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NEWS AND NOTES FOR THE MEETINGS AND CONVENTIONS INDUSTRY
Booked Up Write your own
story in the Gertrude Stein
Suite, p. 22.
ON THE WEB
› Download a free
copy of Mindful
Meeting Design, a
white paper by Janet
Sperstad, at psav.com/
mindfuleventdesign.
› Listen to “Can Mindfulness Improve Your
Meetings?,” a Convene
Podcast episode
featuring Janet Sperstad, at convn.org/
mindfulness-podcast.
New Research Considers
Human-Centered Meeting Design
“At the end of the day,” according to Janet Sperstad, CMP, “we’re all human.”
That observation is at the heart of a new study that Sperstad, program
director of the meeting and event management degree at Madison
College, is writing with Amanda Cecil, Ph.D., CMP, associate professor and
chair of Indiana University’s School of Physical Education and Tourism
Management. Titled “Purposeful Meetings: How to Plan With Deeper
Meaning, Innovation, and Insight in Mind,” the multidisciplinary study
is intended to move the strategic conversation about meetings beyond
financial ROI and learner outcomes, according to a survey Sperstad and
Cecil sent out, and to “the elements of a meeting experience that impact
human behavior and leverage the experience to influence decision-making, create moments of meaning and insight, and inspire creativity.” ›
