The Media Files
200 pixels wide
300 pixels wide
Short bio: 154 words
Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP, spent 24 years as a corporate meeting and event coordinator where she managed the full spectrum of the event planning process, across all levels of management with an emphasis on high profile, executive-level groups including senior management, Board of Directors and key customers. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career.
Since leaving the corporate world she has stayed current in the industry trip directing and volunteering. She spent one day a week for five years assisting WomenVenture, a nonprofit organization that provides micro-financing for women starting or expanding a business with their prospect research efforts, something that has brought her full circle to a similar prospect research position she had at Metropolitan State University prior to starting on her meeting planning career.
Contact Mary Jo at mwiseman4446@gmail.com.
Long bio: 240 words
Mary Jo Wiseman, CMP (known to many as MJ), spent 24 years as a corporate meeting and event coordinator where she managed the full spectrum of the event planning process, across all levels of management with an emphasis on high profile, executive-level groups including senior management, Board of Directors and key customers. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career.
She was actively engaged in Meeting Professionals International (MPI) throughout her career having served on the Education Committee and the Board of Directors of the Minnesota Chapter. She obtained her CMP designation in 1992, and considers herself a lifelong learner. She enjoys best, teaching and coaching others.
Since leaving the corporate world she has stayed current in the industry trip directing and volunteering. She assisted WomenVenture, a nonprofit organization that provides micro-financing for women starting or expanding a business on a volunteer basis with their prospect research efforts one day a week for five years, something that has brought her full circle to a similar prospect research position she had at Metropolitan State University prior to starting on her meeting planning career.
Mary Jo lives in White Bear Lake with her husband James Huonder and spends as much time together as they can aboard their sailboat Unity which they keep in Bayfield, WI.
To contact Mary Jo, send a message to mwiseman4446@gmail.com
The Book
"The Meeting Planning Process -- A Guide to Planning Successful Meetings" by Certified Meeting Professional, Mary Jo Wiseman, offers a common sense approach to managing the meeting planning process based on the knowledge and experience she garnered over her 24- year career as a corporate meeting and event coordinator. The author’s systematic approach to project management helped her to get and stay focused on the task at hand while handling multiple details, projects and deadlines throughout her career and she wants to share her knowledge with others.
The author firmly believes it is NOT just one person who makes a meeting or event happen, but rather a well led TEAM of dedicated, enthusiastic, talented individuals who come together to do what they do best to help organizations EXCEED PROGRAM OBJECTIVES and make them SHINE. It is the PROCESS or the system one uses to get started that can either keep you on track or send you off the rails.
This Guide offers a practical overview of the entire planning process for people just starting out in the business, administrative or other professionals who are called upon only occasionally to plan meetings outside of their day-to-day responsibilities, or meeting planning veterans alike, and offers keen insights and valuable tips to help CREATE the perfect EXPERIENCE for their audience by staying true to the basic elements of the planning process. It is intended to lead people through the proper steps and the sequence of tasks involved in planning a meeting such as: Establishing a Design/Planning Team; Developing an Overall Plan; Budgeting; Site Selection; Communications; Contract Review and more.
The Guide also includes handy templates developed by the author -- a Meeting Timeline; Overall Plan; and Request for Proposal as well as descriptions and diagrams of possible room set-ups.
Front Cover 200 pixels wide
Front Cover 300 pixels wide
Back Cover 200 pixels wide
Back Cover 300 pixels wide
