Larissa J. Schultz
CMP, MHA
CA, USAn advocate of education and further learning - providing hospitality industry speaking, training and consulting.
Larissa J. Schultz, CMP, MHA, is an advocate of continuing to grow through learning and forward momentum!
She has been actively involved in the hospitality, travel, tourism and meeting/event management industry for over 29 years and is the owner of Journey-Wide Travel & Events, LLC.
Previously, she was the founder/owner of LJS Meeting Strategies– a meeting management, training and consulting company based out of the Los Angeles area.
Her background and experience as a meeting planner includes working with corporations and associations planning both domestic and international conferences and meetings. She has been an active member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) for over 21 years and is a Past President of the Southern California Chapter Board of Directors.
Larissa has presented at a multitude of industry conventions, congresses, webinars, and conferences including PCMA, Best Events, MPI WEC, as well as regional MPI Chapter meetings and conventions across the country.
From 20011 - 2018 she was an adjunct professor at Glendale Community College teaching in the Hospitality and Tourism program.
Larissa J. Schultz, CMP, MHA, is an advocate of continuing to grow through learning and forward momentum!
She has been actively involved in the hospitality, travel, tourism and meeting/event management industry for over 29 years and is the owner of Journey-Wide Travel & Events, LLC.
Previously, she was the founder/owner of LJS Meeting Strategies– a meeting management, training and consulting company based out of the Los Angeles area.
Her background and experience as a meeting planner includes working with corporations and associations planning both domestic and international conferences and meetings. She has been an active member of Meeting Professionals International (MPI) for over 21 years and is a Past President of the Southern California Chapter Board of Directors.
Larissa has presented at a multitude of industry conventions, congresses, webinars, and conferences including PCMA, Best Events, MPI WEC, as well as regional MPI Chapter meetings and conventions across the country.
From 20011 - 2018 she was an adjunct professor at Glendale Community College teaching in the Hospitality and Tourism program.
Diversity and Inclusion in Meetings
- Planners struggling with how to incorporate inclusiveness and diversity in their meetings
- Suppliers wanting to collaborate with planners on ensuring diversity and inclusion in their meetings.
- A better knowledge of the 11 forms of diversity in society as they impact meetings and events.
- New ideas...
Building Successful Cross Cultural Teams
With the global economy advancing in leaps and bounds through the enhancement of technology and communications-mono-cultural teams are a thing of the past.
Effectively building and supporting cross-cultural teams is of utmost importance in today's business environment. Preparing and understanding the individual team members' culture, mind set, cultural strengths, differences and communication styles can increase the chances for a well-run team environment.
Loss of team...
Why Manners Matter: A Discussion on the Lack of Interational Etiquette
As global business continues to expand, understanding the cultural dynamics of a country can be helpful to provide insight into why people act the way they do and the appropriate way you should act while in the country or working with individuals from other countries.
Etiquette is all about human social behavior. Each country has a "code of behavior" which covers the right and wrong, improper and respectful ways to act and behave. This code is passed down from generation to...
Across the Pond & Beyond - Cross-cultural Negotiation
CMP: 1.5 hours Domain A: Strategic Planning
International negotiation has multiple complexities working with both the environmental and immediate contexts affecting the negotiator and the negotiation process. Effective international negotiators understand and manage these contexts.
By conceptualizing culture and focusing on its influences, the negotiator can see culture's effect on the outcomes, the process, the individual cognition and ethics. With an awareness...
6 Degrees of What I Need
We all have needs. Projects, things, goals we need to attain and complete. What if you could meet in a group environment and purposely work towards having a specific need met?
This interactive session does just that by ensuring attendees leave beginning to have their need met, and they have been given the opportunity to help another individual meet their own need.
The theory of Six Degrees of Separation provides the loose foundation on which this session generates from,...
Beyond The Tradeshow - Becoming Relevant
In our society today, planners have the ability to fine-tune how they interact with friends, families, work colleagues and with vendors. Information is readily at our fingertips and we can quickly gain information ourselves on suppliers prior to even meeting a supplier in person.
Because of this, planners are getting more specific on what they need and what they want as well as more educated on what companies can provide. In turn they are expecting you, the supplier, to fine-tune...
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