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.

What is really happening behind the smiles?

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: