Career & Leadership
Better Together: Why Business Events Are Embracing Startups
Finding the right partners will be a hallmark of the next round of breakthrough innovations —making business events and startups a perfect match.
Making Your Body Language Work
Don’t let poor posture — or aggressive eye contact — ruin your interview.
Why Talent Development is Crucial
‘Training is the only way we can grow to our fullest potential and truly be acknowledged for our work,’ says AccorHotels’ Kerry Healy.
What is ‘Sonder’ and Why Should You Care?
Seth Godin says designing your business event the way you’d like to experience it yourself is a flawed approach.
NPR Host Terry Gross Offers Advice on Making Better Conversation
Networking doesn’t need to be painful. Just follow these smart tips from the host of NPR’s “Fresh Air,” who has made a 40-year career out of interviewing people.
Lauren Kramer of Meeting Priorities Follows Her Entrepreneurial Ambitions
The founder and principal of Meeting Priorities LLC offers insights on taking a leap of faith to launch her own business.
Sharon E. Jones Offers Strategies for Self-Promotion in Book
Independent business event professionals know how important self-promotion is to maintaining their livelihoods. But self-promotion doesn’t come naturally to everyone — particularly people who tend to be introverted. In Mastering
How to Help Those Affected by California Wildfires
PCMA Foundation collecting donations to assist members of business events industry community.
PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties Class of 2019 Ready for Future
Members of PCMA’s 20 in Their Twenties class of 2019 see a bright future for the business events industry, a future to which they plan to contribute. They come from all over the world and from various sectors. But what they all have in common is a belief that technology will change the industry in the coming years.
Kati Quigley on Bold, Unbiased Leadership
Senior director of marketing at Microsoft and former chair of PCMA’s Board of Directors shares her perspectives on reducing stress, trusting her team, and learning to be a better leader.
Adrian Segar, Founder of Conferences That Work, on his Career Path
Adrian Segar, founder of Conferences that Work, talks about his career path and give young professionals in the business events industry some advice: If you’re good with people, patient, willing to be flexible, and work hard, you deserve a great work environment; don’t settle for less!
How to Address Discriminatory or Inappropriate Comments at Work
Rania H. Anderson, author of “WE: Men, Women, and the Decisive Formula for Winning at Work,” says everyone has a responsibility to call out discriminatory behaviors.