Professional Development

Paragon Events’ new COO, Francesca Radabaugh, CAE, learned leadership lessons through her work in event planning, budgeting, and marketing. Here’s her advice for planners aspiring to reach the top—or simply trying to get their events through the...

Eventwise: Critical Skills for Tomorrow features 15 monthly educational sessions focused on personal skills that strengthen event-planning competency and leadership ability.

Carrie Abernathy is a woman on a mission to empower meeting professionals to make the world more equitable and inclusive.

Events Industry Council, the consortium of events-industry associations, is among the organizations helping to bring planners to Las Vegas this fall.

The Events Industry Council’s course covers a wide range of environmental and social-impact topics, and brings planners far along in earning their Certified Meetings Professional designation as well.

A conversation with Dawn Penfold on the front lines of the meeting-professional job search

To build awareness and interest for November’s IMEX America in Las Vegas, IMEX Group launches a series of education and networking “Buzz Days.”

Trade-show service provider Fern joins Flex Talent Pool, created by GES to find exhibition-industry workers for temporary projects.

4 statistics that show how much meeting pros know about virtual events compared to this time last year.