Domain C: Risk Management | 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Your No. 1 role as a meeting professional isn’t executing flawless experiences or driving business results for your organization. It’s ensuring the safety and security of the people you have brought together onsite. But if this is your most critical role, how prepared do you feel for stepping into it during a crisis or incident? And do you have the plans in place to ensure that you are successful?
Build and maintain an understanding of the risk management and emergency planning process with this six-hour certificate course, developed in partnership with the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at the University of Southern Mississippi. Discover processes for risk assessment and emergency preparedness, adapted from the best-in-class experts in marathons and World Cups. Deep dive into incident management strategies as needed for the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from all-hazard emergency incidents. Discover techniques to prevent and respond to everything from ordinary incidents such as fights or drunkenness to extraordinary crimes, violence, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.
Learn how you can ensure the safety and security of all attendees, limit damage, and restore services in the event of emergencies. Helping your organization host successful meetings begins with creating events that are safe and secure for all attendees and stakeholders. Give yourself the tools you need to effectively plan for and respond to crisis and deliver on your responsibility to your attendees and your organization.
You’ll Be Able To:
6 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Member/$699 Non-Member
Thinking like a start-up company isn’t a fad, it’s a way of reimagining the way that you do business. Every day, new and established businesses flounder trying to survive in an ever-evolving and sometimes uncertain market. How can you change the trajectory of your business’s growth? By harnessing the power of entrepreneurial leadership.
Do you often feel like you excel at helping others, extinguishing fires, and putting together the most complex logistics? If so, you likely are wondering about what is next for your business. Whether that be venturing out on your own or gaining more insight and clarity about your path of development – thinking like an entrepreneur and learning how to implement entrepreneurial strategies will get you there.
Specifically, this course will focus on how you can:
At the completion of this workshop, you will be on the cutting edge of entrepreneurial strategy and thinking as you:
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
Domain G: Meeting or Event Design| 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
The Spirit of Inclusion goes beyond basic legal compliance to welcoming and embracing the many aspects of diversity and different perspectives that create powerful experiences and environments for problem-solving, innovation and success. Inclusion is the right thing to do … but it also enhances business value and profits for organizations when they send the right messages to audiences and embrace all the ways in which people are different.
MPI’s Inclusive Events Strategist certificate focuses on practical actions that meeting professionals on both sides of the marketplace can take to create inclusive environments at their events. Explore the different dimensions of diversity to ensure the full and respectful participation of all participants and attendees, as well as your role as an inclusion broker for the diverse groups you represent.
Explore recent MPI Foundation research conducted by the New York University Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality and discover where meeting professionals are excelling in the creation of welcoming environments, and the areas where they could improve in enhancing the experience for diverse groups. Meanwhile, gain access to more than 350 best practices for designing and executing inclusive experiences that embrace all your diverse attendees.
MPI’s focus is not on changing individual beliefs or ideas. Our goal is to explore the topic of inclusion and its relationship to the success of events and to provide strategies and actions that you can take to create inclusive experiences.
You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Given the reality of the current pandemic, meeting professionals are finding it nearly impossible to make decisions related to the business of events. What will the conditions look like in the next year? What will the new reality look like? And how are other meeting professionals overcoming current obstacles to grow business? Much is uncertain, but current projections can help. Deep dive into MPI's most recent Meetings Outlook research, published quarterly in The Meeting Professional magazine, and then discuss the trends that are most affecting you and your peers.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Review the forecast for events in the coming year, including a budget, attendance, and business conditions.
2. Deep dive into trends that matter and discuss the next steps with your peers.
3. Learn how these trends affect you and the future of your meetings.
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
This Program Graciously Sponsored by:
4 Clock Hours | Domain E: Human Resources or Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
The Leadership Strategist Certificate Course is a 4-hour course designed for new to mid-level professionals who want to develop and strengthen their unique leadership voice. This class will help you define, own, and share your personal leadership voice to make you a more competitive and confident professional within the meetings & events industry.
The Event Leadership Strategist course is an essential part of the career strategy for every professional within the meetings & events industry. Whether you have been in the business many years or are just getting started, you will benefit from the clarity of understanding your leadership voice and the power it holds.
Make an Impact
The Leadership Strategist Certificate Course will help you professionally distinguish yourself by:
Despite decades of research, millions of leadership articles & books, there is no widely accepted definition of leadership. That is because each person’s approach to leadership is as unique as the leader. Attend this session to get clear on your unique leadership and breakthrough the career barriers holding you back from your next level of success.
Bust Leadership Myths
The world is ripe with myths about leadership such as:
Join this course to challenge assumptions that may be holding you back. As John Quincy Adams said, “if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader!”
Get the Edge in Life and Leadership:
Increase your effectiveness and influence by improving the clarity and strength of your leadership voice. This session is for mold-breaking, high-impact leaders to identify their unique skills and leadership perspective, so they can lead in unexpected ways and achieve unprecedented results.
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
There has been much dialogue and conversation regarding the increased instances of micro-aggression and racism against the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community brought on by the pandemic. Often referred to as the “model and invisible minority”, Asian Americans are currently grappling with fear and uncertainty in their daily lives. Having their own unique and different experience to other people of color, this community is often referred as the silent model minority, and the AAPI voice can no longer remain silent. Join us for an important conversation led by Asian American meetings & events thought leaders who will share their personal and professional experiences on being Asian in this industry and navigating an industry where there still remains little representation.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Engage in a candid discussion about the personal experiences of Asian Americans in the meetings & events industry
2. Understand ways that our industry can be a catalyst for social change to address microaggressions and systemic racism
3. How we can all use our voices and be allies in the fight against anti-Asian racism
This session is powered by:
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6 Clock Hours – Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Members/$699 Non-Members
Format: 3-hour lecture | 3-hour workshop
The Event Data Analyst course can best be described as a practitioner’s journey from problem identification to the presentation of recommendations.
As our roles continue to evolve within the meetings industry, becoming more strategic is at the core of our evolution. But what does it mean to be strategic?
Being strategic is not only a critical attribute of leadership but also involves the ongoing practice of making informed decisions, which are based on data, not intuition. As an event strategist, you need the ability to think critically, with a lens that supports overarching goals. You need to be able to extract insights from data and determine the next steps. You need to compare and contrast solutions. You need to form and communicate recommendations in ways stakeholders and executives can easily understand.
At the completion of the program, you'll be able to:
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting and Event Design
An event planner is the sixth most stressful job in America. In a survey of meeting professionals, 14-time author of The Book of Trust found that the most stressful element of a meeting professional's job is the dependency on other people. How do you know who you can trust? And what should you do if you can't trust them? Listen to this interview with Dr. Solomon as he explains trust, trustworthiness, how to know who to trust, and what to do when you can't.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Understand how trust compensates for risk and fear
2. Identify the risk areas in your event project
3. Apply the 8 laws of trust and the 6 components of trustworthiness to know who to trust in the process of planning your event
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $149 member / $199 non-member
Global compliance regulations are constantly changing. This refresh course is required every two years for recipients of the Healthcare Meetings Compliance Certificate and ensures that attendees are aware of and can apply healthcare meeting compliance regulations, cross-border compliance, CMS Open Payments changes and updates, the EFPIA Disclosure Code, and other trends. Meeting Professionals International (MPI) requires all current HMCCs to attend a refresh webinar on the second anniversary of their class date.
Participants Also Receive:
HMCC credential for two years (subject to refresh class)
1 Clock Hour | Domain G: Meeting and Event Design
Events have the power of bringing change in attendee behavior with one event at a time. With an opportunity of paving a new way through humanity, it is imperative for Event Professionals to ensure the experiences they design to deliver a message of 'Inclusivity as natural behavior' that makes everyone feel welcome. How do you create an Inclusive experience in a virtual environment? Let's talk about 10 best practices that make sure all attendees experience your events to its full potential.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Create inclusive virtual experiences in order to increase your brand credibility and humanize your events.
2. Deliver a virtual event experience that will help in increasing attendee engagement and interactions in an environment that is safe and inclusive for everyone.
3. Inclusive virtual experience is a continuous process in order to make it seamless and second nature to brands and their audience outreach.
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
Domain C: Risk Management | 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Your No. 1 role as a meeting professional isn’t executing flawless experiences or driving business results for your organization. It’s ensuring the safety and security of the people you have brought together onsite. But if this is your most critical role, how prepared do you feel for stepping into it during a crisis or incident? And do you have the plans in place to ensure that you are successful?
Build and maintain an understanding of the risk management and emergency planning process with this six-hour certificate course, developed in partnership with the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at the University of Southern Mississippi. Discover processes for risk assessment and emergency preparedness, adapted from the best-in-class experts in marathons and World Cups. Deep dive into incident management strategies as needed for the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from all-hazard emergency incidents. Discover techniques to prevent and respond to everything from ordinary incidents such as fights or drunkenness to extraordinary crimes, violence, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.
Learn how you can ensure the safety and security of all attendees, limit damage, and restore services in the event of emergencies. Helping your organization host successful meetings begins with creating events that are safe and secure for all attendees and stakeholders. Give yourself the tools you need to effectively plan for and respond to crisis and deliver on your responsibility to your attendees and your organization.
You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
An interactive presentation that highlights nine countries/regions and the top cultural tips to know when working with people from these countries. The presentation is designed to provide a brief overview of each culture’s customs and norms in order to help you understand the similarities and differences between them. It also includes fun and engaging trivia to promote additional learning!
Learner Outcomes:
1. In order to successfully work with people from various cultures when planning and executing events, its critical to comprehend the differences between people of different backgrounds.
2. This presentation will allow participants to attain valuable cultural tips on nine countries/regions (USA, Mexico, Brazil, Germany, Ghana, Middle East, India, China, Japan) and the people from these countries who do business around the world.
3. Participants will attain knowledge to develop and promote positive perceptions and attitudes of people from around the world.
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
Domain A: Strategic Planning | 4 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Healthcare meeting professionals on both sides of the marketplace must balance designing and hosting events and quantifiable returns for their organizations with unprecedented and frequent changes in global healthcare compliance and regulations for their companies, their attendees, their destinations, and more. They must tackle tough regulations and adjust and readjust priorities while keeping an eye on short- and long-term survival—a tough job that requires a continuous flow of knowledge.
Invest in your future and your company’s success by participating in MPI’s Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which provides a condensed foundation in key healthcare disciplines. Designed for both event strategists and their partners who need a broad understanding of a full range of regulatory topics, this program develops competency groundwork while building critical thinking skills through case studies, business simulation, discussion, and active exercises. This intensive, four-hour educational and training program provides healthcare meeting compliance stakeholders with the knowledge and experience they need to successfully navigate the increasingly complex pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device regulatory environment.
Upon completion of this program, attendees will earn the HMCC credential signifying awareness of and competence in the latest compliance regulations that impact healthcare meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
Course Preparation:
Cost: $499 member/ $699 non-member
Domain A: Strategic Planning | 6 clock hours
If you been involved with the design and creation of meetings and events for 10 months or 10 years, there are certain definable and demonstrable steps to ensuring successful execution, delivery and measurement. MPI’s Basics Boot Camp offers a lightning-fast deep dive into the fundamentals of successful event planning—from defining meeting goals and objectives and identifying stakeholders through meeting design, development, RPFs and contracting to food and beverage, staging, audiovisual, and more.
This certificate class touches on every element of the meeting planning process, offering you the opportunity to employ best practices for your business, make changes to your processes and procedures and ensure that your operations conform with industry-leading standards. Basics Boot Camp offers a strong foundation in the core skills and practices necessary to plan meetings and events.
If you are new to event planning—or you’ve been doing this for a while—this A-Z certificate class offers a series of best practices and must-perform tactics to ensure successful event execution for any level.
You’ll Be Able To:
• Identify meeting stakeholders and employ your role as intermediary and mediator to evaluate their needs toward designing right-fit experiences
• Define event goals and SMART objectives and employ strategies for measuring the value of your meetings
• Develop budgets and blueprints and assess potential risks associated with your meeting or event
• Manage the RFP process, conduct well-thought-out and precise site inspections, select vendors, and develop contracts
• Design your meeting using key elements that enable your organization to achieve on its meeting goals and objectives
• Manage speakers and conference content design, design room sets, work with audiovisual teams, and design technical plans
• Plan menus and arrange transportation and attendee movement plans
• Oversee pre- and post-conference meetings and onsite logistics and conduct program evaluations
• Communicate success metrics to meeting stakeholders
Domain I: Marketing | 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
Brands use in-person, digital, and hybrid events to connect to customers. But did you know that these same events are absolute goldmines of customer data that often go unnoticed due to a lack of event marketing strategies?
With MPI’s Event Marketing Strategist certificate program, you’ll understand what it takes to meet brand goals and objectives through events—regardless of the platform. Cvent and MPI have brought together top experts to deliver an unparalleled, four-hour course focused on the purposeful and measurable practice of deploying live and virtual events to achieve brand marketing and revenue goals.
You’ll uncover “the why” behind the choices necessary to achieve objectives, and you’ll start to grow your role from logistician to strategist by delivering impactful attendee experiences that bring systematic returns to your clients’ bottom lines.
Through the program, you’ll learn how to uncover invaluable data that will drive bottom-line results, and your value as a meeting and event professional will skyrocket as a result.
During this Program You’ll Explore:
At the completion of the program, You’ll Be Able To:
Domain A: Strategic Planning| 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
As automation and AI increasingly create efficiencies in the modern workforce, meeting professionals must embrace a role that is shifting increasingly into the strategic space. But what does that mean, and what future-ready skills are required to thrive in an environment where you do have a seat at the table? The first steps are understanding the value that your meetings drive for your business, and more importantly, being able to articulate that value to senior members of your organization.
You need to be able to create, design, and execute meetings that help your organization achieve five-year business goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) and that drive efficiency in the workplace, and you must be able to demonstrate in quantifiable ways how your meetings positively impact revenues, profits, and cost-savings for your business. You are no longer a meeting planner; you are a strategist that drives significant growth for your organization, and you know how to articulate that value in meaningful ways to business leaders.
Meeting professionals must understand the value of their events to ensure that they successfully achieve business goals and objectives, justify costs, design authentic and deliberate experiences, and improve their events over time. Understanding and demonstrating the role meetings play in driving organizational growth and effectiveness is an integral, future-ready skill that fuels better, more strategic meetings and events and motivates businesses to look at their meeting managers as strategic and essential players on senior leadership teams.
You can be a key player and business leader in your organization … if you position yourself as a strategist and consultant who can drive growth and value through the utilization of an important business tool—meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Domain B: Project Management | 6 Clock Hours
Contracting and negotiation are crucial—yet complex—roles for meeting professionals and understanding legal terminology and common contract clauses (and the liabilities they protect against) allows meeting professionals to negotiate from a position of strength. Even if you know what to look for, contracting is dynamic, and negotiation strategies change with market conditions, competition, and the economy. Solid knowledge of contract law and negotiation tactics enables meeting professionals to protect the interests of their organizations. With knowledge comes power, especially when it comes to legal matters.
Negotiating contracts involves managing financial and liability risks and protecting your business, particularly when considering the performance clauses (attrition and cancellation) that are standard in most venue contracts. No contracts are the same; words and phrasing vary and need to be carefully reviewed and edited. Sometimes, additional clauses must be added to balance the risk and liability between parties. And what of force majeure, indemnification, and the host of clauses that deal with issues that range from nuisances to calamities, such as construction and remodeling and incompatible groups?
It’s said the only right answer in the law is “it depends.” This certificate program will illustrate legal principles with examples from the news, the instructor, and your peers. Bring success and horror stories to share with other participants, enhance your legal knowledge, and fulfill your role to negotiate contracts that protect your organization from the financial and liability risks associated with your meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Given the reality of the current pandemic, meeting professionals are finding it nearly impossible to make decisions related to the business of events. What will the conditions look like in the next year? What will the new reality look like? And how are other meeting professionals overcoming current obstacles to grow business? Much is uncertain, but current projections can help. Deep dive into MPI's most recent Meetings Outlook research, published quarterly in The Meeting Professional magazine, and then discuss the trends that are most affecting you and your peers.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Review the forecast for events in the coming year, including a budget, attendance, and business conditions.
2. Deep dive into trends that matter and discuss the next steps with your peers.
3. Learn how these trends affect you and the future of your meetings.
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
6 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Member/$699 Non-Member
Thinking like a start-up company isn’t a fad, it’s a way of reimagining the way that you do business. Every day, new and established businesses flounder trying to survive in an ever-evolving and sometimes uncertain market. How can you change the trajectory of your business’s growth? By harnessing the power of entrepreneurial leadership.
Do you often feel like you excel at helping others, extinguishing fires, and putting together the most complex logistics? If so, you likely are wondering about what is next for your business. Whether that be venturing out on your own or gaining more insight and clarity about your path of development – thinking like an entrepreneur and learning how to implement entrepreneurial strategies will get you there.
Specifically, this course will focus on how you can:
At the completion of this workshop, you will be on the cutting edge of entrepreneurial strategy and thinking as you:
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
Domain C: Risk Management | 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
Meeting professionals aren’t responsible for communication during a crisis … right? WRONG!
You hold a variety of roles when an incident unfolds onsite during a meeting or event, including the coordination of the emergency management team, the determination of the next steps, and the consultation, management, and direction of the communication process. Your marketing team isn’t going to know the best communication streams to use, which ones are available, and how best to communicate and when. But if those are the roles of a meeting professional, are you prepared to act when a crisis happens?
Meeting professionals must ensure that there is a crisis communications plan in place (and assert their roles as leaders on the team that creates it), that spokespeople are trained to respond at the moment, and that their organizations are ready to communicate to attendees across multiple platforms. Being prepared ultimately comes down to developing a communications plan that includes three things: 1) auditing vulnerabilities, 2) training spokespeople, and 3) establishing means of communicating.
This certificate class will answer your burning questions about how to use social media and other forms of communication when it really matters. The basic steps of effective crisis communications are not difficult, but they require advance work to minimize risk and damage. Learn how to create a crisis communications plan for your event and make critical decisions for your organization and experience an exercise in real-time crisis communications. Never be caught unprepared again.
In the wake of crises like the Route 91 Harvest Festival shooting and Hurricane Maria, how we communicate to our attendees is something we can no longer overlook
You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
The MPI MD Advisory Board, and our sponsors, invite you to join our series on medical meetings.
Due to the overwhelming response to our recent webinar on The Future of Medical Meetings, MPI, in conjunction with our sponsors, presents a 4-part series that will cover important topics relevant to the current and future state of medical meetings. Due to the rapidly changing business environment, we are facing, topics will vary based on what’s relevant at the time leading up to each panel discussion. Each session will cover important regulation updates and include Q&A with a panel of global meetings and compliance experts. Each class will end with a summary of global compliance regulations and legal changes that have taken place in the previous quarter.
Each session is worth 1.5 CEU’s and a Certificate of Completion will be awarded to those who attend all 4 sessions.
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6 Clock Hours – Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Members/$699 Non-Members
Format: 3-hour lecture | 3-hour workshop
The Event Data Analyst course can best be described as a practitioner’s journey from problem identification to the presentation of recommendations.
As our roles continue to evolve within the meetings industry, becoming more strategic is at the core of our evolution. But what does it mean to be strategic?
Being strategic is not only a critical attribute of leadership but also involves the ongoing practice of making informed decisions, which are based on data, not intuition. As an event strategist, you need the ability to think critically, with a lens that supports overarching goals. You need to be able to extract insights from data and determine the next steps. You need to compare and contrast solutions. You need to form and communicate recommendations in ways stakeholders and executives can easily understand.
At the completion of the program, you'll be able to:
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
This Program Graciously Sponsored by:
4 Clock Hours | Domain E: Human Resources or Domain F: Stakeholder Management
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
The Event Leadership Strategist Certificate Course is a 4-hour course designed for new to mid-level professionals who want to develop and strengthen their unique leadership voice. This class will help you define, own, and share your personal leadership voice to make you a more competitive and confident professional within the meetings & events industry.
The Event Leadership Strategist course is an essential part of the career strategy for every professional within the meetings & events industry. Whether you have been in the business many years or are just getting started, you will benefit from the clarity of understanding your leadership voice and the power it holds.
Make an Impact
The Event Leadership Strategist Certificate Course will help you professionally distinguish yourself by:
Despite decades of research, millions of leadership articles & books, there is no widely accepted definition of leadership. That is because each person’s approach to leadership is as unique as the leader. Attend this session to get clear on your unique leadership and breakthrough the career barriers holding you back from your next level of success.
Bust Leadership Myths
The world is ripe with myths about leadership such as:
Join this course to challenge assumptions that may be holding you back. As John Quincy Adams said, “if your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader!”
Get the Edge in Life and Leadership:
Increase your effectiveness and influence by improving the clarity and strength of your leadership voice. This session is for mold-breaking, high-impact leaders to identify their unique skills and leadership perspective, so they can lead in unexpected ways and achieve unprecedented results.
Want access to great educational content year-round for a free or reduced rate? Learn more about MPI membership here today!
This session is powered by:
Communicate in Any Language - Everything you say, translated on the fly.
REFRESH: Healthcare Meetings Compliance Certificate (HMCC)
Length: Two Hours
Cost: $149 member / $199 non-member
Global compliance regulations are constantly changing. This refresh course is required every two years for recipients of the Healthcare Meetings Compliance Certificate and ensures that attendees are aware of and can apply healthcare meeting compliance regulations, cross-border compliance, CMS Open Payments changes and updates, the EFPIA Disclosure Code and other trends. Meeting Professionals International (MPI) requires all current HMCCs to attend a refresh webinar on the second anniversary of their class date.
Participants Also Receive:
HMCC credential for two years (subject to refresh class)
2 clock hours in CMP-IS Strategic Domain A: Strategic Planning
Domain A: Strategic Planning| 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
With the launch of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in 2015, the government and industry have refocused toward the 2030 achievement of responsible targets from poverty, hunger, and education to climate action, clean energy, and sustainable growth. These 17 goals have filtered through all levels of business, including meetings and events.
As the meeting and event industry looks for solutions to the climate crisis, plastic pollution, and other world challenges, the potential increases for our sector to be a force for good. Humans will always gather for face-to-face connection, so the challenge for today's event professionals remains—how can we plan those gatherings in ways that preserve the planet for future generations?
Through MPI's Sustainable Event Strategist Certificate Program, discover how to view the event planning process through the lens of sustainability. Learn tactical best practices for reducing the environmental impact of your events and explore how to create a culture of sustainable decision-making throughout your planning process.
Sustainability isn't just a matter of protecting the planet — it's a matter of relevance. In today's world, a robust sustainability strategy is vital for meeting your stakeholders' expectations and maintaining event credibility. In this program, learn how to plan your event with sustainability as a core value, as well as measure and share results to build stakeholder trust.
You’ll Be Able To:
Domain A: Strategic Planning| 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
As automation and AI increasingly create efficiencies in the modern workforce, meeting professionals must embrace a role that is shifting increasingly into the strategic space. But what does that mean, and what future-ready skills are required to thrive in an environment where you do have a seat at the table? The first steps are understanding the value that your meetings drive for your business, and more importantly, being able to articulate that value to senior members of your organization.
You need to be able to create, design, and execute meetings that help your organization achieve five-year business goals and key performance indicators (KPIs) and that drive efficiency in the workplace, and you must be able to demonstrate in quantifiable ways how your meetings positively impact revenues, profits, and cost-savings for your business. You are no longer a meeting planner; you are a strategist that drives significant growth for your organization, and you know how to articulate that value in meaningful ways to business leaders.
Meeting professionals must understand the value of their events to ensure that they successfully achieve business goals and objectives, justify costs, design authentic and deliberate experiences, and improve their events over time. Understanding and demonstrating the role meetings play in driving organizational growth and effectiveness is an integral, future-ready skill that fuels better, more strategic meetings and events and motivates businesses to look at their meeting managers as strategic and essential players on senior leadership teams.
You can be a key player and business leader in your organization … if you position yourself as a strategist and consultant who can drive growth and value through the utilization of an important business tool—meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
Domain G: Meeting or Event Design| 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
The Spirit of Inclusion goes beyond basic legal compliance to welcoming and embracing the many aspects of diversity and different perspectives that create powerful experiences and environments for problem-solving, innovation, and success. Inclusion is the right thing to do … but it also enhances business value and profits for organizations when they send the right messages to audiences and embrace all the ways in which people are different.
MPI’s Inclusive Events Strategist certificate focuses on practical actions that meeting professionals on both sides of the marketplace can take to create inclusive environments at their events. Explore the different dimensions of diversity to ensure the full and respectful participation of all participants and attendees, as well as your role as an inclusion broker for the diverse groups you represent.
Explore recent MPI Foundation research conducted by the New York University Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality and discover where meeting professionals are excelling in the creation of welcoming environments, and the areas where they could improve in enhancing the experience for diverse groups. Meanwhile, gain access to more than 350 best practices for designing and executing inclusive experiences that embrace all your diverse attendees.
MPI’s focus is not on changing individual beliefs or ideas. Our goal is to explore the topic of inclusion and its relationship to the success of events and to provide strategies and actions that you can take to create inclusive experiences.
You’ll Be Able To:
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Domain B: Project Management | 6 Clock Hours
Contracting and negotiation are crucial—yet complex—roles for meeting professionals and understanding legal terminology and common contract clauses (and the liabilities they protect against) allows meeting professionals to negotiate from a position of strength. Even if you know what to look for, contracting is dynamic, and negotiation strategies change with market conditions, competition, and the economy. Solid knowledge of contract law and negotiation tactics enables meeting professionals to protect the interests of their organizations. With knowledge comes power, especially when it comes to legal matters.
Negotiating contracts involves managing financial and liability risks and protecting your business, particularly when considering the performance clauses (attrition and cancellation) that are standard in most venue contracts. No contracts are the same; words and phrasing vary and need to be carefully reviewed and edited. Sometimes, additional clauses must be added to balance the risk and liability between parties. And what of force majeure, indemnification, and the host of clauses that deal with issues that range from nuisances to calamities, such as construction and remodeling and incompatible groups?
It’s said the only right answer in the law is “it depends.” This certificate program will illustrate legal principles with examples from the news, the instructor, and your peers. Bring success and horror stories to share with other participants, enhance your legal knowledge, and fulfill your role to negotiate contracts that protect your organization from the financial and liability risks associated with your meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
Cost: $499 member/ $699 non-member
Domain A: Strategic Planning | 6 clock hours
If you been involved with the design and creation of meetings and events for 10 months or 10 years, there are certain definable and demonstrable steps to ensuring successful execution, delivery and measurement. MPI’s Basics Boot Camp offers a lightning-fast deep dive into the fundamentals of successful event planning—from defining meeting goals and objectives and identifying stakeholders through meeting design, development, RPFs and contracting to food and beverage, staging, audiovisual, and more.
This certificate class touches on every element of the meeting planning process, offering you the opportunity to employ best practices for your business, make changes to your processes and procedures and ensure that your operations conform with industry-leading standards. Basics Boot Camp offers a strong foundation in the core skills and practices necessary to plan meetings and events.
If you are new to event planning—or you’ve been doing this for a while—this A-Z certificate class offers a series of best practices and must-perform tactics to ensure successful event execution for any level.
You’ll Be Able To:
• Identify meeting stakeholders and employ your role as intermediary and mediator to evaluate their needs toward designing right-fit experiences
• Define event goals and SMART objectives and employ strategies for measuring the value of your meetings
• Develop budgets and blueprints and assess potential risks associated with your meeting or event
• Manage the RFP process, conduct well-thought-out and precise site inspections, select vendors, and develop contracts
• Design your meeting using key elements that enable your organization to achieve on its meeting goals and objectives
• Manage speakers and conference content design, design room sets, work with audiovisual teams, and design technical plans
• Plan menus and arrange transportation and attendee movement plans
• Oversee pre- and post-conference meetings and onsite logistics and conduct program evaluations
• Communicate success metrics to meeting stakeholders
6 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Member/$699 Non-Member
Thinking like a start-up company isn’t a fad, it’s a way of reimagining the way that you do business. Every day, new and established businesses flounder trying to survive in an ever-evolving and sometimes uncertain market. How can you change the trajectory of your business’s growth? By harnessing the power of entrepreneurial leadership.
Do you often feel like you excel at helping others, extinguishing fires, and putting together the most complex logistics? If so, you likely are wondering about what is next for your business. Whether that be venturing out on your own or gaining more insight and clarity about your path of development – thinking like an entrepreneur and learning how to implement entrepreneurial strategies will get you there.
Specifically, this course will focus on how you can:
At the completion of this workshop, you will be on the cutting edge of entrepreneurial strategy and thinking as you:
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Domain E: Human Resources| 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
Women play key roles in the hospitality and meeting industries, but many find it challenging to move into leadership positions. In fact, recent studies show that women are 28% less likely to get an executive-level position even if they possess the skills that make other job applicants attractive candidates for CEO, COO, CMO , and CFO positions. What are the skills necessary to be considered for these types of high-level leadership roles, and how do they translate to the level of leadership you seek for your current and future career?
Learn about the key roles women play in the hospitality and meeting industries and how to overcome career obstacles to executive-level positions—or the right-fit leadership level for you. Review and learn from real-life case studies of women who have overcome adversity to excel in the meetings space, while maintaining the right balance for their personal and professional lives. Examine what skills they possess, the decisions they made and what actions they took to enable their industry leadership.
Analyze your own personal leadership skills using a Clifton StrengthsFinder 2.0 assessment to discover the areas you excel, and where you can fill gaps with future training and advancement. Think about where you want your career and leadership to grow in the next three to five years and create an action and development plan that advances your career, your leadership, and your influence.
You’ll Be Able To:
Domain A: Strategic Planning | 4 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Healthcare meeting professionals on both sides of the marketplace must balance designing and hosting events and quantifiable returns for their organizations with unprecedented and frequent changes in global healthcare compliance and regulations for their companies, their attendees, their destinations, and more. They must tackle tough regulations and adjust and readjust priorities while keeping an eye on short- and long-term survival—a tough job that requires a continuous flow of knowledge.
Invest in your future and your company’s success by participating in MPI’s Healthcare Meeting Compliance Certificate (HMCC) program, which provides a condensed foundation in key healthcare disciplines. Designed for both event strategists and their partners who need a broad understanding of a full range of regulatory topics, this program develops competency groundwork while building critical thinking skills through case studies, business simulation, discussion, and active exercises. This intensive, four-hour educational and training program provides healthcare meeting compliance stakeholders with the knowledge and experience they need to successfully navigate the increasingly complex pharmaceutical, biotech, and medical device regulatory environment.
Upon completion of this program, attendees will earn the HMCC credential signifying awareness of and competence in the latest compliance regulations that impact healthcare meetings and events.
You’ll Be Able To:
Course Preparation:
Domain C: Risk Management | 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Your No. 1 role as a meeting professional isn’t executing on flawless experiences or driving business results for your organization. It’s ensuring the safety and security of the people you have brought together onsite. But if this is your most critical role, how prepared do you feel for stepping into it during a crisis or incident? And do you have the plans in place to ensure that you are successful?
Build and maintain an understanding of the risk management and emergency planning process with this six-hour certificate course, developed in partnership with the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at the University of Southern Mississippi. Discover processes for risk assessment and emergency preparedness, adapted from the best-in-class experts in marathons and World Cups. Deep dive into incident management strategies as needed for the prevention, preparedness, response and recovery from all-hazard emergency incidents. Discover techniques to prevent and respond to everything from ordinary incidents such as fights or drunkenness to extraordinary crimes, violence, terrorist attacks and natural disasters.
Learn how you can ensure the safety and security of all attendees, limit damage and restore services in the event of emergencies. Helping your organization host successful meetings begins with creating events that are safe and secure for all attendees and stakeholders. Give yourself the tools you need to effectively plan for and respond to crisis and deliver on your responsibility to your attendees and your organization.
You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
The MPI MD Advisory Board, and our sponsors, invite you to join our series on medical meetings.
Due to the overwhelming response to our recent webinar on The Future of Medical Meetings, MPI, in conjunction with our sponsors, presents a 4-part series that will cover important topics relevant to the current and future state of medical meetings. Due to the rapidly changing business environment, we are facing, topics will vary based on what’s relevant at the time leading up to each panel discussion. Each session will cover important regulation updates and include Q&A with a panel of global meetings and compliance experts. Each class will end with a summary of global compliance regulations and legal changes that have taken place in the previous quarter.
Each session is worth 1.5 CEU’s and a Certificate of Completion will be awarded to those who attend all 4 sessions.
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Domain I: Marketing | 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
Brands use in-person, digital, and hybrid events to connect to customers. But did you know that these same events are absolute goldmines of customer data that often go unnoticed due to a lack of event marketing strategies?
With MPI’s Event Marketing Strategist certificate program, you’ll understand what it takes to meet brand goals and objectives through events—regardless of the platform. Cvent and MPI have brought together top experts to deliver an unparalleled, four-hour course focused on the purposeful and measurable practice of deploying live and virtual events to achieve brand marketing and revenue goals.
You’ll uncover “the why” behind the choices necessary to achieve objectives, and you’ll start to grow your role from logistician to strategist by delivering impactful attendee experiences that bring systematic returns to your clients’ bottom lines.
Through the program, you’ll learn how to uncover invaluable data that will drive bottom-line results, and your value as a meeting and event professional will skyrocket as a result.
During this Program You’ll Explore:
At the completion of the program You’ll Be Able To:
1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Meetings Outlook & Twine Virtual Networking Event
Join us for a Meetings Outlook update on the future predictions for the business of meetings and a virtual networking event through using the new cutting edge Twine technology. Given the reality of the current pandemic, meeting professionals are finding it nearly impossible to make decisions related to the business of events. What will the conditions look like in the next year? What will the new reality look like? And how are other meeting professionals overcoming current obstacles to grow business? Much is uncertain, but current projections can help. After the Meetings Outlook, we will use Twine to network and continue the conversation on the future business of meetings.
Learner Outcomes:
1. Review the forecast for events in the coming year, including a budget, attendance, and business conditions.
2. Deep dive into trends that matter and discuss the next steps with your peers.
3. Using Twine, we will continue the conversation face to face on how these trends affect you and the future of your meetings.
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Domain G: Meeting or Event Design| 4 clock hours
Cost: $299 Member/ $399 Non-Member
The Spirit of Inclusion goes beyond basic legal compliance to welcoming and embracing the many aspects of diversity and different perspectives that create powerful experiences and environments for problem-solving, innovation and success. Inclusion is the right thing to do … but it also enhances business value and profits for organizations when they send the right messages to audiences and embrace all the ways in which people are different.
MPI’s Inclusive Events Strategist certificate focuses on practical actions that meeting professionals on both sides of the marketplace can take to create inclusive environments at their events. Explore the different dimensions of diversity to ensure the full and respectful participation of all participants and attendees, as well as your role as an inclusion broker for the diverse groups you represent.
Explore recent MPI Foundation research conducted by the New York University Jonathan M. Tisch Center of Hospitality and discover where meeting professionals are excelling in the creation of welcoming environments, and the areas where they could improve in enhancing the experience for diverse groups. Meanwhile, gain access to more than 350 best practices for designing and executing inclusive experiences that embrace all your diverse attendees.
MPI’s focus is not on changing individual beliefs or ideas. Our goal is to explore the topic of inclusion and its relationship to the success of events and to provide strategies and actions that you can take to create inclusive experiences.
You’ll Be Able To:
Domain C: Risk Management | 6 clock hours
Cost: $499 Member/ $699 Non-Member
Your No. 1 role as a meeting professional isn’t executing flawless experiences or driving business results for your organization. It’s ensuring the safety and security of the people you have brought together onsite. But if this is your most critical role, how prepared do you feel for stepping into it during a crisis or incident? And do you have the plans in place to ensure that you are successful?
Build and maintain an understanding of the risk management and emergency planning process with this six-hour certificate course, developed in partnership with the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) at the University of Southern Mississippi. Discover processes for risk assessment and emergency preparedness, adapted from the best-in-class experts in marathons and World Cups. Deep dive into incident management strategies as needed for the prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery from all-hazard emergency incidents. Discover techniques to prevent and respond to everything from ordinary incidents such as fights or drunkenness to extraordinary crimes, violence, terrorist attacks, and natural disasters.
Learn how you can ensure the safety and security of all attendees, limit damage, and restore services in the event of emergencies. Helping your organization host successful meetings begins with creating events that are safe and secure for all attendees and stakeholders. Give yourself the tools you need to effectively plan for and respond to crisis and deliver on your responsibility to your attendees and your organization.
You’ll Be Able To:
6 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Cost: $499 Members/$699 Non-Members
Format: 3-hour lecture | 3-hour workshop
The Event Data Analyst course can best be described as a practitioner’s journey from problem identification to the presentation of recommendations.
As our roles continue to evolve within the meetings industry, becoming more strategic is at the core of our evolution. But what does it mean to be strategic?
Being strategic is not only a critical attribute of leadership but also involves the ongoing practice of making informed decisions, which are based on data, not intuition. As an event strategist, you need the ability to think critically, with a lens that supports overarching goals. You need to be able to extract insights from data and determine the next steps. You need to compare and contrast solutions. You need to form and communicate recommendations in ways stakeholders and executives can easily understand.
At the completion of the program, you'll be able to:
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