Friday, August 29, 2008

September 24th Meeting with Joan Eisenstodt!

Hello Everyone!

The Greater Philadelphia Chapter of PCMA is pleased to have Joan Eisenstodt as our speaker for the upcoming meeting on September24, 2008 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center!

STUDENTS: Joan Eisenstodt, a widely-recognized and knowledgable industry leader, has asked to meet with any students who will be in attendance at this meeting. She is a wonderful resource for members of our industry, and is a huge supporter of Students in PCMA.

If you would like to attend, please email gppcma@comcast.net . If you are a student and would like to attend, but will not have transportation, please let us know!

Agenda:
11:30 - Registration
12 noon - Lunch and opening remarks
12:30pm-1:30 - Program

Location:The Pennsylvania Convention Center
1101 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
215-418-4700

MEETING SYNOPSIS:
Meetings Beyond Logistics: The Art Science of Learning at Meetings.

How do you know when your attendees gained the most out of the meeting? Was the educational aspect well received and understood? Did the program deliver a high and positive return on investment for the attendee's time?

Joan Eisenstodt will be with us to talk about "Meetings Beyond Logistics: The Art Science of Learning at Meetings". In this interactive session discover your own learning style, preferences, and explore the different ways in which education can be delivered at meetings and conferences. Through exercises and experiences, learn how to spice up the learning at your own meetings. For the suppliers among the audience, learn how to be consultative to your clients in their use of space and room sets, adding value to your services. Joan will helps us to gain a better understanding of how to use these tools to better select sites, prepare speakers and ensure return on participants' time.

Joan brings more than 30 years of experience to her work. She founded Eisenstodt Associates, a Washington, DC-based conference and hospitality consulting, facilitation and training company in 1981. She works with corporations, associations, professional societies, foundations, hotel companies and CVBs to facilitate and design meetings, negotiate contracts, and provides training. Active in PCMA since the mid '80s, and other industry and non-industry associations, Joan's passions for life-long learning and meeting excellence have been well-recognized: she was one of the first four recipients of HSMAI's Pacesetter Award, of IACC's prestigious Pyramid Award, "Planner of the Year" by MPI, inducted into the CIC Hall of Leaders, and most recently PCMA presented Joan with a life-time achievement as an educator honor.

1 comment:

Joan Eisenstodt said...

Belinda - thanks! If there are students who want to meet before or after the session, let me know. I think my train return is such that I can stay a bit .. and I'll be glad to come to the Center early if you'd like. Just let me know. --Joan