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Joan Eisenstodt Eisenstodt Associates

Joan founded Eisenstodt Associates in 1981. Her expertise is in negotiations and contracts with facilities
and vendors for meetings; and as a trainer and facilitator in ethics, risk management, contracts,
negotiations, and general meeting management. She was the founding and long-time moderator of the
“MIMList”, the first meetings and hospitality online community founded in 1999. She currently is active on
social media in hospitality, facilitation, education,
association, meetings and travel communities and
blogs at www.meetingstoday.com. Joan serves as a
hospitality industry expert witness, and is on the
Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Conven-
tion and Event Tourism. She is an adjunct faculty
member for the Society of Government Meeting
Professionals (SGMP.) She served 4 years on the
Board of Directors of Meeting Professionals Interna-
tional (MPI), She represented MPI on the Joint Indus-
try Task Force on Diversity, served 3 years as a Trus-
tee of the MPI Foundation. Joan is a long-time ac-
tive member of the American Society of Association
Executives (ASAE) and the Professional Convention

Management Association (PCMA.) For ASAE, she is a
past chair of the Ethics Committee, and has served
on the Diversity Committee, Meetings and Exhibition (“M&E”) Section Council and on the Ethics
Committee. ASAE’s Board of Directors, in 2011, passed the revised Standards of Conduct, applicable to all
ASAE member categories, that Joan helped draft. Joan most recently served on two sub-groups as an ad
hoc volunteer for the Diversity & Inclusion Committee. Joan’s PCMA activities include service on the
Ethics Committee and on the Diversity Committee; as a multi-year chair of the Student Task Force; and

1990. PCMA’s Foundation honored Joan in 2008 for Lifetime Achievement as an Educator, the
only non-academic to ever receive the award. She was a co-chair of the Site Profiles Panel for the
APEX initiative of the Convention Industry Council (CIC), the hospitality industry’s umbrella
association. Joan was one of the first four recipients of the Pacesetter Award from the Hospitality
Sales and Marketing Association International and of the Pyramid Award from the International
Association of Conference Centers (IACC), both for her contributions to education. She is a 2004

Inductee into the CIC Hall of Leaders, the hospitality and meetings industry’s highest honor.
Most recently, MeetingsNet named Joan “Change-Maker-in-Chief” among others recognized as
change-makers and Meetings Focus (currently MeetingsToday) named her a “Trendsetter.”

on the Annual Meeting Planning Committee. PCMA recognized Joan as a Teacher of the Year in Speaker Bios

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