Alex Plaxen MTA

Alex Plaxen is the Founder of Little Bird Told Media and current Vice President of Experience Strategy at Nifty Method Marketing & Events. He graduated with a Master’s in Tourism Administration with a focus on event and meeting management from the George Washington University School of Business. Alex is actively involved in leadership roles within the meetings and events industry. Currently, Alex holds the title of a Meetings Mean Business Ambassador and also has the honor of being a 2020-2021 Board Director of Meeting Professionals International Potomac Chapter.

Alex is an international speaker recognized for his expertise in digital communication strategies. He created and teaches the Crisis Communications certificate course for Meeting Professionals International and is one of IAEE's preferred speakers in their Premier Chapter Education Series in 2020.

In addition to his work in the events industry, Alex has been honored locally and internationally as an emerging thought leader. Honors include having been recognized as one of Meetings & Conventions magazine’s Rising Stars of 2019, the recipient of Meeting Professionals International’s RISE Award for Young Professional Achievement in 2018, named to the inaugural BizBash Top 500 People in Events in 2018 and Top 1000 in 2019, and Meetings Today magazine’s 2018 Meetings Trendsetters