More than 2,000 entrepreneurs, small business owners and independent meeting and event professionals are members of MPI. No matter what stage of your career, the ISBO Community offers a vibrant array of education and peer-to-peer resources.
Looking for more information about how to join the Independent & Small Business Owners community? Connect, chat, and brainstorm with your peers by requesting to join their community forum here.
1 Clock Hour | Domain B: Project Management
As we return full-force face-to-face we have to consider the new needs of participants. Having spent the last year hosting events on two continents, there are many shareable takeaways that will be brought forward in this session.
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand the next business day. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
We may be used to reading and hearing "we're ADA compliant" as the response to inquiries about accessibility and disability inclusion. Compliance is the bare minimum and is actually the starting block, not the final goal. Compliance doesn't mean you've optimized the human experience for an equitable experience. Let's review some things that you may have learned during May, and more specifically around Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) 2022.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources
Diversity, enlarging your circle, inclusion, what does that all mean and how do you implement it in your professional career and personal life? Join Justin Jones-Fosu as he takes an unconventional approach to this necessary conversation. Shift your focus away from the cliched overuse to applying everyday diversity that leads to deeper collaboration and innovation. Justin demonstrates how we can leverage the power of listening, appreciating and applying different perspectives to create sustainable cultures of high-performance. Justin will cover practical strategies you can implement to enlarge your circle and move confrontations into conversations in order to manage disagreements and differences in a healthy and respectful way.
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This program is perfect for ALL. New, seasoned, senior leadership, everyone has room to grow, and everyone plays a role in creating an inclusive workplace.
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain E: Human Resources
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand within 72 hours. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
If you got it, flaunt it! Too often "showing off" is seen as negative, but in today's world you need to be proud of your accomplishments. That means if you're verified, have a certificate, took a class or course, you need to let the world know. You can't stand out if you're not showing off. Join the MPI Certificate Course pros, Dani Kloap and Nancy Snowden, as they introduce MPI Academy's new certificate course badges. You're verified and we want you to show it!
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1 Clock Hour | Domain B: Project Management
Your conference is only as good as your content. Your presenters provide the pull to attend, live engagement, and valuable takeaways that bring audiences back again and again. Recent research suggests only the conferences perceived as the highest quality and more worthwhile will continue to thrive as physical or hybrid events. What can you do to give every community member good reasons to attend your events?
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand the next business day. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
We all build our meetings and events to bring people together. What happens when we are unaware of the barriers that disabled people face every day? Learn how to start affecting disability-inclusive change in your organization and show your commitment to DEI.
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain E: Human Resources
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand the next business day. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
The Freelance Marketplace has long played an integral role in the Meetings Industry. As Corporate Event Teams and 3rd Party Agencies work to rebuild, the value of our industry's gig economy is now greater than ever. The Great Resignation has seen 5 million people leave the labor force since the dawn of the pandemic. How can your team efficiently reconfigure with live meeting volumes increasing by the day? How can freelance Meeting Planners best market themselves and capitalize on their talents? This session will invite interaction as we talk about how to best leverage a variable workforce in ramping up after the pandemic, from the perspectives of both Corporate Event Teams and the working freelancer.
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand within 72-hours. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
Attendees will learn about the speaker industry, from bureaus and speaker management companies, to how to streamline the speaker selection process.
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0.5 Clock Hours | Domain G: Meeting or Event Design
Join us for the 30-Minute Monday series where a subject matter expert and moderator sit down for a hard-hitting, jam-packed 30-minute conversation about the topics you need to know to start your week. No slides, no long lectures, just facts, tips, and tricks to help you take your events and business to the next level. Can’t make it? 30-Minute Monday will be available on-demand within 72-hours. Check out our new 30-Minute Mondays tab under “Digital Education” at academy.mpi.org to access.
Attendees will learn about the speaker industry, from bureaus and speaker management companies, to how to streamline the speaker selection process.
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1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management
The meeting and event industry is restarting, and meeting professionals are now putting forth RFP’s, site inspections, and organizing current and future events. How are you incorporating risk mitigation into the services you provide?
The MPI Academy has dedicated this one-hour presentation to refreshing your meeting risk mitigation skill set. This presentation will cover:
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