Statement of Purpose

All meeting professionals, whether they're responsible for one meeting per year, or one hundred meeting per year have one thing in common: they play a vital role in the success of their companies and associations.

Meetings are a major investment of an organization's dollars and time. The professional meeting manager has a significant job: to return as large of a gain as possible for every dollar spent.

That's the challenge of meeting planning and it grows more important every year as the costs of meetings increase. Direct costs including­ food, rooms, transportation, visual aids, and speakers are ever increasing. Indirect costs including time away from normal duties and time executives spend preparing presentations, take a bigger toll each year from an organization's budget.

This puts even greater demands on today's meeting managers. Whether a planner is full-time or part-time, regardless of their title and other duties, meeting managers need to continually update their professionalism, their meeting-planning skills, and their comprehension of the meeting process. They need to be top-notch managers with the ability to control hundreds of meeting details and bring them to a successful conclusion.