The founder and principal of Meeting Priorities LLC offers insights on taking a leap of faith to launch her own business.

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

PCMA Foundation collecting donations to assist members of business events industry community.

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.

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, 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!

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.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where.

You might not be managing your company’s meetings department yet, but that doesn’t mean you can’t start honing your leadership skills today.

Here are a few things to avoid when having difficult conversations, like sandwiching negative feedback between praise.

The chief event strategy officer at the American Society of Hematology and former PCMA chair looks back at his 25-year-old self — and forward to the next generation of attendee engagement.

Your colleagues are on the move, find out who is going where. PCMA People on the Move – Nov 6 2018