While live experiences can be exhilarating, rewarding, challenging and memorable, every experience is unique and shapes your personal and professional path in life. At MPI, we are empowering our members to personalize their MPI experience, whether through face-to-face interactions, engagement with our unique communities, participation at state-of-the-art events, MPI Academy offerings or engagement in chapter programs and volunteer opportunities—all of which are unparalleled in our industry.

Eleanor Roosevelt said it perfectly when describing experiences: “People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.”

In 2020, MPI is committed to providing you with more opportunities to personalize your experiences, deepen your connections and diversify your networks by expanding our career-focused communities, special interest groups, learning opportunities and live events. Empowering you to tailor your MPI experience based on personal goals, interests and career track provides you with the platform to create an unmatched personalized experience.

And as we gear up for the World Education Congress (WEC) in Grapevine, Texas, this June, we will provide an authentic experience like no other. Through modern, vibrant event education—combined with the unique charm of Texas—we’ll demonstrate what it means to localize and personalize an event to showcase the authenticity attendees crave and remember from live events. While at WEC, you will be able to design your learning experience through four educational pathways that will inspire you.

As you design and tailor your experience at MPI, you open the doors to the array of opportunities MPI offers to grow professionally and personally. Our community is the backbone of MPI, and we know that your connection with us is personal. Over the next year, I can personally promise that MPI will be here to be your community and your platform to help you build and grow your personal connections and experiences.

Thank you for being part of our community.

Paul Van Deventer
MPI President and CEO
pvandeventer@mpiweb.org
Follow me on Twitter @MPICEOPaul