2011 Changemakers
20 individuals who are taking their careers—and our industry—to the next level ...
Shawna Suckow on the Growth of SPIN
Shawna Suckow, CMP, launched SPIN as a LinkedIn group in October 2008 as a place for her senior meeting planning friends to network. It now has 2,000 members and has hosted 40 live events in 14 cities....
Meet Four Buyers Who Became Suppliers
What happens when a corporate meeting pro jumps ship and joins the ranks of meetings industry suppliers?...
Conversations in CME
Ann C. Lichti and Karen J. Thomas on Advancing Your CME Career ...
20 Changemakers Announced
Our annual list of individuals have driven SMMP in their companies, advanced their roles as meeting pros, and are taking our industry to the next level...
Diana Ruddick from MassMutual on Career Survival
You've probably got a great network of insurance industry peers and meeting suppliers. But don’t forget your internal network. Here’s how Diana Ruddick built her bridges to a 25-year career....
2009 AM Innovators
Meet five association professionals who are responding to today’s challenges with innovations that have boosted education, set attendance records, and breathed new life into meetings. ...
Corporate Meetings & Incentives' 2009 Changemakers
Last year, we introduced our top 20 Changemakers to the meetings industry 20 individuals who gained visibility among senior management in their companies...
The Elevated Event
Dianne Devitt, CMP, connects the dots between meeting planning, advertising, and public relations...
How Pharma Meeting Planner Lynn Rizdon Rose Through the Ranks
Lynn Ridzon's moment came early on in her career. It was the early 1990s and Ridzon was working as a planner in the marketing and communications department...
MPI Chairwoman of Change
ANGIE PFEIFER, CMM, assistant vice president of corporate meetings travel and incentives for Investors Group Financial Services Inc....
What I Do for a Living
With extreme interest, I read Lawrence Sherman's article What Do I Do for a Living? (June 2007), and it was like a revelation....
Build Your Own Brand to Get Ahead
Positioning yourself as a strategic planner, speaking at industry events, being featured in the media--these and many other tactics are what it takes to build your own brand and get recognized, both inside and outside your organization....
Six Planners’ Routes to the Meeting Profession
Planners often take a circuitous route to the meeting profession. Here's how six people--including a former ballet dancer, parole officer, accountant, and gemologoist--landed the meeting planning jobs that they were always meant to have....
What Do I Do for a Living?
I often have a difficult time describing just what I do for a living to my friends and family....
Doing It All: Women in financial meeting planning on the quest for work-life balance
To the outsider, Karyn Evans appears to have it all under control. A CMP and CMM, the 40-year-old is principal planner of meeting and event services...
Balancing Career and Home
Corporate Meeting Planners’ Stories...
Focusing on Financials is This Planner’s Story
Pamela Wynne, Manager of Corporate Meeting Planning at Princeton, N.J. based Educational Testing Service, can't remember the last time she actually planned...
Carving Your Career
Nancy Berg on Success in Association Meeting Planning...
Diary Of A Job Hunter, Summer, 2004
Summer 2004 I first heard the thunder in the distance last June, when the company's new human resource director called a meeting of our education team...
