While many meeting professionals feel there’s ample, available education to help future-proof their careers, the situation isn’t as straightforward as many hope.

From seeking feedback from family and friends to staying calm under pressure to cultivating your network, here are the skills required for success going forward in the meetings and events industry.

Meetings Today reached out to a variety of meetings and hospitality leaders to get their take on whether there is an industry brain drain, and how to ensure the talent pipeline keeps flowing.

The meetings and events industry is similar to every other industry when it comes to adapting to a radically shifting work environment stemming from the pandemic. Futurist Scott Steinberg details some of these macro workplace trends that will impact how we interact and our expectations of employers.

The skills needed for success as a meeting planner are quickly becoming core elements in the colleges and universities that are building the next generation of meeting professionals. Here is what meeting planners in the future will need to know, from the perspective of five leading professors of meetings and hospitality programs. 

Meetings Today’s new Future Skills eHandbook, produced in partnership with MPI, provides the essential skills meeting professionals need to master to stay relevant, from technology and hybrid meetings to analytics and cross-discipline communication and strategy.

Meetings and incentives industry veteran Eric Rozenberg embarked on a major podcast mission during the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are seven lessons about the industry, entrepreneurship and business in general from the experts he interviewed.

Organizations valuing Diversity, Equity & Inclusion have increasingly addressed demands to respond with a zero-tolerance policy toward racial injustice, workplace inequities and discriminatory legislation.

Senior contributor Jeff Heilman speaks with Monique Ruff-Bell about career tips for event professionals and her new Everyday Career Coach video series.