Meeting Planning is a Marathon

 

Meeting Planning is a Marathon

 

Matt's Talk, "Meeting Planning is a Marathon-Developing Your Marathon Mentality" shows Meeting Planners how to attain VICTORY by developing their "Marathon Mentality" and crossing their Finish Line!  Gain inspiration, motivation, and skills designed to boost your career to new heights! This talk offers the following benefits for those involved in meeting planning:

• Connecting to your Passion and Purpose for Meeting Planning
• How to Stop Stress before it Stops You
• Developing Bulldog Persistence
• How to Operate at a level of Excellence
• Creating more Effective Relationships among staff, management, and coworkers
• Thriving in the midst of Adversity, Setbacks, and Failures
• Living a life of Significance 

Meeting Planning like a marathon is an endurance event. In order to achieve VICTORY and cross the finish line you must stay energized, push through the wall of adversity, and preserve until the end. Through Matt Jones' experiences of overcoming major adversity and insurmountable odds, you will be inspired and learn strategies to achieve VICTORY as a Meeting Professional by developing your "Marathon Mentality" and cross your Finish Line! Matt's talk is based on his inspiring life experiences of overcoming cancer three times when doctors did not think he would live, relearning how to walk, and running marathons around the world including San Diego, Rome, Tokyo, Australia, Cape Town, Antarctica, and Chile. As an added bonus, Matt also shares the most current and ground breaking research in the science of success and leadership from his research as a PhD student in Organizational Leadership. 

Matt Jones is known as the “Eight Continent Marathon Man.” He went from being a three-time cancer conqueror to relearning how to walk, to going through a bone marrow transplant, to completing eight marathons on eight continents. This includes Antarctica and the and yes that includes Antarctica and the newly discovered continent of Zealandia. Matt was diagnosed with cancer on September 11, 2002. After spreading to the fluid in his brain doctors did not think he would live. After victoriously conquering cancer, he was told by his doctor, no one has gone through what he did and be alive one year later. Baseball Hall of Famer George Brett said, “Matt is a true champion and his story inspires others to be a true champion.” Olympic Gold Medalist Scott Hamilton said, “Matt Jones has done what anyone would consider impossible. Conqueror. Overcomer. Champion. Superhuman. None of those words do him justice." Matt is the author of numerous books and travels around the world sharing his inspiring story and message. For more information about Matt please visit his website at www.MatthewDJones.com