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Featured GMIC APEX Trainers
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Meet the GMIC APEX Featured Trainers  | Danielle
Adams is a certified meeting professional (CMP) with over 20 years of
experience in event planning and management.
Her passion for sustainability resulted in a position as one of 14 MPI
members trained to deliver MPI’s CSR Sessions – Knowledge, Measurement and
Strategy, as well as a representative on the US TAG 250 for the ISO 20121
Sustainable Event Standard Development.
She is a contributing writer for Prevue Magazine and green/sustainable
resource for the editor. Read Full Bio Here.
|  | Lindsay Arell, LEED AP O+M |
Sustainable Programs Manager, Colorado Convention Center /SMG & Principal
and Founder, Arell Logic
Lindsay Arell is president of Arell Logic, a consulting firm
that helps venues and facilities evaluate their operation and implement
sustainable practice. Her goal is to develop programs that not only reduce a
venue’s environmental impact, but also provide cost savings. Arell Logic
sustainable project management delivers value by modifying practices of energy
consumption, waste reduction/diversion, water conservation, air quality; while
also engaging with the local community to form strategic partnerships.
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Midori Connolly is CEO and Chief AVGirl
at Pulse Staging and Events. Pulse Staging is best known for producing the
industry's first set of guidelines for sustainable AudioVisual Staging
– becoming the solid industry expert on the topic of green AV for live
events. She is a Platinum Speaker for MPI, Green AV Columnist for rAVe,
AVGirl advice columnist for PlanYourMeetings.com, Director on the Green
Meetings Industry Council international Board of Directors and served on
InfoComm International's first-ever Green AV Task Force. She’s
an expert at hybrid meeting production for clients such as PCMA and
BMW and is devoted to making AV technology more human, approachable and
sustainable.
When not speaking, writing or
creating AudioVisual wonders, Midori can be found golfing, riding horses,
or even racing the world’s first veggie-oil offroad car with her two
children and husband in sunny San Diego, CA.
|  | Amanda L. Gourgue, CMP, LEED AP is a revolutionist! She started her own company called Meeting
Revolution. It is a meeting and event
company that specializes in environmental friendly meetings. Meeting Revolution also assists meeting
facilities in becoming socially responsible.
Read Full Bio Here
|  | Diana Graling, CMM CMP CSEP
Diana Graling CMM, CMP, CSEP is an award-winning
certified meetings and special events professional who has earned accolades and
international awards managing events for corporations, international
associations, and not-for-profit agencies. Diana is an active leader and
educator in the industry, serving on the boards of various meetings and events
associations.
Diana was selected as the lead instructor and developer for GMIC's Foundations
for Sustainable Event Planning course. This course provides the business
context to sustainability integration and prepares participants to be ready for
ISO 20121 courses and GMIC's APEX/ASTM 7 Steps to Integration Course.
|  | Judy Kucharuk self-professed control
freak, it is not unusual that Judy chose the event planning and project
management business as a career path.
After witnessing
firsthand the excessive waste that resulted from the large scale events she was
managing, Judy became intrigued with the green meeting trend and shortly
thereafter joined the Green Meeting Industry Council. She was hooked and hasn’t
turned back. "I like a challenge and have come to specialize in creating
innovative green events in some of the most northern communities where there
isn’t a lot of basic eco-infrastructure like recycling programs.”
A firm believer that "silence is acceptance”, Kucharuk educates wherever she
goes. She developed a green event workshop titled "Learn to Meet Green” where
participants are treated to an enthusiastic session that is both humorous and
inspiring. As a thought-provoking keynote speaker, Judy leaves her audience
feeling good about the world in which they live.
|  | Katherine
Manfredi, CMM
Presentations come to life as Katherine
Manfredi draws upon 20+ years of diverse
event management and training experience.
With the distinct honor of being the sole person selected
and trained to deliver all three of these key industry programs, Katherine is qualified
as: a Platinum Series Speaker for MPI’s three Corporate Social
Responsibility (CSR) programs for Meeting Professional’s International (MPI) - Knowledge,
Measurement and Strategic CSR, an Accredited Trainer for MPI’s Global Training
programs for the Global Certification in Business Meetings & Events at
select universities worldwide, and an Approved GMIC Trainer for the
APEX/ASTM Environmentally Sustainable Event Standards 7 Steps to Integration®.
Read Full Bio Here
|  | Beverly Oviedo, CMP
Beverly Oviedo is a certified meeting professional and
founder of Sustainable Solutions by Design, a company developed to help
organizations integrate sustainable practices into their organizational
culture.
Ms. Oviedo has a Bachelor of Science degree from California
State University, Chico, in Instructional Design and Technology; a Bachelor of
Arts Degrees in Communication Design, with an option in Graphic Design and Web;
and a minor in Tourism. She has completed her Masters Degree in the Science of
Instructional Design and Technology from California State University, Monterey
Bay. Additionally, she is a graduate of the Presidio Graduate School Executive
Program in Sustainable Management, in San Francisco and an internationally
accredited sustainability manager by the Sustainable Event Alliance of Australia.
|  | Deborah Popely, Senior Director, Organizational
Development and Training, Delta Institute "Making meeting and
events more sustainable is critical, because it influences the practices of so
many sectors of the economy. The APEX standard will help drive the
transformation of this industry along the supply chain. Being an official
trainer, equipped with the latest information and tools, will make a big
difference for me in helping customers understand the importance of the green meetings
and events movement" Read Full Bio Here
|  | Amy
Spatrisano, CMP
is a principal of MeetGreen®, a BS 8901 Sustainable Events certified conference
management and consulting firm specializing in green meetings.
Internationally recognized as a leader in the sustainable meeting and event
management field, Amy has been named one of "The 25 Most Powerful in the
Meetings Industry", acknowledged as one of the "Growing Green Leaders” and
included in the list of Eco-Leaders. She is cofounder of the Green
Meeting Industry Council, is co-author of "Simple Steps to Green Meetings and
Events”. In addition, she chaired the APEX Green Meetings and Events
Practice Panel work in partnership with ASTM to develop green meeting standards
for the meetings industry. Amy is currently a member of the working group
for the Global Reporting Initiative’s Event Organizers Sector
Supplement.She is longtime MPI member having served as chapter
president, chair of the International Chapter Leadership Committee and as an
International Board of Directors.
|  | Andrew Walker is an Event Strategist at Eco-Efficient Events (E3) Limited based
in London, England. He launched the company with the belief we have an amazing
opportunity to create business events that increase learning, motivation,
networking, productivity and social legacy, while reducing waste, emissions,
energy/water consumption, and cost. In addition to serving on the GMIC Board,
Andrew sits on the MPI CSR Advisory Council and is actively involved in the ISO
20121 standard development process as a member of the Canadian National Mirror
Committee. Andrew is also in the final
phase of his Master in Environmental Studies (MES) at Toronto’s York
University, specializing in Sustainable Meeting and Event Management, and
expects to graduate in June 2012.
|  | Johanna Walsh, is an
eco-event planner and consultant based in New York City and San Francisco. She
is the founder and manager of Twirl Management, a firm that develops and
promotes environmentally responsible opportunities for events. Twirl Management
is a Certified Green Business by the City & County of San Francisco. Walsh is a founding member of the Board of
Directors for the Northern California Chapter of the Green Meeting Industry
Council, a member of APEX Green Meeting Standards A/V Committee and the ISO
20120 Sustainable Events Management Group. Read Full Bio Here
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