Vision / Mission / Principles

Meeting Professionals International (MPI), the meeting and event industry’s most vibrant global community, helps its members thrive by providing human connections to knowledge and ideas, relationships, and marketplaces. MPI membership is comprised of more than 24,000 members belonging to 71 chapters and clubs worldwide.

Vision

MPI will lead and empower an inclusive meeting and event community to change the world.

Mission

MPI will connect the global meeting and event community to learn, innovate, collaborate, and advocate.

Principles of Professionalism

• Professional representation: Represent and act within one's areas of professional competency and authority without exaggeration, misrepresentation or concealment.
• Ethics and transparency: Uphold high ethical standards, including honesty, dependability, and transparency avoiding actions that can be perceived as a conflict of interest or for individual gain.
• Business transactions: Offer or accept only appropriate incentives, goods and services in business transactions.

• Respect for all: Treat all members with respect, courtesy, dignity, and consideration, regardless of their position.
• Constructive feedback: Provide and accept constructive feedback, focusing on the issue in a positive and respectful manner and consider self-improvement as a continuous process.
• Conflict resolution: Address conflicts constructively, while maintaining composure and engaging respectfully to seek solution.

• Confidentiality: Respect and take measures to protect confidentiality of privileged and/or sensitive information whether received verbally, in writing, or electronically. Refrain from misusing solicited information, proposals or concepts with the intent to gain unfair advantage of competitors.
• Communication and contracts: Honor written and oral contracts, striving for clarity and mutual understanding through complete, accurate and timely communications, while respecting legal and contractual rights of others.
• Sustainability: Commit to the protection of the environment by responsible use of resources in the production of meetings to what is reasonably possible.

• Embracing Diversity: Actively learn and practice to embrace and foster an inclusive business climate where every individual is valued, intentionally understood, and respected irrespective of national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, age, color, sexual orientation, disability, experience, location, or language to enhance our professional environment.
• Harassment and sexual harassment: MPI will not tolerate harassment based upon national origin, race, religion, sex, gender, age, color, sexual orientation, disability, experience, location or language. MPI does not tolerate sexual harassment. These commitments are in line with applicable laws which define and govern the parameters of such harassment and applies universally to employees, members, partners, directors, speakers, and vendors.
• Collaboration: Seek diverse perspectives, ensuring that all team members, regardless of their experience, location, or language, have the opportunity to contribute meaningfully.

• Business relationships: Commit to avoiding business relationships with organizations suspected of participating in any way in human trafficking and the commercial sexual exploitation of children. Consider including questions related to this topic and the Tourism Child-Protection Code of Conduct in RFPs.
• Awareness: Learn more about ways to combat human trafficking/sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism by attending educational sessions and accessing resources and articles on this topic, including the annual training provided by MPI.

MPI Board Approved |September 19, 2024