by Lori Gershaw | May 21, 2015 | Archived Posts, Small Business
I was recently given the honor of speaking at the African Women’s Entrepreneurship Program at the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. AWEP is a U.S. Department of State initiative started in 2010 to help support women entrepreneurs in sub-Saharan Africa. In front of an...
by Lori Gershaw | Jul 24, 2014 | Archived Posts, Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
It’s hard listening to the news these days with everything going on in the world. As a meeting planner, my heart goes out to the people traveling to the AIDS Conference on the downed Malaysia Airlines flight. I’ve certainly handled my share of emergency situations...
by Lori Gershaw | Jul 14, 2014 | Archived Posts, Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, Vendors
As Independent Meeting Planners, we’ve all had to hire vendors. But how do we know they’re any good? Just taking their word for it may get us more than we bargained for, so we ask for references. Whether they are a caterer, an on-site staffing agency, an...
by Lori Gershaw | Mar 5, 2014 | Archived Posts, Independent Meeting Planners, Meeting Planning, On-Site Management
You’ve sent your resume out to thousands of employers, been on hundreds of interviews, and still no job offers, why?? Must be the economy, right? Maybe not. Yes, there may be a lot of competition out there, but there’s only one you. Let’s stop blaming everyone else...
by Lori Gershaw | Feb 3, 2014 | Archived Posts, Meeting Planning
By Lori Gershaw and Tammy Penkalski “What? You want me to plan 100 pharmaceutical dinner meetings, and it’s a nationwide satellite broadcast which means all of them will occur simultaneously on one night, and you’re giving me only 12 weeks to do it? Are you crazy??”...
