To all you brainiacs seeking to keep your gray matter perking along at a good pace as age tries to slow the rest of you down, the science is in, and it says get super crazy busy. Yup, that Tasmanian devil whirling dervish of daily tasks and activ...
Anyone who attended the Women in Travel (WINiT) Summit in Orlando last July got some big-picture thinking about women’s influence in the world, some practical career takeaways, and the chance to meet nearly 400 other WINiT members, women and...
Last week, the President and the Secretary of the Department of Labor ushered in a new rule that almost doubles the salary threshold for overtime pay from $23,360 to $47,476 per year. With “event coordinator” clocking in at a median of $46,490, a...
Each week, MeetingsNet invites readers to meet a member of WomenInTravel. WINiT is a nonprofit, volunteer-led organization founded in 2014 to support and empower women in the meeting, event, travel, and exhibition industries through access to car...
I read with great amusement a post on the Event Planning and Event Management LinkedIn group by someone who called himself a “member of the Jurassic Park class of event managers” because he looks askance at those who think they can pack everythin...
The “Mentor-in-Chief” (i.e., President Barack Obama) bid farewell to the White House’s 2016 interns recently. “Because change is hard,” he told them, “it’s going to be tempting at some point, when… things aren’t going exactly the way you want the...
A new grant from The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation will provide personalized progressive career preparation and leadership development strategies to students enrolled in the School of Hospitality Leadership at DePaul University. ...
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Mike sits down with Chas Halpern, an award-winning writer, director, and creative consultant. His specialities are humor, dialogue, and storytelling. Most of his ...
You had a long, sleepless flight, and now you have to hit the ground running to make sure everything goes smoothly at your event. Meeting planning—and the travel that goes along with it—can be exhausting even when you get enough sleep. And when y...
