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Success Story: Celebrating Excellence in Puerto Rico

The Event: A biopharmaceutical company hosts a “Circle of Excellence” incentive event for 41 participants. Challenges: The company’s new planning team, in partnership with Miller Tanner Associates (MTA), established goals based on insights learned from the previous year’s event. MTA took the time to understand the customer’s concerns and developed innovative solutions to ensure the event would be a success. The solutions included a robust communication plan, on-site touchpoints with MTA, expanded activity options, and a one-of-a-kind interactive experience to elevate the incentive event. Highlights: The success of this incentive...

Success Story: Shared Success for Two Hybrid Investigator Meetings

The Event: As part of a two-program series for our customer, a life science company, MTA planned and executed hybrid investigator meetings in both North America and Europe for a total of 147 in-person attendees and an additional 21 joining virtually. The meetings took place in both Chicago and Barcelona, central locations for global attendees. Challenges: Our team had a condensed planning period of less than six weeks for each program. The transparency requirements, venue availability, costs, virtual accessibility, and complex logistics (attendees for the EU program were coming from...

Meet MTA: Lexus Mac Dannald, Staff Accountant

The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Staff Accountant Lexus Mac Dannald with our Finance Team. Lexus’s role is to assist our Finance Team with internal and external accounting operations, keeping our processes running smoothly and efficiently. Meet Lexus Mac Dannald Tell us about your current role with MTA. What are your primary responsibilities? I handle payroll, accounts receivable,...

Meet MTA: Oksana Kostiuk, Global Experience Specialist

The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Specialist Oksana Kostiuk, our European-based associate. With a background in logistics and business travel, Oksana assists in delivering best-in-class customer service at MTA. Meet Oksana Kostiuk Tell us about your current role with MTA? What are your primary responsibilities? As a global experience specialist, I’m responsible for communication and follow-up...

Success Story: How VALTs Delivered Tailored Training to 2,500+ HCPs for an International Study Series

The Event: Our customer, a pharmaceutical company, launched a series of international studies with the goal to ensure that all study sites, study coordinators, and/or HCPs involved had access to: The Solution: Using MTA’s proprietary tool, VALTs Virtual Assessment Learning and Training Source, our team designed a robust online system for managing our customer’s training content that met all requirements as defined by the customer. The Results: “Finding a solution that provided our customer with one point to access the data across multiple studies and sites with a lot of...

Meet MTA: Lauren Stagner, Global Experience Designer – Events

The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Designer – Events Lauren Stagner. Lauren is a pro at bringing people together collaboratively to create meaningful experiences with intentionality and exceptionality. Meet Lauren Stagner, Global Experience Designer – Events Strengths (based on CliftonStrengths): Connectedness, Relator, Strategic, Input, Intellection Languages spoken:English (fluent) and some (conversational) Spanish Tell us about your...

Success Story: Congress Management in Denmark

The Event: A global healthcare company hosted various meetings throughout the week at the annual European Lung Cancer Congress (ELCC) in Denmark. The Challenge: Given our customer’s challenges, which included an abbreviated timeframe, budget limitations, and lack of internal planning resources, they reached out to the Miller Tanner Associates team to assist as project lead offering logistical support and strategic congress management to be executed within a 2 ½ month timeframe. The Solution: The MTA team stepped into action to coordinate pre-event logistics for on-site congress management of multiple events,...

Success Story: Double the Success – Achievers’ Clubs in St. Martin and Venice, Italy

The Event: Our customer, a clinical research organization, needed assistance planning two separate, concurrent, 4-day incentive trips for their Achievers’ Club in both Europe and US markets. Understanding our customer’s goals of connection and reward, Miller Tanner Associates began sourcing for the two incentive events in summer of 2022 for the spring 2023 events. Challenges: Why Vendor Partnerships Are Important Typically, European hotels are closed from November to March which can make planning challenging. This can impact site visits and coordination. The MTA Team worked closely with the hotel partner...

Meet MTA: Dina Stezhka, Global Experience Designer – Events

The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Global Experience Designer – Events Dina Stezhka, our France-based associate. In her role, Dina is attentive to our customers’ event needs, ensuring their events are on track and running smoothly from start to finish. Meet Dina Stezhka, Global Experience Designer – Events Strengths (based on CliftonStrengths): Focus, Positivity, Significance, Includer, Restorative Languages...

Meet MTA: Ciara Redden, Key Account Manager (EU)

The Miller Tanner Associates’ (MTA) difference is our people. That’s why we want to introduce you to our team of superstars that brings our corporate meetings and events to life for our customers. Today we introduce you to Key Account Manager (EU) Ciara Redden, our associate based in Ireland. Combining her years of experience in the hospitality industry with her panache for relationship building, Ciara supports and navigates our clients throughout their event planning process with attentiveness and ease. Meet Ciara Redden Tell us about your current role with MTA....