Professional Development & Training for the Event and Meeting Industry
Facilitated & Self-Paced Course Topics
Expand your knowledge while earning CMP hours and certificates with today’s most relevant education topics for in-person, hybrid, and virtual events.
Participate in scheduled 4-10 week facilitated training or start on your own schedule with on-demand, self-paced certificate courses or view tools and resources in our Knowledge Hub.
Event Management
Whether you need foundational basics or advanced content for your event management role, Event Leadership Institute will help you earn the certifications you need to take your career to the next level.
Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals
Instructed by Kevin White
This 10-week facilitated certificate course offers a thorough understanding of how events work, why people and companies host events, how the industry is configured, and how to strategically plan and coordinate a typical event from A to Z.
Hybrid & Virtual Event Director
Instructed by Heather Sharpe
This 4-week self-paced certificate course offers an introduction to platforms and equipment terminology; evaluating & organizing content, timelines and other deliverables; developing a show flow & production schedule; preparing backup plans; and how to direct/call a virtual or hybrid show.
Virtual Fundraising Event Management
Instructed by Lindsay Landman
This 4-module self-paced certificate course provides non-profit organizations with the knowledge, guidance, and tools required to transition live fundraising events to virtual environments successfully.
Special Event Design
Instructed by Lindsay Landman
This self-paced 10-module certificate course will lead you through high-level design techniques applicable to corporate, social, and nonprofit events. This course goes beyond aesthetics, helping you build a strong event design vocabulary that will enhance communication with clients, partners, and vendors.
Event Strategy & Success
From audience engagement to event analytics, Event Leadership Institute offers elevated training content to boost your knowledge and certifications on today’s most critical event strategies.
Advanced Event Design & Strategy
Instructed by Tammy Moore
This 6-week facilitated certificate course is designed to equip experienced event and meeting managers with the tools, resources, and business savvy to serve as a strategic advisor in designing, planning, and executing programs.
Digital Event Strategist (DES) Certification
Instructed by Joshua Butler
This self-paced 8-module certification course will teach you how to move past outdated digital event models and stay two steps ahead in a new landscape marked by innovative hybrid experiences and the arrival of the metaverse.
Event Measurement & Analytics
Instructed by Joe Colangelo and Vinnu Deshetty
This 5-week facilitated certificate course provides a step-by-step approach to mastering the art of event measurement, from event conception to post-event debrief. You’ll learn how to help stakeholders define event goals, identify ways to measure them and calculate an event’s ROI for all stakeholders.
Strategic Event Audience Engagement
Instructed by Beth Surmont, Megan Finnell, and Kimberly Hardcastle
This self-paced 3-module course is designed to provide events industry professionals with the knowledge and skills necessary to plan, design, and execute engaging event experiences.
Crisis Management & Risk Mitigation for Events
Instructed by Juliette Kayyem
This two-session (four hours each) live-online certificate course provides a personalized crisis management playbook tailored to your organization’s unique risks, as well as the confidence to navigate challenges both before and after your events.
Event Accessibility & DEI
Build your confidence on implementing elements of accessibility and diversity, equity, and inclusion into your events. Through Event Leadership Institute, you’ll gain best practices, deepen your understanding, and level up your certifications.
Event Accessibility Strategist
Instructed by Joshua Klipp
This 5-week facilitated certificate course is designed to support events industry professionals with the knowledge, skills, and know-how to transform your in-person and digital events so they are welcoming, accessible, and inclusive for everybody.
Accessibility Training for On-Site Event Staff
Instructed by Joshua Klipp
This self-paced course will teach you operationalize best practices in event accessibility, support individuals who present with a wide-range of disabilities, recognize and solve requests for accommodation and embrace opportunities to share knowledge with on-site personnel.
Event DEI Strategist
Instructed by Zoe Moore
This 7-week facilitated certificate course is designed for industry professionals looking to deepen their understanding of DEI practices as core practices both within their events and organizations. Gain skills to recognize, approach, intervene, and dismantle systems and processes that aren’t diverse, equitable, or inclusive.
DEI Reimagined: Forging the Path to Sustainable Inclusivity Training
Instructed by Sherron Washington
This three-part hybrid accelerated course offers an in-depth approach to building sustainable diversity, equity, and inclusion within organizations.
Event Technology & Innovation
As industry innovations continue to evolve, Event Leadership Institute will help you adapt to and leverage the latest technology advancements, ranging from AI platforms to event production.
Enhancing Events with AI
Instructed by Nick Borelli
This 5-week facilitated certificate course goes beyond helping you understand AI. We’ll take you behind the scenes, revealing how to use the most practical AI platforms. These new capabilities will transform how you plan, market, and execute events.
Technical Meeting & Event Production
Instructed by Brian Monahan
This 6-week facilitated certificate course will empower you to understand what kind of gear, staff, and set up your event actually needs to function properly, look right, and be cost-effective. Features include budgets, benefits, and technology concerns for hybrid events and managing remote presenters.
Event Sales & Growth
Invest in your business growth with Event Leadership Institute trainings for scaling entrepreneurship, building business strategies, and increased venue sales.
Event Entrepreneurship: Growth Strategies Training
Instructed by Howard Givner
In this self-paced 6-module course, learn strategies for how successful companies, both inside and outside the events industry, manage to grow into larger versions of themselves. We’ll dissect what it is that keeps most business owners from getting their companies to break out of their plateaus and hit that next stage of growth.
The Launching Pad: Building Your Event Business
Instructed by Heather Mason and Howard Givner
In this self-paced 6-module, 12-week certificate course, learn key competencies that are required for getting your business off the ground, from creating an initial business strategy and actionable goals to drafting budgets and obtaining financing.
Venue Sales Accelerator
Instructed by Howard Givner
In this self-paced 6-module certificate course, banquet, catering, or event sales managers responsible for booking their venues for private events, meetings, and conferences will gain the confidence and tools to navigate your clients’ needs, close more in-bound inquiries, and prospect to develop new leads.
Personal Development
Whether you're a team leader, organizational leader or event planner, ELI helps you discover actionable strategies to overcome challenges through a personalized roadmap for improvement.
Communicating Across Generations: Building Connections for Cohesive Workplace
Instructed by Sherron Washington
This three-part, 3.5-hour facilitated and live online hybrid training is designed to help professionals enhance communication across generations within their teams.
Certified Meeting Professional Exam Prep
Earning the Events Industry Council’s Certified Meeting Professional (CMP) designation showcases your industry expertise to employers and clients and enhances prestige among peers. Identify and address knowledge and skills gaps, develop a personal learning plan, and prepare for the exam with Event Leadership Institute trainings.
CMP Exam Prep (Cohort)
Instructed by Carolyn Browning
This 12-week facilitated course provides comprehensive support for your entire CMP certification journey, including weekly live online class meetings, a peer-based community forum, self-paced weekly content, and access to on-demand videos to support additional knowledge retention.
CMP Exam Prep (Self-Paced)
Instructed by Carolyn Browning
This self-paced course is designed to provide you with the strategies, resources, and knowledge to be successful when sitting for the CMP exam. Includes on-demand learning, an online practice exam and 1 year of on-demand access.
All Event Leadership Institute Courses
Event Management
Event & Meeting Management Fundamentals
Facilitated
Hybrid & Virtual Event Director
Self-Paced
Virtual Fundraising Event Management
Self-Paced
Special Event Design
Self-Paced
Event Strategy & Success
Advanced Event Design & Strategy
Facilitated
Digital Event Strategist (DES) Certification
Self-Paced
Event Measurement & Analytics
Facilitated
Strategic Event Audience Engagement
Self-Paced
Crisis Management and Risk Mitigation for Events
Live Online
Event Accessibility & DEI
Event Accessibility Strategist
Facilitated
Accessibility Training for On-Site Event Staff Course
Self-Paced
Event DEI Strategist
Self-Paced
DEI Reimagined: Forging the Path to Sustainable Inclusivity Training
Hybrid
Event Technology & Innovation
Enhancing Events with AI
Facilitated
Technical Meeting & Event Production
Facilitated
Event Sales & Growth
Event Entrepreneurship: Growth Strategies Training
Self-Paced
The Launching Pad: Building Your Event Business
Self-Paced
Venue Sales Accelerator
Self-Paced
Personal Development
Communicating Across Generations: Building Connections for Cohesive Workplace
Facilitated & Live Online Hybrid
Certified Meeting Professional Exam Prep
CMP Exam Prep
Facilitated
CMP Exam Prep
Self-Paced
