GBTA and MPI sign agreement for combined education and training

Meeting Professionals International (MPI) and the Global Business Travel Association (GBTA) has signed a joint venture to “co-create new industry-leading education and training opportunities”.
 
A LLC, US-based limited liability company, is being formed with an executive steering committee to operate and manage the new curriculum, which is expected to be available in 2013.
 
“This is the first and only broad association partnership that GBTA has entered into since forming the GBTA Academy,” said GBTA Executive Director and COO, Michael W. McCormick. “Our collective members will be reaping the benefits of this partnership for years to come.”
 
Cindy D’Aoust, COO and interim CEO for MPI, added: “We continually hear from the community that they want associations to work together and provide opportunities for improving their career skills. The collaboration with GBTA will deliver the single most essential management training programme in the industry, creating a new standard for excellence. The result is enhanced value for both our members and the industry.”
 
The new senior level education will be available to both MPI and GBTA members. While both current designations will continue to be recognised by MPI and the GBTA Academy, this new educational programme is being derived from the best of GBTA’s Strategic Meetings Management Certification (SMMC) and MPI’s Certificate in Meetings Management (CMM) programme.
 
GBTA’s 5,000-plus members manage over US$340bn of global business travel and meetings expenditure annually.
 
MPI is the meetings and events industry’s largest global community comprised of more than 21,000 members representing 84 countries worldwide.
 
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