Creating meetings and events in which all people feel valued and respected.

Career starters:

Inclusive Event Strategist

What You'll Learn

✓ Utilize key findings from MPI research on inclusion to make the business case for greater efforts toward welcoming environments at your organization

✓ Explain the business case for inclusion, and why creating objectives and tactics for inclusion will benefit your business or organization

✓ Use the dimensions of diversity in your event strategy and design to create fully inclusive environments

✓ Embrace your role of inclusion broker, and strategies you can use in representing the diverse people at your meetings and events

✓ Recommend actions you and your organization can take to create an inclusive environment

✓ Commit to taking actions that create an environment of inclusion by completing an Inclusive Action Plan

Program Overview

Inclusion is not only the right thing to do—it unquestionably enhances your event’s value. Inclusion goes beyond basic legal compliance; it means creating an atmosphere in which all people feel valued and respected. Meetings and events succeed when they embrace the ways in which people are different, and the result is a powerful setting for problem-solving, innovation and success.

Through MPI’s Inclusive Event Strategist Certificate Program, you’ll discover how to keep a strategy of inclusion at the center of your event’s design and execution. You’ll explore the dimensions of diversity and learn best practices that ensure the engagement of all event participants. You’ll learn to adopt your role as an “inclusion broker” for the diverse groups you represent and focus on practical actions that result in inclusive event programs and environments.

The program’s focus is not on changing individual beliefs or ideas. Its goal is to explore the topic of inclusion and its relationship to the success of events and to provide strategies and actions that you can take to create inclusive experiences.

Clock Hour Details

Participants of this course receive the following after program completion:

Certificate of completion in Inclusive Event Design
4 clock hours in CMP-IS Strategic Domain G: Meeting or Event Design

Attention planners: Need financial assistance?
MPI Foundation Scholarships are available for the following courses:

HMCC, Event Leadership Strategist and Inclusive Event Strategist

Learn more and apply here.

MPI Foundation

What Our Attendees Say

"I was motivated and empowered by MPI’s Inclusive Event Strategist certificate program, it is an excellent tool for industry professionals to learn new ideas in implementing inclusive strategies for all facets of the meeting planning process - from the genesis of the RFP to the post-con meeting. I learned insight into the questions we need to be asking, the considerations we need to be taking and the dimensions of incorporating diversity and cultural competence in making conferences and meetings more inclusive."

~ Joe Bedsole

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