Michael is a Project Management consultant at MJN Solutions with many years’ experience at Microsoft and shares with Varvid’s Aaron Booker how he is excited about becoming MPI’s Washington State Chapter President next year and the opportunities being involved with MPI has afforded him. Michael looks forward to being able to sustain and grow the benefits of MPI to its membership base in the year ahead.
Krista Reasoner, Corporate Event Planner for GE Healthcare in Seattle and MPI Chair of Next Year’s MPI Industry Summit speaks with Varvid’s Aaron Booker on the success of this year’s event. Krista said the laughs generated by the speakers indicated that the topics were hitting home with the audience.
Varvid’s Aaron Booker speaks with 8th Annual Meetings Industry Summit keynote speaker, executive coach, consultant, president of Leading Principles and author Noah Blumenthal. Noah talks about his new book “Be The Hero” which has become a national best-seller, and some of the success his customers and readers have experienced reading this book.
National Sales Manager Sam Samuelson for the Tulalip Resort Casino north of Seattle shares his enthusiasm having just watched Noah Blumenthal’s “Be a Hero” keynote speech at the 8th Annual Meetings Industry Summit held recently in Seattle. Sam is speaking with Aaron Booker of Varvid.com.
Matt Youngquist, a Career Coach in the Seattle area with Career Horizons talks with Aaron Booker of Varvid.com about two break out sessions Matt lead on the ins and outs of Linked In. Matt has used Linked In for many years and enjoys taking both new and experienced users through this powerful business relationship management tool.
Eric Osborne, Sales Manager for Stewart Transportation Solutions, an event and convention ground transportation company talks with Varvid’s Aaron Booker. Eric is very enthusiastic about MPI events. Keeping industry peers in touch with one another, as well as learning things from event speakers such as Deborah Sexton of Professional Convention Management and Noah Blumenthal of Leading Principles increases professional confidence by generating a feeling of being in touch with your industry.
Varvid’s Aaron Booker speaks with Cayrl Sutorius, Director of Sales and Marketing for RealTime Productions, and VP of Education for MPIWSC. Caryl points out that the way to get the most out of organizations like MPI are to get involved and leverage the professional networking and educational opportunities that organizations like MPI can provide its members.
Aaron Booker from Varvid has a chat with Emmy Jordan, the Senior Vice President of Membership and Business Development at the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. She works with small business members that are about 82% of their membership by setting up meetings like The Smart and Simple Solutions Conference for Small Business. They partnered with Microsoft to present to conference. She talks about the various panels on financing, branding, solutions and more that are presented at the event.
We took some photos at the 2nd Annual Smart & Simple Strategies for Small Business Conference. It was held at the Microsoft Conference Center in Redmond but was a joint venture of the Seattle Chamber and Microsoft. Great event! The Eastside Business Journal did a very nice summary of the event.
