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MPI Announces Chapter Awards

MPI Announces Chapter Awards

By Rowland Stiteler

The past year was one to be proud of for MPI chapters, especially for those winners of the 2017/2018 chapter awards. Program objectives of the awards are to recognize, reward and spotlight chapters for their consistent delivery of quality services to members. The Chapter Recognition Program is designed to acknowledge superior chapter performance based on objectively measured results.

The benefits of receiving the award include the following.

  • Excellence Award presented at chapter event.

  • Chapter award logo for use in promotional materials.

  • Chapter profile in The Meeting Professional.

  • Best practices shared during Chapter Business Summit and chapter leader calls, and also highlighted on the Chapter Leader Resource Page.

  • Winners will also be announced on a special leadership call with all chapters.

Merit Awards

  • Highest Member Growth: Tennessee (Katie Rogers CMP, president)

  • Highest Volunteer Engagement: Middle Pennsylvania (Lutricia Eberly and Brian Griffith, presidents)

  • Highest Net Profit: Minnesota (Jen Ruthig, CMP, president)

  • Highest Membership Satisfaction: Gulf States (Nicole Hutchison, CMP, president)

  • Highest Leadership Satisfaction: Gulf States (Nicole Hutchison, CMP, president)

  • Highest Education Content: 5-point scale, Kansas City (Andrea O’Hara, CMP, president); 6-point scale, Heartland (Angie Kistaitis, president); 10-point scale, North Florida (Lisa Perry CMP, president)

Top Performing Chapter Awards

  • Arizona Sunbelt (Lee Smith, HMCC, president)

  • Gulf States (Nicole Hutchison, CMP, president)

  • Greater Edmonton (Arlene Schilke, CMP, president)

  • Greater Orlando Area (Stacey Baytes Engelmann, CMP, DMCP, president)

  • Indiana (Katie Riggs, CAE, CMP, CMM, president)

  • Kansas City (Andrea O’Hara, CMP, president)

  • Michigan (Trisha J. Olach, CMP, president)

  • Middle Pennsylvania (Lutricia Eberly and Brian Griffith, presidents)

  • New Mexico (Collette Schobbens, CMP, CMM, president)

  • Sacramento/Sierra Nevada (Lynda Sagar, president)

  • Wisconsin (Claudia Cabrera, president)

Overall Excellence Award

  • Connecticut River Valley (Annamarie Grise, CMP, president)

  • Ohio (Amanda Stredney, president)

  • North Florida (Lisa Perry, CMP, president)

  • Tennessee (Katie Rogers, CMP, president)

Author

Rowland Stiteler

Rowland Stiteler, a veteran meeting industry journalist, is a writer and editor for The Meeting Professional.