MeetingNews selects Terri Breining of Concepts Worldwide among 25 most influential people
Annette Gregg 4 months ago // 1 response // Business Interests Gibber-gabber

From MeetingNews Magazine:

The 25 Most Influential People in the Industry 2007

July 24, 2007

For the 13th year, the editors of Meeting News have selected the 25 Most Influential People in the Meetings Industry. Some are familiar names —veritable pillars of the industry. Others are newly minted, deserving honorees.

As you read through the list, take a moment to reflect on just how many people are affected by the ever-growing economic footprint of the meetings and hospitality business. Only then can you put into perspective the effect our honorees have on the well-being of countless people. Most impressive, indeed.

Terri Breining, President, Concepts Worldwide, San Diego

From her beginnings as a one-person operation in the late 1970s, Breining has come a long way. Besides running her 27-person independent planning firm, various other industry engagements keep her finger on the pulse of the meetings business. The most prominent one: Since January, she has been chairwoman of the Accepted Practices Exchange (APEX) commission, an industry initiative launched in 2001 that identifies and disseminates the best practices in the meeting planning business. The effort has the backing of every major association in the industry, and Breining, through a raft of speaking engagements, is spreading the good news far and wide that help is here for planners of all types of events. When Breining got involved with planning meetings “by accident,” she says, the activity was not even considered a career path. So, for years now, she has been a zealous member of the movement to bring the value of meeting planning front and center before corporate executives. And to prepare the next generation of meeting and event planners, she teaches meeting planning at San Diego State University.

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