October 22, 2026
In 2026 the RMPCMA & MPIRMC Dynamic Duo Event is all about YOU!
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November 5, 2026
THREE ERA STYLES. ONE EVENING, WOVEN TOGETHER.
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MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter
The MPI Rocky Mountain chapter strives to provide its 300+ members across the meetings and events community with relevant education, networking opportunities and business exchanges. Founded in 1973, MPIRMC was MPI’s first recognized chapter, and today it remains a leader in the development of unique member programming and events.
When you join MPIRMC, you become part of an organization dedicated to your personal and career success. You’ll connect with the innovative learning, passionate people and big ideas that will empower you to become an agent of change and reinvent the world.
MPI Vision Statement: Lead the business events community in changing the world.
MPI Mission Statement: Be the premiere, inclusive business events association for professional development.
Key Words: Innovate, Educate and Connect
October Dynamic Duo with PCMA
End the evening with food, fun and some drinks while you connect with those around you.
Beyond the Keynote: Creating Greater Speaker Impact Across the Entire Event Experience, Including a Speaker Showcase
- 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM - New Member Orientation & Registration
- 3:30 PM – 3:50 PM - MPI RMC & PCMA Announcements
- 3:50 PM – 4:10 PM - Speaker: Jasmine Rice
- Session Title: Beyond the Keynote: Creating Greater Speaker Impact Across the Entire Event Experience
- 4:10 PM – 4:15 PM - Transition to Breakout #1
- 4:15 PM – 4:40 PM - Speaker Showcase Breakout Sessions (Attendees select one)
- Breakout Session Title #1
- Breaking Through to Leadership: Creating a Champion Mindset in the Workplace
- Speaker: Chris Natzke
- Breakout Session Title #2
- Staying Calm, Clear & Strategic Under Pressure
- Speaker: Linda Galambos
- Breakout Session Title #1
- 4:40 PM – 4:45 PM - Transition to Session #2
- 4:45 PM – 5:10 PM - Speaker Showcase Breakout Sessions (Attendees select one)
- Breakout Session Title #3
- Company Culture with a Twist: Simple Stress Management Tools that Actually Stick
- Speaker: Dr. Renee Cohn Jones
- Breakout Session Title #4
- Own Your Zone - How To Lead, Adapt, And Perform At Your Best In The Moments That Count
- Speaker: Jeff Salzenstein
- Breakout Session Title #3
- 5:10 PM – 7:00 PM: Happy Hour and Networking
Speakers
Beyond the Keynote: Creating Greater Speaker Impact Across the Entire Event Experience Speaker: Jasmine Rice A great keynote can be one of the most memorable moments of a conference, but the success of that keynote depends on far more than the person standing on stage. From speaker selection and preparation to AV, staging, room design, production, attendee engagement and post-event follow-up, dozens of decisions influence whether a speaker’s message truly connects with an audience and supports the goals of the event. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience producing events and working with professional speakers, Jasmine Rice will take attendees behind the scenes of what makes a speaker engagement work. This session will explore how planners and event partners can think more strategically about the entire speaker experience—from choosing the right person for the room to creating the conditions that allow their message to have the greatest possible impact. Attendees will learn how to select speakers based on event objectives rather than popularity, prepare speakers to better understand the audience and organization, recognize how production and room decisions influence engagement, and create stronger collaboration between speakers, planners and event partners. The session will also examine ways to extend a speaker’s message beyond the keynote itself, increasing attendee engagement and helping organizations get greater value from their investment. For meeting professionals, the session provides a practical framework for making better speaker decisions and maximizing speaker ROI. For event suppliers and partners, it offers a deeper understanding of how their work contributes to the speaker experience and gives them new opportunities to bring strategic value to their clients.
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Breaking Through to Leadership: Creating a Champion Mindset in the Workplace Speaker: Chris Natzke Today’s workplace demands more than management—it requires leaders who can create clarity, navigate challenges, inspire action, and bring out the best in the people around them. In Breaking Through to Leadership: Creating a Champion Mindset in the Workplace, leadership and breakthrough expert, best-selling author, and former U.S. National Taekwondo Champion Chris Natzke draws upon more than five decades in the martial arts, championship competition, corporate leadership, and executive coaching to reveal what it truly means to lead with the Mind of a Champion. Through engaging stories, practical strategies, and interactive reflection, participants will explore Chris’s proven leadership principles of Purposeful Vision, Conscious Persistence, and Inspired Action. They’ll discover how to move beyond limiting beliefs and reactive leadership, communicate a compelling vision, remain centered and resilient through challenges, and turn intention into meaningful action. Participants will leave with practical tools they can immediately apply to strengthen their own leadership, positively influence workplace culture, and create greater purpose, performance, and impact—both personally and professionally.
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Staying Calm, Clear & Strategic Under Pressure Negotiation and risk decisions are often treated as purely logical exercises, but the people making those decisions are anything but emotionless. Stress, urgency, fear of loss, and pressure can influence how we communicate, what we concede, and how accurately we evaluate risk. Drawing from her work in neuroscience, emotional regulation, and decision-making, Linda Galambos explores what happens in the brain during high-pressure conversations and consequential business decisions. She helps participants recognize when stress is affecting their judgment, understand how emotional reactions can shape behavior, and use practical strategies to stay clear, composed, and intentional when the stakes are high. Attendees will leave with tools to approach difficult negotiations with greater clarity, make more thoughtful risk decisions, and avoid reactive choices that can create costly consequences later.
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Company Culture with a Twist: Simple Stress Management Tools that Actually Stick Ready for a wellness session that doesn’t feel like a wellness session? Join Dr. Renee Cohn Jones for a participatory, joy-filled experience that blends psychology, humor, and balloon twisting to teach stress management tools you’ll actually remember. Expect laughter, insight, and practical tricks you can use immediately to reduce overwhelm, boost connection, and bring more ease into your work and daily life. It is a moment of joy you will be talking about long after the conference.
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 Own Your Zone - How To Lead, Adapt, And Perform At Your Best In The Moments That Count Pressure. Stress. Deadlines. Distractions. For high performers, leaders, teams, and organizations these challenges aren't going away. They're increasing and we're expected to stay on our A-game in every role we play, personally and professionally. What if leaders commit to living and working like elite athletes skilled at staying calm and focused under pressure, and resilient through setbacks? Excellence isn't measured by high output alone. It's about building the capacity to perform under pressure without burning out. In an uncertain future, more grind and hustle is not the answer. The solution is better fundamentals: simple, powerful practices to restore the body, rewire the mind, and reconnect the heart. Neuroscience and performance psychology show these skills are trainable, and elite performers prove it every day. The Own Your Zone framework delivers exactly that. This system brings elite level performance insight, techniques, strategies, and tools into everyday leadership. Jeff competed on the world's biggest stages, overcame two career-threatening injuries, and helped his brother rebuild his life after addiction and 52 days in solitary confinement. Those experiences revealed the truth at the heart of his work: success without fulfillment leads to burnout, disconnection, and a drop in performance and well-being. His human-centered, science-backed approach transforms how high performers respond to pressure, turning stress into strength and making resilience the norm. |
| Planners | Member Supplier | Non-Member Supplier | Student Member | Student Non Member |
| $25 | Package: $65 Education Only: $50 After 5 Only: $25 | Package: $85 Education Only: $70 After 5 Only: $30 | Package: $20 Education Only: $0 After 5 Only: $20 | Package: $25 Education Only: $30 After 5 Only: $20 |
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 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 DOMAIN TBD This events attendance roster will be uploaded to the EIC for CE credits tracking (if applicable).If you do not have an EIC account, you can create one at www.eventscouncil.org |
Congratulations to the 2026 MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter Board of Directors
President - Viveca McDonald, MBA, DES
President Elect - Jeanette Stensgaard, MBA, CMP, HMCC
Immediate Past President - Matthew Kalb, CMP CEM-AP
Vice President of Communication - Hayley Harmon
Vice President of Education - Meghan Keelean, CMP
Vice President of Finance - Iliana Ruminski
Vice President of Membership - Ben Wood
Director of Leadership Development - Resa Meagher
Director of Education - Jennifer Hinton, CMP
Director of Member Care - Pablo Zacarias
Director of Recruitment - Vivian Butler
Director of Outreach - Rachel Milligan
Director of Marketing - Jared Bunn
Director of Publications - Meg Caldwell
Director of Special Events and Partnerships - Richelle Kemper
Director of Fundraising - Eric Holmes
Director of Fulfillment - Meaghan Ellis
The outgoing and incoming Boards have been working together closely to ensure a smooth transition into the new year.
- Angela "Fig" Wirkler, CMP, MPI Rocky Mountain Chapter, Past President
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