We’re 3 weeks away from the final Sustainable Event Strategist course of 2021 on Thursday, Sept. 9. In this 4-hour online certificate course, you’ll discover how to view the event planning process through the lens of sustainability. You’ll learn tactical
The next presentation of the Sustainable Event Strategist course from MPI Academy (and taught by yours truly) is Thursday, April 22… which also happens to be Earth Day! What better way to celebrate than to deepen your sustainability knowledge? Earn
One of the most common questions I’m asked is, “How did you get into doing this kind of work?” Professors often ask me to speak to their classes or send their students my way to interview me about creating a
In my blog post Can Events Be Sustainable In a Post-Pandemic World?, I talked about the many ways event planners can continue to follow green practices in a safe and sanitary way. But now that you know you can
I’ve been going back and forth for a couple of weeks about whether or not to make a statement about the uprising for racial justice. As I saw statements roll out from brand after brand with varying degrees of sincerity,
I have two confessions to make. First, I’m a secret event judger. You probably already suspected this about me, and yes, it’s true. When I’m an attendee at a conference or banquet, I spend my downtime silently evaluating how sustainable
By now, we’ve all seen the tragic images from the Australia bush fires: koalas wearing bandages on their burned hands, kangaroos silhouetted against a backdrop of flames. My mind can’t begin to fathom what it means to have lost one
Because of the nature of my business, you may have already assumed that I believe in human-caused climate change. Until this point, I’ve avoided talking much about climate change on my blog and social media, because I want to avoid
Do you ever wonder what it really means for an event to be sustainable? To help answer this question, the Events Industry Council recently released new Principles for Sustainable Events. These principles are based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals,
What’s your number one business goal for 2019? Win new clients? Increase revenue? Earn repeat business? If you have a goal of growing your business this year, I have a recommendation for you that probably sounds counter-intuitive: make sustainability part