Mastering Conference Event Contracts: Confidence and Language Refresh

VIRTUAL WEBINAR

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After producing 400 conferences nationally, Melva LaJoy Legrand, CEO and Founder of award-winning DC-based events management firm, LaJoy Plans, will break down her conference contract learnings for attendees. Participants will leave with a framework for how to present a contract for discussion/approval, as well as a refresher on important contractual language that every event professional should know.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the Key Elements of Conference Contracts: Learn the essential components and clauses of a conference contract, enabling one to identify what should be included in every agreement.
• Develop Contract Presentation Skills: Gain insights into effective strategies for presenting contracts for discussion and approval, ensuring clarity and mutual understanding between parties.
• Refresh Knowledge of Contractual Language: Comprehensive refresher on the critical legal terminology and language that event professionals must be familiar with to negotiate and finalize contracts confidently.

• NSBWEP Members – Complimentary
• ILEA Members - Complimentary
• NACE Members - Complimentary
• Non-Members $35.00
• Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferrable to another event.

About Our Speaker:

Melva LaJoy Legrand is the CEO and Founder of LaJoy Plans, an award-winning event planning firm based in Washington DC. With over 20 years of experience in the Live Events Industry, she has produced events in almost every major city in the U.S. for audiences ranging from 10 to 60,0001.

Melva is a 2022 Global Events Industry Council Award Winner and has been recognized by BizBash magazine as a Top 500 Event Planner. She started LaJoy Plans to deliver high-quality services to mission-focused organizations, coordinating events with budgets exceeding $1M/day. Notable attendees at her events have included figures such as gospel legend Yolanda Adams, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Inaugural National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda C. Gorman, and World Bank President David Malpass.

A graduate of both Howard and Columbia University, Melva’s greatest achievement includes being one of the first women to receive the Alice J. Paul Award from the American University’s Women & Politics Institute. This was in recognition of her work in designing a community rally to support college-aged survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Recently, she was elected as a board member for the Live Events Coalition, serving as the organization’s Education Co-Chair, responsible for designing educational experiences for its members1. Melva’s firm, LaJoy Plans, has also been recognized as Smart Meetings 2024 Entrepreneur of the Year.

Melva LaJoy Legrand’s commitment to joy, innovation, authenticity, and growth shines through in her work, making her a distinguished figure in the event planning industry.