I’m fresh off my first experience at World Education Congress, an event industry conference put on by Meeting Professionals International. As a member of MPI and a board member of my local chapter, I’m an active and involved contributor. After seeing the global reach and impact of the organization at WEC 2019, I care about our community more than ever. This comes down to more than just my learnings over the past week.
I had a client with an idea: a restaurant crawl. Planning a reunion party for old friends, he wanted to bring them together to share a meal at several restaurants, one course at a time. As someone who loves to work on new and interesting projects, I of course jumped at the chance to make … Continue reading A YEG Restaurant Crawl
As you probably already know, networking is important in any business. If you're not really on board with this philosophy yet, check out my previous post Networking: Difficult, but Necessary for my thoughts on the topic. As an event planner, thinking about any type of event leads to breaking down ways to make it successful. … Continue reading 4 Keys to Planning a Killer Networking Event
Today I'm straying away from event-focused posting, and I'm going to discuss something a little more broad: networking. It's important for business. It's important for events. Let's be real... it's key to life in general. So why does it have to be so difficult? I'm someone that typically enjoys having people around. I love living … Continue reading Networking: Difficult, But Necessary
I had a client contact me with an interest in putting together an olive oil tasting event. She is in the health and wellness sector, so she wanted to invite a group of her peers to take part in this unique event in order to make new connections and have a little bit of fun.
