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    MPI
Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
Meeting Professionals International - Member since 1992.
Brigitte Boone has had several board positions and has been the MPI president of the Belgium chapter in 2004-2005.

Defining the power of meetings.

MPI is the largest association for the meeting profession with more than 20 000 members in 66 chapters and clubs across the United States, Canada, Europe and other countries throughout the world.

The CMM designation has been obtained. It means that a meeting professional who has earned the designation CMM is qualified to be a leader in her / his business organization and to think and act strategically in order to :

  • Position meetings to accelerate business growth.
  • Understand and implement the overall vision / mission of an organization.
  • Prepare and / or implement a business plan.
  • Successfully operate within an organization's culture or help change it.
  • Develop and manage an effective resource network.
  • Assess cross-cultural and global dynamics.
  • Be results-oriented and effect change.

Brigitte has also a CMP designation. A Certified Meeting Professional.

The foremost certification program of today's meetings, conventions and exhibitions industry, the CMP designation recognizes those who have achieved the industry's highest standard of professionalism. Established in 1985, the CMP credential was developed to increase the proficiency of meeting professionals in any component or sector of the industry.
 

  SITE
The Society of Incentive & Travel Executives is a worldwide organization of business professionals dedicated to the recognition and development of motivational and performance improvement strategies of which travel is a key component. It recognizes the global cultural differences and practices in developing these strategies, and serves as a networking and educational opportunity for its members.

Both, Brigitte and Raymond are Site Members.

Brigitte serves on the International Chapter leadership Council. She is responsible for the follow up of the activities from and the strategy witnessed by the Chapters from Germany, Belgium, Finland and The Netherlands.

http://www.site-intl.org/chapters/chaptercouncil.cfm

Brigitte is a member of the 2009 SITE International Board of Directors

http://www.site-intl.org/about/Board2009.cfm
 

  ICCA
ICCA was founded in 1963 by a group of travel agents. Their first and foremost aim was to evaluate practical ways to get the travel industry involved in the rapidly expanding market of international meetings and to exchange actual information related to their operations in this market. This initiative soon proved to have been taken at the right moment: the meeting industry expanded even more rapidly than foreseen. As a result of which candidates from all over the world applied for ICCA membership. Not only congress travel agents but representatives from all the various sectors of the meetings industry.

ICCA now is one of the most prominent organisations in the world of international meetings. It is the only association that comprises a membership representing the main specialists in handling, transporting and accommodating international events.

ICCA's network of over 900 suppliers to the international meetings industry spans the globe, with members in 86 countries. All companies and organisations which have a strategic commitment to provide top quality products and services for international meetings should consider ICCA membership as part of their long term plans.

International meeting planners can rely on the ICCA network to find solutions for all their event objectives: venue selection; technical advice; assistance with delegate transportation; full convention planning or ad hoc services. ICCA members represent the top destinations worldwide, and the most experienced specialist suppliers.
 

  UIA
The Union of International Associations (UIA) is a research institute and documentation centre, based in Brussels. It was founded one hundred years ago, in 1907, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize laureate of 1913), and Paul Otlet, a founding father of what is now called information science.

Non-profit, apolitical, independent, and non-governmental in nature, the UIA has been a pioneer in the research, monitoring and provision of information on international organizations, international associations and their global challenges since 1907.

Publicly the UIA is best known for the Yearbook of International Organizations; the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential; the International Congress Calendar; and its former journal Transnational Associations.

In its on-going efforts to facilitate understanding of the nature and complexities of the international community of organizations the UIA has become a cutting-edge technical centre with high standing in the academic, governmental, and business domains.

The UIA has consultative status with ECOSOC and with UNESCO.
 

  ASAE
ASAE is a membership organization of more than 22,000 association executives and industry partners representing more than 11,000 organizations. Our members manage leading trade associations, individual membership societies and voluntary organizations across the United States and in nearly 50 countries around the world.

With support of the ASAE Foundation, a separate nonprofit entity, ASAE is the premier source of learning, knowledge and future-oriented research for the association and nonprofit profession, and provides resources, education, ideas and advocacy to enhance the power and performance of the association and nonprofit community.

We believe associations have the power to transform society for the better. Our passion is to help association professionals achieve previously unimaginable levels of performance. We do this by nurturing a community of really smart, creative, and interesting people - our members. In short, we are the Center for Association Leadership.