Burned Out and Budget-Cut: The Emotional Infrastructure of Event Organizing Is Cracking
The quiet crisis impacting the people who make experiences happen—and the movement fighting to protect them.
I want to begin this piece with a moment of personal reckoning.
A few weeks ago, I received a message from Janice Cardinale, founder of Event Minds Matter (EMM), a longtime industry peer and a Forbes-recognized changemaker. She wrote to me with a simple but pointed call for help:
