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Deep Dive: Increase Your EQ With Positive Intelligence™
Areas of Interest: Strategic Thinking & Impact CMP-IS Domain E: Human Resources
Speakers:
Rachelle Stone, PCC, CPQC, Coach, Speaker Advisor, R Stone Consulting
Vimari Roman, CMM, CGLC, CPQC, Founder & CEO, Be Productive Coaching
Whether we realize it or not, all too often teams are underachieving their potential due to various elements of conflict, friction, stress and being overworked. Thin resources, higher costs and multiple generations in the workforce are bringing new challenges to the meetings industry. You have the power to manage these challenges more effectively with a positive mindset.
Raising your Positive Intelligence™ and emotional intelligence enables you to lower stress, improve communications and relationships, increase sales and better manage differences in conversations and volatile situations.
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Deep Dive: Let's Talk Budgets
Areas of Interest: Strategic Thinking & Impact CMP-IS Domain D: Financial Management
Meredith Buggelli, Corporate Vice President – Corporate Events, Head of Industry Relations & Administration, New York Life Insurance Company
Taylor Laws, CMP, DMCP, Regional Director of Sales, Destination South Meetings & Events
Jeff Silva, Senior Sales Executive, The Vinoy Resort and Golf Club, Autograph Collection
Moderator:
Budgeting and sticking to a budget might be one of the more challenging tasks for meeting professionals and hospitality partners, especially in today's climate.
In this session, our presenters will talk through scenarios of how to keep budgets low while still offering high-quality meetings. They will share how to ask budgeting questions to benefit you, your partners and stakeholders.
Deep Dive: Mission-Based Teams: Reinvent the Way You Work
Areas of Interest: Strategic Thinking & Impact CMP-IS Domain A: Strategic Planning
Speaker:
Constant change is here to stay, and the demands on our workforce in a 24/7 world are increasing. The old models of efficiency and “do more with less” are no longer attainable when teams are unable to respond to the speed of change fast enough. We need a new approach.
In this deep dive session, Bill Fournet will show leaders how to create empowered teams that can rapidly confront whatever comes next using Mission-Based Teams™. This revolutionary management approach will increase your organization’s agility while maintaining focus and alignment.
Leveraging lessons from “apex” performing teams, Bill equips leaders and organizations to not only survive — but thrive — even in volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous conditions.
Meetings Professionals Exchange
Areas of Interest: Meeting Planning Trends & Solutions CMP-IS Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Heidi Carlisle, Second Vice President, Travel, Meetings & Incentives, Aflac
During this hour-long conversation, in conjunction with breakfast with other meetings professionals, you will have the opportunity to discuss the burning questions you have, important topics related to the industry and much more.
Heidi Carlisle, Education Forum Event Team Chair, will lead the discussion based on topics YOU identified as important to you.
HP-Only Session
During this hour-long conversation, in conjunction with breakfast with other hospitality partners, you will have the opportunity to participate in small-group discussions to understand what is new in the industry and how suppliers are navigating the challenges and opportunities 2023 is facing.
The HPAC will lead these discussions based on topics YOU identified as important.
Better Ways to Collaborate With AV Providers
Areas of Interest: Technology Solutions CMP-IS Domain D: Meeting or Event Design
Courtney Bryson, MPA, CMP, Senior Event Manager, Prudential
John Cruz, Senior Corporate Meeting Planner, BlueCross BlueShield of North Carolina
Nate Horne, Senior Account Executive, L!VE
Joe Schmelz, President, Wolfgang Production Agency
Effective audio and visual (AV) support for in-person meetings is essential for a successful event experience. With that comes the need to create, strengthen and maintain strong partnerships with new AV companies and providers.
In this session, we’ll dig into the key questions you should be asking your AV provider when it comes to your meeting needs, what is actually needed to execute your event smoothly and how to discuss tight budgets to ensure a smooth event without breaking the bank.
Managing Stakeholder Expectations
Meg D'Angelo, CIS, DES, AVP, Corporate Events and Hospitality, Lincoln Financial Group
Communicating with stakeholders about the current issues that meetings professionals and hospitality partners are facing can be challenging, especially when compounded with limited time and opportunities to present that timely and important information while simultaneously packaging it in a way that will get through to them.
Join our presenters as they share their tips and tricks for effective communication with stakeholders and how you can better help your stakeholders understand the current climate in the industry.
FICP Chat LIVE! All Things Sustainability
Lindsay Maloni, CMP, DMC, Global Sales Director, DMC Network
We all want to be more sustainable but how can we effectively do so — and within budget?
In this FICP Chat LIVE! session, you and your peers will break into groups to discuss all things sustainability, including:
At the conclusion of this session, each group will report their top takeaways to determine best practices for incorporating sustainability into their events.
Inclusivity Within Meetings
Jill Lippincott, Program Manager - Supplier Diversity & Sustainability, Principal Financial Group
Joel Tillirson, Events Director, TRUE Network of Advisors and Patriot Growth Insurance Services
The power of connection, exploration and education that meetings and events provide is an unmatched experience – especially when it’s supportive of everyone in attendance and empowers participation without barriers through diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).
Whether you’re currently integrating DEI in your event planning or looking for ideas to do so, join this session to hear real-life examples of how others are incorporating DEI into their meetings and events.
Your Essential Digital Toolbox: Making the Most of Tech Tools to Enhance Your Productivity
Areas of Interest: Technology Solutions CMP-IS Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
James Spellos, President, Meetings U
There are apps, web resources, digital shortcuts and thousands more tools and services designed to help enhance your productivity. How do you decide which ones you’ll actually use and that you actually find helpful in your role as a meetings professional?
In this session, we’ll explore some of the best (and free) resources — as well as tips and tricks — so you can narrow down and add to your essential digital toolbox.
Whether you’re trying to build an app (yes, you can do that for free), ensure that your organization can optimize its social presence or be able to do something quicker and easier, this session is essential to enhancing your productivity.
Risk Management Business Plans
Areas of Interest: Meeting Planning Trends & Solutions CMP-IS Domain C: Risk Management
Yolanda Gonzalez, DMCP, National Sales Director, Discover Puerto Rico
Over the past three years, most risk management conversations focused on COVID-19 — and for good reason — but it’s time we continue the conversation around risk management with a new lens.
In this session, we’ll revisit the importance of a good risk management business plan, explore new tips and strategies to consider and more!