Probably not. Why? Because aside from not wanting to make a trip to the emergency room, you want the trees to remain standing.

The same is true of meetings. For too long meetings have had a bad reputation – you know the jokes –

It is precisely because meetings are such powerful mediums that they can go so terribly wrong. It takes experience and skill to know how to properly plan and organize a meeting.
Many companies learn the hard way not to leave the planning of meetings to people for whom they are one more task on a long list of things to do.

Meetings are what we do. They are all we do.

Canadian Meeting Professionals Inc. offers complete and comprehensive meeting, event planning and event management services customized to meet your unique business needs. Whether you want to add adventure to your meeting or meaning to your event, Canadian Meeting Professionals Inc. will make it happen.

	Asking the right questions takes as much skill as giving the right answers. - Robert Half

Is there a difference between an off-the-rack suit or dress and something that is tailor-made or professionally altered? (For women only - think one size fits all panty hose.)

Meetings are no different. You can pick up the phone and call a hotel and choose between packages A, B, or C (most of which are like the Chinese Dinner for 4 – chock full of items no one wants) or you can call us.

To take the Chinese take-out analogy one step further - (and then we promise to let it go) - a lot of people pick the Dinner for 4 because the list of menu items is too overwhelming and they have no idea what is actually in Pie-Pa Duck - other than duck, of course. But imagine if you had someone there who not only had tried each of the dishes, but also knew that spicy food gives you indigestion whereas your dining partner once won a free meal for eating an entire jar of chilli sauce in ten minutes.

Think of us as being the meeting-planning equivalent of the Designer Guys (as opposed to the high school student working in the paint and wallpaper section of your local department store). We come in, find out who you are, what you do and what you want to achieve and then we make it all happen.

It is just common sense to assume that a retreat for a group of executives with a multi-national conglomerate and one for the manufacturers of natural herbal products should not be the same. But we it one step farther. We argue that the retreat for herbal execs in one company should not be the same as the retreat for the herbal execs in another – after all your companies are not the same even if your products are similar.