PCMA Convene Podcast

A More Charged Environment  As face-to-face events return in full force, organizers and venues are assessing additional new risks, like potential disruptive behavior, that can make their events feel less safe and welcoming. By Michelle Russell, editor in chief at Convene. Additional Resources : ·      Read the September-October issue here: https://www.convene-digital.org/convene/library/item/septe...

Introduction: This season was recorded during Convening EMEA 2023, in Copenhagen, Denmark and hosted by Magdalina Atanassova, Convene’s digital media editor. Guest Information : ·      Laura Caprioli Laura Caprioli is a Growth Programme & Stakeholder Manager at VisitBritain ( www.visitbritain.com ), the UK's national tourism agency. She has a Master of Science degree from Lund University and a...

Welcome to the Convene Podcast!  Convene’s editors spend their days speaking with business events professionals and experts in other areas, as well as researching and poring over content about the business events industry and the larger world of business. Now, in addition to our print and online articles, we want to bring these insights to you in a new format — the Convene Podcast is back with a n...

‘It’s so hard for me to go from being a Northeast-coast, New Yorker/D.C./ Type-A personality, very driven, to say — actually say — working less is going to make me more productive.' – Leigh Stringer, workplace strategist Our annual salary survey, due out June 1, revealed that a lot of you are feeling frazzled. You list stress and lack of work/life balance as the aspects you like least about your j...

“If our conferences become more problem-focused as opposed to more traditional discipline-focused, you’ll see these diverse groups coming together. Which I think is exciting and sort of mind-opening.”  – Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. Listen: http://convenesite.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Convene_Ep10_Dell-Medical-School.mp3 Illustr...

“If you’re going to have people come to a live event, then let’s celebrate their being alive. And asking them to sit silently, passively in the dark for hours at an end is not celebrating their being alive.” — Charlie Melcher Listen:  http://convenesite.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/ConveneEp9.mp3 Intro music composed by David McMillin Charlie Melcher began his career in book publishing,...

“[People] are choosing alternative ways of getting together and doing things. They’re not filtering their lives through the lens of these major social institutions like they used to.” Josh Packard, a sociology professor at the University of Northern Colorado, never expected to be involved with the meetings industry. His research looks at why Americans stop going to church or being involved in othe...

Telecommuting is a good thing for both employees and employers in many ways — including less stress for workers and increased productivity, Kim Elsbach, a professor at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, told Convene Podcast’s Ashley Milne-Tyte. But there are potential downsides for you and your career, she warns, including the risk of fewer promotions and lower performance evaluations com...

Women dominate the meetings industry — yet, as Convene's 2016 Salary Survey revealed, there’s a pay gap between men and women of almost 25 percent. In this podcast, Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Sara Laschever , an author and speaker on women and leadership, who says that some of that disparity may boil down to salary negotiations, which many women find harder to navigate than men do. Even female mee...

Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Brigid Schulte, author of Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One Has the Time, in a conversation inspired by the revelation that nearly 80 percent of the meeting professionals who responded to Convene ‘s annual salary survey didn’t take all of the vacation they earned last year. That’s all too common, Schulte said. In the U.S. “we don’t have a history or culture of...

Illustration by Daniel Chang. “ Now, my dad one time said to me —   he, in fact, he said to me several times — will you be a beekeeper or a keeper of bees?” – – Philip McCabe, president, Apimondia Podcast host Ashley Milne-Tyte talks with Philip McCabe, president of Apimondia, the global body that represents beekeepers, about how the organization's biannual conference plays a unique role in workin...

“ Our corporate head of PR … called me and said, do you really want to get involved in this? And then, at our first town hall, when we introduced the topic, you could physically see people not  wanting to hear what we were sharing. But sometimes out of that level of discomfort comes some of the greatest growth.” —  David Peckinpaugh In this conversation, Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley...

“If you think about conferences as huge hubs of like-minded people, why don’t we ease their job and help them to learn from each other,  if that’s what they need?” — Christine Renaud Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Christine Renaud, CEO of e-180, a tech platform that helps people share expertise one-on-one — including at meetings.  An interview with Renaud also appea...

“ When I think of mindfulness bringing it into our world of events and meetings, it’s about really creating space in the brain for deeper thinking, for driving deeper moments for meaning, for connections, creating some white space in the brain. ” — Janet Sperstad In this conversation, Convene podcast host and journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte talks to Janet Sperstad, CMP, program director for the Meeti...