Connect Your Meetings

APRIL 29, 2019

How I got here: When our youngest went off to college, I was approached by the Baylor College of Medicine to manage medical meetings for various departments. After seven years, I left to start my own independent meeting planning company in 1986, which was rare at that time.

2019 40

2019 Medical Meetings Hotels Meeting Planning 40

PCMA Convene

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

No meeting, destination, or even project is ever the same. I love how meeting planning involves finance, protocol, HR, international affairs, logistics, and other disciplines. I love pulling a plan together and watching it be executed — coming up with an idea and seeing the completed product. .

Contracts 59

Contracts Travel Medical Meetings Education 59

SmartMeetings

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I truly love working with course directors of medical meetings, knowing that we help train thousands to impact the lives of millions by helping clients create memorable events. What I love about my job: I love the fast-paced environment in that nothing ever stays the same.

2017 74

2017 Sports Medical Meetings Hotels 74

SmartMeetings

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Hunt took it a step further saying she doesn’t even like to be called a planner, that what she and Mack do goes well beyond planning. Between medical meetings and mega-computer trade shows, their collective experiences help a variety of businesses stage critical, and fun, events around the globe.

Trade Shows 40

Trade Shows Medical Meetings Contracts Hotels 40

SmartMeetings

JULY 12, 2016

With an astounding 85,300 Twitter followers, Issa shares tourism, events/meetings industry, and American Express Meetings & Events updates. Jouaneh, is a meetings expert who regularly contributes to Smart Meetings news. He was also a featured writer in our January issue with a technology column on mobile strategies.

Trade Shows 40

Trade Shows Social Media Medical Meetings Tech 40

SmartMeetings

JULY 31, 2020

Faced with a haze of uncertainty, the meeting planner has to make the “go” and “how to go” decisions, but the responsibility to do the right thing is shared by venue, community and guest alike. How to craft a code that protects everyone. The definition of safety is always relative.

Meetings 85

Meetings Venues Hotels Sports 85

PCMA Convene

JANUARY 3, 2017

It was this moment where I realized that experiences in meetings can have an impact on attendees, and reshaped how I viewed my career. At some point, I would like to branch out in my career and experience what meeting planning is like in the private sector. Meeting planning is very exciting because of the variety it offers.

2017 69

2017 Education Hospitality Meetings 69

PCMA Convene

JULY 31, 2016

For decades, membership in PCMA had been a closed circle, limited to medical-meeting professionals. Outside of medical meetings, “those [organizations] that were going to have a meeting, instead of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland [putting on a show], it was the new secretary in the department.

2012 56

2012 Food and Beverage 2013 2009 56