From facilitating introductions to providing opportunities for conversation and exchange, this article will provide the tools you need to create a networking-friendly event that will help participants grow professionally and establish lasting connections in the industry.

In April 2022, members of the Impact team partnered with the Wisconsin Funeral Directors Association to put on their first annual Professional Women’s Conference. As a client of Impact’s for multiple years, the WFDA trusted our team to assist with the event from concept to clean up.

Destinations and venues are opening their doors! Which means, associations are once again bringing their members together for in-person and hybrid events. However, we certainly wouldn’t call it a “return to normal.” Pandemic-era restrictions and safety precautions still hold true and require an additional degree of planning and care to ensure attendee safety.

How does a membership association founded on collaboration and networking keep members engaged and provide quality programming in a virtual environment? Impact recently took on that challenge with The Association for Collaborative Leadership (ACL) while planning their 2021 virtual conference, “The Future of Collaboration when ‘Business as Usual’ Resides in the Past”.