Speaker(s): Kelli Jaecks, MA, RDH

1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources 

Self-care is as important as oxygen. While companies are working hard to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced, overstressed world, and authenticity is valued in the workplace - many employees are burned out, stressed out, and maxed-out. This results in low employee morale, and decreased performance - the opposite of what a thriving, successful business wants. How can one be true and authentic when they are exhausted? We strive to meet workplace goals and demands, at the expense of our own personal wellness. What if we spin this practice on its head?

My own physical and mental well-being first. Place the oxygen mask on myself first.

Why? So I am operating at my fullest potential, and benefitting the bottom line.

By incorporating simple, self-care strategies into our lives, we can slay workplace burnout and rejuvenate our sense of purpose. The simple truth is this: caring for yourself will allow you to show up as your best self at work and at home.

This fast-paced, webinar attendees will be empowered to reignite their self-care practices, allowing them to show up as their authentic selves and contribute to positive workplace culture.

Learner Outcomes: 

• Investigate simple, positive changes to increase your physical and mental health
• Evaluate effective stress management techniques
• Discover simple lifestyle changes to increase your overall wellness and workplace satisfaction

Speaker(s): Everett J. Mitchell

1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources 

As many meeting professionals are actively job searching, it’s important to set yourself apart from the competition. In this webinar, you learn best practices, tips, and tricks to increase your likelihood of landing a job. If you are competing for a job in the industry, or need to temporarily pivot to another industry, you will learn what hard, technical, and soft skills you have developed are transferable to other jobs.

Learning Objectives: 

• Learn how to capture these skills in resumes and cover letters to grab an employers’ attention. 
• Gain valuable insight into how technology has changed the way that companies evaluate resumes.
• Explore the best websites to find jobs in your community.
  

Speaker(s): Meg Fasy

1 Clock Hour | Domain I: Marketing

This webinar will explore how to create a sponsorship strategy that will generate revenue through sponsorships, partnership and other sales opportunities through in-person & digital events. Learn best practices and innovative ideas on how to maximize your sponsorship dollars to deliver an amazing event, whether it be in-person or digital. We will share numerous sponsorship examples that you can incorporate.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how to build a robust sponsorship strategy that will generate revenue.
• Learn how to increase sponsors, grow revenue and escalate attendee experience.
• Discover new ways to monetize digital events.

Speaker(s): Michael Bush | Colleen M Connor, CMP | Thomas Egan | Amy Ledoux, CAE, CMP | Lori Pugh Marcum, CMP, CMM, HMCC, CED | Elizabeth Sage, MBA, CMP | Mike Walsh | Michelle Robinson, CMP

3 Clock Hours | Domain A: Strategic Planning

Summit Schedule:

• 11-11:10 A.M. CST : Welcome & Introductions
  
• 11:10-11:40 A.M. CST: Mike Walsh | New Rules for a New World
• 11:40-11:50 A.M. CST: Q&A Session
• 11:50-12:00 P.M. CST: MPI Updates
• 12:00-1:00 P.M. CST: Navigating the New Normal | Planner Panel
  
• 1:00-1:15 P.M. CST: Q&A Session
• 1:15-1:45 P.M. CST: Michael Bush | Future Transformation Requires Innovation NOW
• 1:45-2:00 P.M. CST: Q&A Session
  
• 2:00-2:15 P.M. CST: MPI Wrap Up & Closing

Session 1 | New Rules for a New World

Speaker: Mike Walsh

COVID-19 is not only changing our way of life, it will hasten the arrival of a radical new future of work. Remote work around the globe is just the start of a much bigger transformation set to reshape the nature of business itself. In order to survive, every organization will have to virtualize. Whether it be serving customers through digital channels or leveraging AI, algorithms and automation to ensure business continuity - we are likely to experience in the next twelve months, a decade's worth of change.

Mike Walsh's inspiring new keynote presentation will offer audiences an insight into the organizations and leaders that are successfully navigating this period of change, and how to create a playbook for their own transformation. Becoming future-proof is more than just about getting through the current crisis - it is about being ready for the new world that awaits us on the other side.

Session 2 | Planner Panel

Speaker(s): Michelle Robinson, Amy Ledoux, Colleen M. Connor, Elizabeth Sage, Tom Egan 

Join us for a conversation moderated by Michelle Robinson, Senior Meeting Planner, Meeting & Travel Services for Nestlé Purina PetCare Company about how planners are moving forward with their events in the near term. Learn how leaders in the association, finance and bioscience sectors are adjusting their plans, realigning resources and communicating value. Hear about their strategy to deliver the best experience whether that is through virtual, hybrid, or in-person events. You will also have the ability to ask your questions on how these
professionals are reimagining the future.

Session 3 | Future Transformation Requires Innovation NOW

Speaker: Michael Bush

Michael C. Bush, CEO of Great Place to Work will talk about purpose-driven leadership while sharing current insights into the best people practices from his 10,000 customers including some of the biggest brands in the world. Michael believes the new reasons for people to convene will create new opportunities that will truly re-define an “event" as we know it. One to one connections will be critical to building trust in a physically distributed world. Future-state physical meetings will be the essential way to build NEW trusting relationships and they will depend on the delivery of a solid foundation for trust. Virtual meetings will serve to educate, inspire and DEEPEN existing relationships. The ability to do both the NEW and the DEEPENing of relationships will expand market

Learning Outcomes:

• You will learn what the Best Companies in the world will be focusing on when gathering their people in late 2020 and 2021.
• You will learn what communication means to executives now in terms of frequency, content and purpose.
• You will learn how your own transformation will enable you to address this new market opportunity.

This Summit is Graciously Sponsored by:

Speaker(s): Tim Shurr

Not for Clock Hour Credit 

Anxiety was increasing around the country prior to COVID-19. Now it's at an all-time high. While others cope with unhealthy crutches, you’ll discover how to seize this golden opportunity, turn fear into freedom, and ignite productivity! During this fun, interactive webinar, you’ll acquire three easy-to-apply strategies for quickly lowering stress, jumpstarting momentum, and using this unprecedented time in our history to your advantage!

Learner Outcomes:

1. Use “emotional recipes” to shift from fear to freedom & procrastination to motivation!

2. Discover the 5 levels of subconscious communication to avoid self-sabotage and seize
opportunities!

3. Acquire “mind tools” for boosting focus, productivity, and momentum in any environment!

Speaker(s): Heather Mason

1 Clock Hour | Domain C: Risk Management

Waiting till a crisis such as COVID-19 to determine the risk management plan is too late. It needs to be written ahead of time, with robust mitigation and contingency plans, as well as contain proper insurance cover. All contracts should cover Force Majeure, cancellation/postponement options, attrition and third party vendor protection. This keeps the organization’s reputation and everyone's safety at a forefront whilst being adequately prepared. Heather has dealt with every unimaginable situation from volcano eruptions, to a hotel on fire, a hotel wanting to walk her client’s conference, speakers not showing. In the wake of COVID-19 cancellations, Heather has saved her clients over 1.5 million dollars and even negotiated a client's conference to have an open postponement clause for two years.

Learner Outcomes:

1. To identify key contract clauses, such as Force Majeure, cancellation/postponement options, attrition and how to leverage and maximize them in the era of Covid-19, including creative MOUs

2. Understand how to create a matrix to weight risks and ensure right resources to right size risk, as well as buy-in from stakeholders

3. Be prepared to create contingency plans and secure proper insurance cover for risk

Speaker(s): Doc Hendley

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) trend as it relates to meetings and events is continuing to grow exponentially. In this session, we will take a look at why it’s important to have quality CSR options for each client, with authentic measurable impacts both locally and globally. I will be using the Wine To Water Filter Build as an example of a program that has a measurable lasting impact both locally and globally.

Learner Outcomes

1. Importance of doing good for your business, clients, partners, and brand. It matters in today's market.
2. Ordinary people can do extraordinary things, wherever you come from whatever you do- we all have the opportunity and the moment to touch someone’s life. Through the filter build experience, you can make an impact and support life and dignity through the power of clean water.
3. It only takes a moment to make a ripple, creating a meaningful experience with high impact.

Speaker(s): Courtney Stanley

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

You cannot control what curveballs are thrown your way, but you can control your response. As our industry faces unprecedented times of turbulence, you may be experiencing a variety of financial, mental and emotional hardships that you have never navigated before. Feeling lost or even paralyzed is completely normal, but it’s important to recognize that there is a unique opportunity to have the most tremendous professional and personal comeback you could have ever imagined. Great things never come from your comfort zone. Join me in learning how to practice a servanthood sales strategy, rebrand your professional persona, and accomplish your goals, one day at a time.

Learner Outcomes:

1. Understand what a servanthood sales strategy is and how to apply it to your business. 
2. Learn how to rebrand your professional reputation using digital communication tactics.
3. Leverage tools that will help you to stay motivated and accomplish your goals.

Speaker(s): Marc Saltzman

1 Clock Hour | Domain E: Human Resources

The Idea Hunter is excited to bring Marc Saltzman to your screens to enlighten you on the future of work. This session will also infuse virtual entertainment because “We Don’t Do Ordinary; and we don’t think you should either.”

Marc says, “It might have taken a tragic event like the global coronavirus pandemic to give hundreds of millions of workers a taste of what it’s like to work from home,” but when the world goes back to normal, this leader shares why 98 percent of those surveyed (by PC Mag) say they’d prefer to work from home long-term. Marc covers the pros and cons of remote working -- for the employee, employer, and environment – and tips to succeeding.

Participants in this session will ...

1. Learn invaluable productivity tips to successfully work from home

2. For those who want to continue to WFH post COVID-19, here is how to position it to the Powers That Be

3. Get a taste of what the physical and virtual fusion will look like 10 years from now

Sponsored By: The Idea Hunter 

Trend Setters in Corporate Events; Creating Human Connection and experiences.

We are an Entertainment Production & Event management company with a vision to transform event experiences. At The Idea Hunter “WE DON’T DO ORDINARY.” Our desire to break boundaries and create what matters is what sets us apart from the rest. With our roster of exclusive entertainment and creative collaborations, we are ready to elevate your next operate event. While our foundation was established in Toronto, our ideas travel across Canada, the United States and beyond.

Speaker(s): Yoram Solomon, Author, The Book of Trust

1 Clock Hour | Domain A: Strategic Planning

The global Covid-19 pandemic turned us to work remotely overnight, even if some of us were not prepared for that. Using his research and experience, Dr. Yoram Solomon, the author of The Book of Trust, Culture starts with YOU, not your Boss, and 11 other books will give you specific ideas and tips that will increase your leadership effectiveness and teamwork productivity, when working remotely. He managed international teams and conducted research on the effectiveness and productivity of teamwork in all environments. In this session, he will first set the foundation to the understanding of the link between trust and effective and productive leadership and teamwork. The bulk of the session will focus on tangible and measurable actions you could take immediately in the areas of communications, information sharing, interactions, empathy, dealing with customers, and more. Those tips are easy to implement, and will measurably increase your leadership effectiveness, team productivity, and customer and vendor retention.

As a result of this session you will be able to ...

1. Understand the relationship between trust and effective and productive teamwork

2. Understand the impact of virtual team leadership on trust

3. Apply the 7 laws and 6 components of trust to virtual teamwork

4. Create a checklist of actions that will measurably increase your leadership effectiveness, team productivity, and customer and vendor retention.