The International Association of Venue Managers Foundation (IAVMF) is pleased to announce Joe Floreano, CFE, as recipient of the 2014 Legacy Award for venue management excellence. Floreano is the executive director of the Rochester Riverside Convention Center in New York. The purpose

Imagine the most influential person in your life. Perhaps it’s a parent. A friend. Maybe a former boss. Now imagine why this person is influential. Was it the way she lead? Or could it have been the way he conducted himself? Influence, while not always acknowledged directly, is

IAVM is offering a free one-hour webinar about the Mentor Connector Program on Tuesday, April 29, from 2-3 p.m. (CDT). You are invited and encouraged to participate, especially if you are participating in the program this year or if you are just curious about how the program works. Re

Like Carla Rieger, I come from a family of worriers, and by seeing how it affected their lives I’ve worked hard on suspending worry from my own life. It’s hard, though, and Rieger offers a way to help you rid yourself of this wasted-energy activity. I think that’s a

Albert Einstein loved to play the violin when he wasn’t working on scientific equations. Even though it was a hobby, it fed his “day job.” “The theory of relativity occurred to me by intuition, and music is the driving force behind this intuition,” Einste