Topic: Event Design for Well Being
Speaker: Melissa
Milione, CMP, CPCE
Session Description:
Everyone seems to be talking about adding mindfulness, wellness and wellbeing to their events. This session will define what this means and identify why it’s important to consider how to positively impact your participants’ wellbeing. Melissa will share ideas on how to fuel and power your guests, how to reduce anxiety and make them feel emotionally centered for your meetings.
About our speaker: Melissa Milione, CMP, CPCE, is Corporate Director of Events for Hyatt Hotels & Resorts. She supports all of the professionals who sell and coordinate catering and conference services for all of Hyatt’s full service hotels in the Americas. In addition, she is responsible for developing and executing all training, delivering innovative technology to support events and developing talent for the hotels. She leads Hyatt’s National Event Planning team. A graduate of Virginia Tech’s Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management program, Melissa has 30 years’ experience in the hospitality industry in all areas of F&B management, hotel sales and convention services. As a Director of Catering her teams have twice been named Catering/CS team of the Year for Hyatt Hotels and she was named Director of Catering/CS of the Year for large hotels in 2008.
Melissa is an active member of NACE and MPI. She is a trainer for NACE’s On-line CPCE Study Course and MPI North Florida’s CMP Study Group. She is a Past President of MPI North Florida and remains active in the chapter on committees. Melissa has been recognized by MPI North Florida as Supplier of the Year (2012) and received the distinguished Presidents Award (2011). Active in her community, Melissa volunteers in local schools and is Chairperson of the Professional Advisory Board for Virginia Tech’s College of Hospitality & Tourism Management.