels and resorts they book for meetings and incentives. But how many refer to “the heart of the house” when...
Working for a company with the tagline “Extraordinary Experiences for Good” prompts vibrant discussions about meaningful work. We all spend a lot of time at our jobs and some of us have been fortunate over the course of a career to...
Benchmark Hospitality International and Gemstone Hotels & Resorts have merged to become BENCHMARK, a global hospitality company with a new corporate identity and three distinct hotel collections. The combined portfolio includes more than...