Meeting Partner of the Year

NSA’s Meeting Partner of the Year Award is given to a professional who builds strong ties within the meetings industry and fosters relationships with professional speakers. Recipients are selected for their leadership, education and integrity they bring to the meetings industry.

Past Meeting Partner of the Year recipients are:

• Kris Young, Martin Bastian Productions
• Joan Eisenstodt, Eisenstodt Associates, LLC 
• Brian Palmer of the National Speakers Bureau
• Nancy Woolever, SPHR of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM);
• Joan Tezak, CMP, CAE of the Colorado Society of Association Executives (CSAE);
• Betty Garrett of President/CEO of Garrett Speakers International;
• Dan Maddux of the American Payroll Association;
• Tom McWilliams, CCUE, CMP, of the Mississippi Credit Union;
• Colleen Rickenbacher, CMP, of the Dallas Convention and Visitors Bureau;
• Karen Lewis Clarke, CMP, of the Million Dollar Round Table;
• Sheilah Harrison of the American Financial Services Association;
• Jean Baier of Miller Freedman;
• Ed Griffin, Jr., CAE, of Meeting Professionals International;
• Marilyn Monroe, CAE, of the Texas Society of Association Executives; and Susan Sarfati, CAE, of the Greater Washington Society of Association Executives