Amy Spatrisano, CMP, is a principal with MeetGreen, co-founder of the Green Meeting Industry Council, and chair of the APEX Green Meeting Practice Panel.
With the limits put on luxury expenditures, meetings and events by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, companies receiving funds under TARP must now have policies on entertainment, air flight and "activities or events that are not reasonable expenditures for the staff development, reasonable performance incentives" and the like. A rather reasonable requirement actually. The problem is it's created an impression that all meetings are excessive and unnecessary. Not true, writes Amy Spatrisano.
Amy Spatrisano’s business cuts across all other industries. If you're in business, you're in the meeting industry, she says. And now is the time to reevaluate how you do meetings.