December Educational Program

1:30pm – 2:30pm – Board of Directors Meeting
3:00pm – 4:30pm – Announcements and Education Program

DEI: Is it Your Business?
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion has been on the forefront of every sector in the world of business and 2020 has added some heat. In this session you will be able to:

• Evaluate: recognize when your organization needs DEI help and how to elevate your voice at any level.
• Realize: discover how to strategically evolve from ally to accomplice.
• Activate: actuate best practices and tactics for championing DEI within your organizations.

The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Events Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS Domain:TBA

Board Members from The Colorado Event Alliance (CEA) will join us for an additional 15 minutes to give our members an opportunity to learn about this newly formed non-profit, how to get involved, and about their mission.. to shine a ray of hope to frontline workers in the Colorado event industry, through monetary donations, advocacy and hands-on support. See https://www.coeventalliance.org/ for more information on CEA.

Speaker Bio
Antwone Stigall is an award-winning event professional who you seek when you know it's time to scale your event and meeting experiences in a manner that's inclusive both in-person and virtually. With his incomparable passion for business event strategy, indisputable creativity, and tech-savviness, Antwone is an event maven to be reckoned with. Occupying roles such as chapter leader for MPI, founding chair of the MPI Global Diversity & Inclusion Committee, Instructor & Facilitator of the Inclusive Event Design Strategist Certificate Program, and owner of the Black Meeting & Event Professionals Group - it's safe to say that Antwone is all in when it comes to the advancement of the meetings and events industry.

Members: $15
Non-members: $25

MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter is a CMP Preferred Provider. The use of the CMP Preferred Provider Pre-Check logo is not an endorsement by the Event Industry Council of the quality of the session. This logo means that this session has met the criteria to be pre-approved for CMP certification credit. – CMP-IS DomainTBA This events attendance roster will be uploaded to the EIC for CE credits tracking (if applicable).If you do not have a EIC account, you can create one atwww.eventscouncil.org In order for these records to be accepted by EIC, the email used for registration MUST match (case sensitive) the email provided to the EIC for your account.