By Planners, For Planners.TM

Our Mission

SPIN is a peer-led and peer-focused community of senior-level meeting and event planners who create and share the industry’s highest level of education, networking and engagement.

Our Vision

SPIN is the industry’s only supplier-free association strictly serving senior-level meeting and event planners. We influence the future of our industry through extreme innovation, unparalleled education, and a true sense of community and collaboration among peers.

Membership is strictly for planners, 
and you must have 10+ years' experience to join.

THE GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2013 SPINCAKE WARS IS.....

REGINA PORTEE FROM ATLANTA for her Disney design on Earth Day!!!

Regina wins a scholarship to SPINCon, including complimentary registration, two nights' lodging, and an airfare credit of $250.



SPIN's Gold Preferred Suppliers
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Attendees at SPINCon spell out "SPIN

What is SPIN?

We are an professional association not affiliated with any other meetings industry associations. In fact, we're turning the typical association model on its head.  SPIN is different: we don't like to think of ourselves as a traditional, typical association because we don't do things the way you might expect.

All members are pre-screened, qualified senior-level planners with at least 10 years of full-time planning experience (the average is closer to 20 years).   To join, click the Join SPIN tab above - basic membership is $25 annually, we're only for planners, and full of resources built by and for our members.    



Silver Preferred Suppliers

What Does SPIN Do?

  • Challenges the way you think
  • Helps you fight burnout
  • Increases your productivity
  • Provides peer-to-peer resources
  • Helps you break out of the senior-planner rut
  • Provides opportunities to meet direct peers
  • Enables you to solve your challenges with peers
  • Helps you re-engage and re-energize
  • Provides an environment where the focus is strictly on senior-level planners for a change!

Everything we do is BY senior-level planners, 
FOR senior-level planners.  

We are not all things to all people; we're just for senior-level planners. We value your membership, and your membership has value.   

As a member of SPIN, you have a voice in every major decision.  Our "Board" is 2,500 members, not a dozen or so trying to guess what you want and need.  We have no 100-year-old mission statement that we dust off every now and then.  We are constantly evolving and based on YOUR needs, because we are senior-level planners, too.  

Each quarter in more than a dozen North American cities, SPIN leads education/networking gatherings (we call them SPIN Think Tanks) for fellow members, with CEU-accredited discussions on topics that matter to you, because the topics come from you and your peers.    

What Members Are Saying

"I love the networking opportunities. It is a great forum for getting (and offering up) ideas from experienced planners... helping me to become better & more efficient at what I love to do!"  
- Member Wendy L. 

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Member Ginger P.
"I appreciate that we speak a shared language and don't have to define what we mean. We understand each other based on deep experience." 
"I consider SPIN to be the most valuable networking vehicle for our industry.  Thank you so much for setting up such an invaluable resource."  
- Member Patti F.

  

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Member Christy L.
"I appreciate that the goal of SPIN is truly to open doors, assist in communication, find new ways to do things and help each of us learn, grow and improve." 




"Typically planners work by themselves or in small teams, so SPIN becomes invaluable for networking and peer to peer interaction." 
- Member Joanna J.

 

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Member Devon B.
"I love the ability to share ideas with other senior planners that otherwise I might not have access to. Also the access to SPINCon and the smaller more interactive educational sessions."