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Anita Carlyle | PCMA Member Spotlight
Get to know PCMA Member Anita Carlyle, Managing Partner, Moore Carlyle Consulting/MCC Destination Management How has your career developed as a result of being a PCMA member? I was on the Canadian Board for several years and gained great leadership skills and...
Facing the Future Together
To help conference participants better understand one another, behavioral expert Thimon de Jong has audience participants team up and ask each other this question: How do you see the future? Talking about the multiple crises that the world faces — a “polycrisis” of...
Report: Member Loyalty Remains Strong
Momentive’s survey of members and association staff find plenty of support for advocacy, meetings, and AI, but also some headwinds. A new survey of association members and professions finds that members feel a close bond with their associations, but also spotlights...
An Industry Under Pressure
Identifying the individual stressors that event planners face is the first step to measuring the impact of stress on the industry as a whole. “Calling all event planners!” Angelika Bazarnik posted on the PCMA community forum Catalyst. “As part of my Ph.D. research at...
How Do Event-Planning Salaries Measure Up?
How do event planner salaries stack up? Are event planners underpaid compared to other roles that may have similar responsibilities in terms of contributing to their associations’ bottom line? We took a look at average and median salaries from a number of other...
Thinking Like Economic Architects
Editorial Note: Originally published in the September 2025 issue of Trade Show Executive magazine. For a long time we have described ourselves as event organizers, show managers or venue operators. But here’s the thing: that language is limiting us and doesn’t truly...




