Courses & Certifications

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Become an authority on live stream and digital events. The DES certification is designed to help you effectively plan, produce and measure the results of your live stream and digital engagement events.

This advanced certificate course is designed to equip experienced event and meeting managers with the tools, resources, and business savvy to serve as a strategic advisor in designing, planning, and executing programs.


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According to Convene Magazine’s Salary Survey, Event Organizers with their CMP increase their salary by $11,000. PCMA’s products are designed to help you study on-the-go and on your schedule.

With self-paced content to complete each week, weekly live online class meetings, a peer-based community forum, and access to on-demand videos to support additional knowledge retention, ELI’s CMP Exam Prep Course provides comprehensive support for your entire CMP certification journey.


Known for its high-quality content, Convene offers a monthly series of must read articles organized around CMP knowledge areas that, along with an online test and essay, enables readers to easily earn CEs.

With self-paced content to complete each week, weekly live online class meetings, a peer-based community forum, and access to on-demand videos to support additional knowledge retention, ELI’s CMP Exam Prep Course provides comprehensive support for your entire CMP certification journey.


This course will provide a step-by-step approach to mastering the art of event measurement, from event conception to post-event debrief.

Event Data Strategy Certificate

PCMA’s Event Data Strategy Certificate course provides you with a playbook that will turn your in-person, hybrid, and digital event data into performance elevating insights.


We designed this course to provide you and your team with the knowledge, skills, and know-how to transform your in-person and digital events so they are welcoming, accessible, and inclusive for every body.

PCMA’s Accessibility Considerations for Event Planning Certificate course will demonstrate how to better engage all audiences and drive business event performance by planning with accessibility in mind.


If you are new to the events industry, looking to become an event or meeting planner, or you’ve been planning events for a while but never received the proper training, this is the ultimate course for you!

Are you looking to increase your venue’s bookings? If so, arm yourself with the strategies and tactics you need to succeed. In this detailed course, we’ll dissect the elements that go into a successful sales strategy for a wide range of event venues.


After the venue, audiovisual is often one of the largest budget items, yet so often planners are unable to make sense of a typical proposal. This course will empower you to understand what kind of gear, staff, and set-up your event actually needs to function properly, look right, and be cost-effective.

Crack the code on producing hybrid events that work for your organizations needs, budget, and technology with help from PCMA’s Hybrid Event Production Certificate course.


The Launching Pad: Building Your Event Business is designed for event professionals who are launching their own event business or those with an existing business looking to develop fundamental business skills. This course is ideal for professionals looking for an efficient and comprehensive introduction to key business fundamentals.

Are you ready to take your event business to the next level? In this course we’ll discuss strategies on how successful companies, both inside and outside the event industry, manage to grow into larger versions of themselves. We’ll dissect what it is that keeps most business owners from getting their companies to break out of their plateaus and hit that next stage of growth.


The 7 Change Actions is a seven-module learning experience that delivers mindsets, skillsets, and capabilities to confidently solve complex business challenges with innovation-driven strategic solutions.

Discover the latest on negotiations, meeting design, event tech trends, event strategy and more.

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