Financial/Insurance Planning

Metlife's Education Advocate

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EDT

Boston-based JESSICA CRIMMINS is director of MetLife's Financial Solutions Group and the Business Strategy and Development Department. She is responsible for training, marketing, and communication in three areas: financial planning, estate planning, and MetDesk estate planning for special-needs kids. She functions as an executive producer for her groups' events, including putting together teams for

Insights on strategic meetings management from Jan Hennessey, CMP, CMM, Fireman’s Fund Insurance

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EDT

The evolving profession of strategic meeting planning documented by our recent reader survey is led by change agents unafraid to address new paradigms. Among them is Jan Hennessey, CMP, CMM, a 20-year industry planner who in 2006 rejoined her former company, Fireman's Fund Insurance Co., as senior director, meetings & event management, to lead a new internal planning department. In addition to managing

Survey Says: Meetings Stay Strong, Planners Step Up

Tue, 01 Jan 2008 12:00:00 EDT

The tide has turned. Not the seller's market. That'll be around a while longer. Rather, it's the perception and the reality of the meeting planning profession. The old guard saw meeting planners as spenders of money, says Jennifer Squeglia, CMP, of RLC Events in Marlborough, Mass. We have more than proven that we are savers of money. Beyond that, she adds, meeting planners have become strategic partners

Big Moves at Marriott

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EDT

After a painstaking two-year reorganization, Marriott this summer began redeploying its national sales force against thousands of U.S. customers. The hotel giant has attempted to connect and coordinate sales efforts to these accounts through primary points of contact

Tomorrow, the World: The Inside Story of AIG's Strategic Meetings Management Program

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 12:00:00 EDT

When an AIG senior executive arrived in Shanghai for a high-level meeting in 2004, he noticed AIG signs in his hotel. For a different meeting. He said, I should have known about this. Give me a list of all our meetings, says Kelli Livers, CMP. No one could. That seemingly straightforward request blossomed into complex work on a strategic meetings management program (SMMP) an effort to identify, track,