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These individuals have driven SMMP
in their companies, advanced their roles as meeting pros, and are helping to take our industry to the next level.
Everyone has the ability to create positive change, both in their careers and in their industry. These 20 individuals have gained visibility among senior management in their companies by initiating strategic meetings management programs, developing companywide policies and practices, leveraging volume, and maximizing savings. They are shining examples of advancing their roles beyond logistics to focus on strategy and ROI. Cognizant of their ability to make a difference, they have also reached beyond their own four walls to influence the entire profession as educators, spokespeople, mentors, and leaders.
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And the Winners Are …
Lee Ann Adams Mikeman
Assistant vice president, conference planning and special events
Science Applications International Corp.
Debbie Boschee, CMP
Vice president, conference and meeting services
Prudential Financial Inc.
Beth Cooper-Zobott
Director, conference services
Equity Residential
Jack Eichhorn
Global director of meeting services
Oracle Corp.
Pamela J. Ferranti
Manager, meeting management solutions
Xerox Corp.
Aleka Garcia, CMP, CMM
Account supervisor
Pacific Communications
Joann Kerns
Associate director of global meeting management
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Patricia Kerr, CMP
Director, distribution
sales support
Manulife Financial Co.
Kelli Livers, CMP
Director, global meeting services
AIG Inc.
Carol Muldoon
Director of meeting services
KPMG International
Camille Paluscio, CMP
Manager-travel, meetings, and events
Volkswagen Group of America Inc.
Patty Reger, CMM
Manager, meetings and conventions
Johnson & Johnson Sales & Logistics Co.
N. Lynn Ridzon, CTC
Director, strategic global meetings management
Amgen Inc.
Kathy Rust
Vice president, corporate meetings and events
Washington Mutual Inc.
Debi Scholar, CMM, CMP, CTE, CTT
Meeting and event services director
Arlene Sheff, CMP
Senior meeting and event planner
The Boeing Co.
Michele Snock, CMM
Manager, finance learning and development programs
Cisco Systems Inc.
Paul Tomaszeski
Executive director of business support services
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
Barry Wolpa
Vice president, meetings and incentive trips
Genworth Financial Inc.
Todd Zint, CMP, CMM
Vice president, meetings and event marketing
NFP Insurance Services Inc.
Our Advisory Board
Betsy Bondurant, CMP, CMM, president, Bondurant Consulting, Coronado, Calif.
Joan Eisenstodt, founder and chief strategist, Eisenstodt Associates, Washington, D.C .
Julie Johnson, CMP, CMM, director, events and incentives, Lennox International Worldwide Heating & Cooling Inc., Richardson, Texas
Debi Scholar, CMM, CMP, CTE, CTT, meeting and event services director, PricewaterhouseCoopers, New York
Michele Snock, CMM, manager, finance learning and development programs, Cisco Systems Inc., San Jose, Calif.
Pamela Wynne, CMP, CMM, vice president of client services, EMC Venues, Annapolis, Md.
Lee Ann Adams Mikeman
Assistant vice president, conference planning and special events
Science Applications International Corp.
McLean, Va.
PAST Adams Mikeman started out as administrative assistant/conference planner at SAIC 20 years ago, and she now oversees a team of six who coordinate more than 500 meetings, conferences, and special events annually.
CRED She recognized in the mid-1990s that "there was a real void in available internal resources to help professionally coordinate meetings, conferences, and special events for SAIC managers and contracted clients." Now, with her strategic meetings management program firmly established, she is focused on improving compliance and adoption of the program and updating meeting policies to stay current.
SUCCESS STORY She won't forget assisting the company with Listing Day logistics when it went public on the New York Stock Exchange in October 2006. "I got choked up when they rang the bell and I saw the SAIC logo and our leaders on the podium," she recalls. "It was a once-in-a-lifetime event and a momentous occasion for our company and me, personally."
FORWARD-THINKING The next step? To establish a successful preferred-supplier program for groups/meetings to help the company leverage its spending.
ADVICE: Her career path has followed the advice that she offers to newly minted planners: "Mission, Passion, Metrics. Set a mission, be passionate about achieving it, measure your performance, and don't give up!"
Debbie Boschee, CMP Vice president, conference and meeting services
Prudential Financial Inc.
Plymouth, Minn.
PAST Boschee joined Prudential in 1976; she became a meeting planner in 1983. She has held a number of administrative positions with the company and was promoted to vice president in 2007.
CRED In 2000, Boschee helped to begin the centralization of Prudential's meetings operations. After a process involving countless interviews with planners within the company and the industry, as well as studying and analyzing financials, meeting spend, and vendor/supplier relationships, she put together a plan to bring the company's disparate meeting functions together. This led to the formation of a centralized meeting department in 2002. Boschee has also been active with Financial & Insurance Conference Planners, serving as its president in 2003-2004.
SUCCESS STORY "When I took over the meeting-planning department, I had a different managing philosophy, and that was challenging for many of my people to adapt to and accept," says Boschee. "But seeing them grow and blossom, become strategic thinkers, advance and be promoted, and become involved in the industry has given me a great sense of accomplishment."
MENTORS While handling meetings for Prudential's learning services department, Boschee had a supervisor "who was the first person I worked for who actually understood that meeting planning was a profession. She also challenged me to think strategically. She was always very direct in her feedback to me, which was often painful, but she really pushed me and made me more accountable."ADVICE "Someone once told me that you need to under-promise and over-deliver. Everyone in my department has that posted on their computer monitors."
Beth Cooper-Zobott
Director, conference services
Equity Residential
PAST Cooper-Zobott, who is multilingual, worked for various international companies, helping their marketing teams develop a synergy between international and American events, before landing at Equity in June 1998 as the company's first full-time meeting planner.
CRED Working with the vice presidents of her company's communications, education, and organizational development departments, she has homed in on the messages that the company delivers at its meetings to ensure that they are consistent on a global level and resonate with attendees in the field. She has also been responsible for moving the company to online meeting registrations, developing conference Web sites, and establishing an online platform for conference evaluations.
FORWARD-THINKING As a department of one, planning 30 to 60 events a year, Cooper-Zobott handles the tactical and strategic elements of meetings. She is currently evaluating the viability of an SMMP, as well as exploring the use of virtual media such as Second Life as a means to incorporate new learning and social networking aspects into her conferences. Green meetings are also on her radar; she is pursuing ways to make her events more sustainable and to quantify the environmental benefits of these actions.
GIVING BACK In addition to speaking to meeting-planning students at Roosevelt University, she organizes a raffle at her company's year-end holiday party where the money raised goes to charity.
MENTORS "Working with my fellow planners and seeing what they have done in their own companies has helped me become more strategic at Equity." Some of those contacts include Patty Reger, sales meeting manager, Johnson & Johnson; Sharon Marsh, program sourcing manager for meetings and events at VeriSign; and Camille Paluscio, manager of travel, meetings and events at Volkswagen.
Jack Eichhorn
Global director of meeting services
Oracle Corp.
Redwood Shores, Calif.
PAST As a planning pro in the high-tech industry, Eichhorn understands all too well the importance of data mining. That was one of the reasons he was brought on board at Oracle in 2006 — to get his arms around the international spend for the company's 7,000 annual meetings.
CRED Eichhorn has brought many of the ideas he used at his former company, Cisco Systems, to bear at Oracle, focusing on strategic meetings management initiatives by choosing Carlson Marketing Worldwide to centralize sourcing while also selecting preferred hotel partners. His ace in the hole is negotiating with hotels — he spent a decade in sales at Marriott Corp. before switching to the corporate planning side.
SUCCESS STORY Some of his greatest achievements have centered around crises he has dealt with on-site. At one particularly problem-fraught meeting several years ago, Eichhorn had one attendee airlifted to a hospital, met with the local police chief after another attendee's police cruiser "joy ride," dealt with property security staff after an attendee altercation, and almost lost a dinner location because of high seas.
"In the end, it was a terrific event," he says. "The SVP was ecstatic about the outcome, and he went above and beyond with his appreciation because of his knowledge of all the extra 'activities' I was forced into managing."
FORWARD-THINKING Developing a key area of expertise has helped him ride out the tech crash and current downturn. "When the economy became challenging in the 2001-2002 time frame … I was very aware of the limited job security associated with meeting planners — especially those whom I knew within the high-tech industry," he recalls. "I realized that subject matter expertise is more important than ever during tough times."
ADVICE "You need to differentiate yourself from the crowd. Unfortunately, in my experience, I have learned that a wide variety of people still just consider themselves to be 'meeting planners.'"
Joann Kerns
Associate director of global meeting management
Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
Plainsboro, N.J.
PAST Kerns moved from an administrative position at McGettigan (now Maritz) to a senior account management position, managing the Bristol-Myers Squibb account, and then was recruited by BMS in 1995 to become an in-house meeting manager. In her current role, she manages all international medical, congress, and association meetings with external participants.
CRED It took Kerns only a few short years to get to a level in her career that often takes people decades. In that time, she had advanced to a senior leadership role at BMS and was instrumental in helping the company to develop a fully consolidated process for managing its internal and external meetings. She serves on several executive committees that help to shape the processes for meetings management, and she takes part in business planning sessions with the U.S. and global marketing teams.
FORWARD-THINKING Her goals include ramping up the company's global meetings management program. She participates on the corporate user and steering committees to design and shape technology resources to enhance operational excellence and to improve processes for tracking and reporting data.
GIVE BACK Kerns is always happy to take time to speak with college kids from Temple University, New York University, Cornell, and other schools who are pursuing careers in meeting planning. She tells the students: "Finish school. Push your education as far as you can take it."
MENTORS "I was trained by the best," says Kerns. Specifically Lynn Ridzon, Kerns' former boss at BMS, who has since taken the role of director of strategic sourcing and procurement at Amgen. Also: Christine Duffy, CEO of Maritz; many of the senior leadership at McGettigan; and her friend and brother-in-law, Mark Phillips, an executive at StarCite.
Patricia Kerr, CMP Director, distribution sales support
Manulife Financial Co.
Waterloo, Ontario
PAST Kerr joined Manulife in 1995 as a junior meeting planner after four years in a nonmeeting planning position at another financial services company.
CRED During her tenure, her department has grown from a one-person operation that handled one outsourced annual incentive program to a 15-member department that plans 300 meetings a year. A member of Financial & Insurance Conference Planners since 1995, she was elected to the board of directors in 2005 and is currently the organization's president.
SUCCESS STORY "I spearheaded a project in which we took a look at our annual meetings and tried to cut costs by negotiating multiyear deals," says Kerr. "I remember sitting with senior management, telling them what I wanted to do, how much money we could save over a three-year period, and having them look at me and ask, 'We can really do that?' That was the first time that senior management looked at us as more than glorified party planners. It was a significant moment, and we've been able to build on it."
FORWARD-THINKING Kerr is working on implementing a long-term, large-conference strategy. "Organizationally, we've gone from one incentive conference 10 years ago to six incentive conferences today. We're looking to see where we can find some synergy, not only from a cost perspective, but from a resource perspective." For example, senior management staff spend 35 days a year attending the company's incentive programs, and she hopes that by changing the way that these conferences are structured and scheduled, that time can be reduced to seven days.
ADVICE "You need to have a passion for this profession. There are going to be days when you are up at 5 in the morning and don't go to bed until 3 the next morning. So you will either love this business or learn to hate it. And there's nothing wrong with you if do end up hating it, but developing that passion is what will separate the good from the not-so-good planners."
Carol Muldoon
Director of meeting services
KPMG International
Montvale, N.J.
PAST Before joining KPMG, Mul-doon was an event manager for the Muscular Dystrophy Association, where her responsibilities included the annual Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon. She started with KPMG 22 years ago as planner of small training events in a group of three, and now directs a 100-member operation.
CRED In 1998, KPMG's senior management, concerned with the number of meetings and programs happening at the local level without much oversight, asked Muldoon to look into rationalizing the process. "It was a big moment in my career," she says. "I ran some focus groups internally and put together a proposal to fully centralize our meeting needs. The company's CFO and AFO supported the plan, and that was really the inception of what I would consider to be our SMMP program." Last year, her role expanded significantly as she presided over the merger of the company's event marketing departments and meetings services department.
SUCCESS STORY "As an individual planner, I used to have full responsibility for the firm's annual partner meeting, and to have the chairman of the firm recognize the value I brought to putting that meeting on was extremely important. As a manager, being able to grow our department and be seen as a real partner by our internal clients and company leaders has been a real achievement."
FORWARD-THINKING Her new meetings department is a year old, and "we've tracked a lot of data. The key is what we do with that data." The goal is to better leverage spend with suppliers and to extend the small meetings program to more cities. She is also on the steering committee for a new in-house training center KPMG is developing, "and I'm looking forward to being involved in its design and operation."
ADVICE "Don't just accept that things are the way they are and can't be changed. Seek out new opportunities."
Camille Paluscio, CMP Manager — travel, meetings and events
Volkswagen Group of America Inc.
Herndon, Va.
PAST Paluscio has worked for Volkswagen since the early 1980s, with the exception of four years when she ran her own company in the 1990s. At press time, she was juggling her new position as manager of travel, meetings, and events with her company's move from Auburn Hills, Mich., to Herndon, Va. In addition to collaborating with the company's human resources department on "look and see" trips for personnel who are changing locations, she is moving to Virginia, although most of her department will remain in Michigan.
CRED In 1999, Paluscio and a former boss proposed a new combined travel, meeting planning, and events department at VW. "We had talked about it off and on for years, and then one day we realized we should present a formal proposal." Once the department was created, Paluscio spent the first few years wrapping her arms around meeting logistics. But once she started trying to gather data "and found that we weren't capturing the spend in any one place, I knew that I couldn't talk to suppliers from a position of knowledge." Enter SMMP. "I realized that we needed to gather information, and then in my research, I came across SMMP, and it all made logical sense," she says.
SUCCESS STORY "Once SMMP caught upper management's attention and opened everyone's eyes to the possibilities of real savings — I knew consolidation made sense, but it was a real achievement when my company recognized it as well."
FORWARD-THINKING Her next challenge is continuing to grow a close relationship with procurement.
Patty Reger, CMM Manager, meetings and conventions
Johnson & Johnson Sales & Logistics Co.
Skillman, N.J.
PAST Reger developed an SMMP at her former company, Pfizer Consumer Healthcare, which was purchased in 2006 by Johnson & Johnson, and the two companies' departments were integrated into one. "Every corporation has its own processes in place, and it makes sense that the group we joined had its own way of doing things," she says. And an SMMP wasn't part of that way.
Back in 2004, with Pfizer, Reger was the epitome of the SMMP advocate. "I wrote my business plan for my CMM on creating an SMMP in my former company. Then I sold the plan up through senior management and gained approval to develop and lead a cross-functional team to develop the plan into reality," she says. "We launched the team, and in its first year, we achieved 15 percent savings over the previous year."
SUCCESS STORY She applied for and was accepted to Meeting Professionals International's board of directors and became involved in public speaking and teaching. "Taking control of my destiny and finding a way to remain relevant in my career and life has been my greatest career achievement."
FORWARD-THINKING Reger is working on employing some SMMP elements when it makes sense. "I feel we're making progress again, moving forward, and gaining some traction," she says. She also requested and was granted an active role in the development of content for an 800-person national sales meeting as a way to "employ the strategy part of my skill set." Not only did the end result lead to "an incredible sense of personal satisfaction," but kudos that couldn't be matched when her vice president said to her, "You have just completely redefined the role of meeting planning as we know it."
Kathy Rust
Vice president corporate meetings and events
Washington Mutual Inc.
Seattle, Wash.
PAST Rust began her career in the travel business, and over time transitioned to event travel and finally event management. After spending time managing a travel agency, she left the U.S. for a number of years, living in both Haiti and Québec. Upon her return to the event business, she went to work for American Express managing its event travel team, and then moved to Microsoft as an event travel manager, where she ended up managing Microsoft's global travel program for four years. She moved to WaMu in 2005.
CRED Her experience working with the Groups and Meetings Committee of the National Business Travel Association helped to give Rust a good understanding of what it took to implement a strategic meetings management program at a corporate level. "I understood the need to manage spend, collect data, and implement good policies, but I never had the chance to implement them at Microsoft. When I went to WaMu, its strategic meetings management program was in its infancy, and I've been able to formalize the use of technology, develop a preferred-vendors program, work with key planners to collect data, and establish more effective communications."
SUCCESS STORY Rust recalls her early days at Microsoft, when her team took over some business that was beyond the scope of what they were supposed to be able to handle. "We got the business, pulled the program together, and changed the whole momentum of our team. We grew from three to 18 persons, and instead of handling meetings with 3,000 people, we had meetings of up to 15,000."
FORWARD-THINKING At WaMu, she is once again in a position to effect change. "I came here at a great time. It's exciting to see us tighten up our meeting infrastructure and make tools work. With the team we have now, we have a strong voice at the table, and we'll be in a strong position to influence our key executives."
Debi Scholar, CMM, CMP, CTE, CTT Meeting and event services director
Florham Park, N.J.
PAST A hospitality intern at Disney World during her college years, Scholar spent 20 years working in training and development at Westinghouse Furniture Systems, Dean Witter, and her own company. She started in the training realm at PwC but moved to the meetings department in 2002.
CRED With a policy dating to 1999, PwC was an early adopter of strategic meetings management. For the past two years, Scholar has been driving a Six Sigma project in PwC's meeting department to control spend and improve service. She is co-chairwoman of the National Business Travel Association's Groups and Meetings Committee and serves on the NBTA Foundation Board of Trustees. Scholar also participates on the Meeting Competitive Advantage Forum, a best practice and benchmarking team composed of 20 meetings-industry leaders from Fortune 100 companies.
SUCCESS STORY Applying SMMP in her present company: "I feel a huge sense of accomplishment from the millions of dollars we've been able to save in the last two years."
FORWARD-THINKING In the past few years, Scholar's department has become PwC's central webconferencing resource. Moving forward, she would like to help the company's meeting planners become more comfortable organizing meetings in the virtual world.
MENTORS Fellow members of the NBTA Groups and Meetings Committee, in particular Kari Knoll Kesler, global manager of meetings and events at Honeywell, and Madlyn Caliri, CPM, director, global procurement at Reed Elsevier, have been valuable mentors to Scholar, both for what they have taught her about strategic meetings management and for what they told her they cannot teach her. "They said to me, 'This is the way we do it, but you're going to have to figure out how an SMMP can work in your culture and environment.' One size doesn't fit all," says Scholar. In addition, her director, Kathy Murray, helped her to navigate through PwC stakeholders and is the executive sponsor for the SMMP.
Arlene Sheff, CMP Senior meeting and event planner
The Boeing Co.
Seal Beach, Calif.
PAST Sheff has spent a total of 32 years in the meetings industry, including stints as an association and government planner, followed by eight years at Bridgestone Tires. She also ran her own company, Meetings Etc., for 10 years before moving to Boeing nine years ago.
CRED Sheff has taught at about 18 MPI Institutes and countless local chapter events, as well as leading several college courses and initiating and teaching her very popular FUNdamentals of Meeting & Event Planning workshop series at The Boeing Co. A live wire in front of a group, she engages people before the event and makes sure that everyone participates.
"It has to be fun for me," she says, adding that she has found that if she asks the people in the audience to introduce themselves to the person sitting next to them, they are more likely to participate.
SUCCESS STORY Although she now counts it as one of the secrets to her success, public speaking did not come naturally. "Growing up, I would have stayed home from school rather than speak in front of the class," Sheff recalls. One day, a friend coerced her into teaching an F&B course for Hyatt at a local MPI chapter event, and she never looked back. "I was scared silly," she recalls, but the positive feedback gave her the confidence to try it again.
Her desire to share her experience contributed to one of her proudest moments when, last year, she received the 2007 Corporate Event Planner/Producer of the Year Event Solutions Spotlight Award. The thrill was even greater because one of her daughters, a catering manager, was in the audience for the ceremony. "I still get a smile on my face, goose bumps, and a tear in my eye when I think about the moment I heard my name called."
Paul Tomaszeski
Executive director of business support services
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp.
East Hanover, N.J.
PAST Tomaszeski began his career as a CPA at Novartis on the financial side of the business and moved into his current position 11 years ago.
CRED He was instrumental in developing a strategic meetings management program at Novartis in 2003 by forming a dedicated meeting solutions group for sourcing, planning, and contract-management expertise. Without a mandate, he worked hard to sell the value of the department internally, and his team now boasts upward of 90 percent compliance to the program. In January, he was also asked to become the North America travel manager for Novartis Group Cos. in the United States and Canada.\
SUCCESS STORY Executing a product launch meeting for 3,000 attendees in Dallas last June in just two weeks time. "That's start to finish," says Tomaszeski, from contracting to booking travel and executing meeting logistics. The crunch was due to an accelerated drug approval. "Once the approval came through, the drug needed to be launched immediately.'"
FORWARD-THINKING Looking ahead, he has his sights set on meetings beyond pharma: "We have specifically been focused on pharma meetings up until now. But there are other business units within Novartis Group Cos. in the U.S. that could benefit from our best-practice sharing. We are meeting with them and asking them how we can help them."
ADVICE "Throughout my career, I have never said no to any work that comes my way. Anything anyone has ever asked me to do, I find a way to do it."
Barry Wolpa
Vice president, meetings and incentive trips
Genworth Financial Inc.
San Francisco
PAST His wide-ranging career has included practicing law for four years; being a Club Med G.O. (director of entertainment) and salesman; and several positions as a marketing director.
CRED While working as marketing director for AMEX Life Insurance Co., he realized that he wanted to work on incentive programs. "I spoke to the president and was able to take on the responsibility for meetings and trips in addition to my position as marketing director." Even after the company was acquired by General Electric, he continued both until the late 1990s, when he realized "I wanted to be more strategic when it came to meetings and incentives, and it made sense to give away the marketing end to focus on that."
SUCCESS STORY While Wolpa loves the strategy and planning and relationships that go into meetings, his true love is incentive planning. "Creativity really comes into play with incentives," he says. "And I can really make a difference in the lives of the salespeople."
FORWARD-THINKING At press time, he was looking forward to his retirement, which coincided with an incentive trip planned for Beijing in May. "I'm ending my career with a dinner on the Great Wall of China on a night with a full moon," he says. "I expect it to be an emotional moment when the fireworks go off."
After that? "Nothing is off the table, and nothing is on the table," he says. "Somewhere out there lies my future."
Todd Zint, CPM, CMM Vice president, meeting and event marketing
NFP Insurance Services
Austin, Texas
PAST Three years ago, Zint started at NFP (which is a subsidiary of National Financial Partners Corp., based in New York) with a team of two meeting planners, supporting only the Austin distribution channels. But he had a vision of centralizing an NFP meeting-planning department into one fully integrated shared resource. Today, he heads a team of five who project manage, plan, and implement more than 100 meetings a year for the entire company.
CRED To consolidate the department, Zint drew on past experiences, including his 2001 acquisition of the CMM designation.
"When I first moved into management, one of my greatest challenges was letting go of the meeting logistics and transitioning into thinking and acting strategically," he says, noting that part of the CMM coursework involved writing an internal SMMP. "Now," he says, "SMMP is my day-to-day priority, while empowering my team members to do what they do best. My quarterly goals emphasize improved processes and cost saving initiatives."
FORWARD-THINKING Zint would like eventually to oversee the company's travel management program, which NFP has recently launched companywide. "Meetings and travel are closely tied in many ways," he says. "For example, integrating online travel and procurement opportunities encompasses both areas. Managing this change is a natural progression for my career."
ADVICE Always think about what you can bring to the job next. "In each position that I've worked, I would reach a point where I realized that in order to move up, I needed to provide value and demonstrate that value in a strategic manner."
Pamela J. Ferranti
Manager, meeting management solutions
Xerox Corp.
Webster, N.Y.
PAST Before managing meeting consolidation for Xerox, a role that began in July 2004, Ferranti's 24-year career with the company included posts as travel services manager, marketing manager, and warehouse manager.
CRED After serving as the focal point for rolling out Xerox's online booking process for business travelers, the travel services veteran was tapped to create a similarly consolidated environment for managing the company's global meetings. Working with StarCite's meeting technology, Ferranti established the processes to track meetings activity across the 57,500-employee company. The meeting-consolidation program is in the midst of a global rollout, with Canada already on board and the European arena aligning their processes.
SUCCESS STORY At Xerox, "We don't like mandates," Ferranti says. Nevertheless, her department has created measures to make it more difficult for people to go off on their own and avoid the department's policies. Gradually, people have come around. Ferranti is proud to point to her department's satisfaction rating, which has climbed from 75 percent three years ago to 96 percent this spring.
FORWARD-THINKING Ferranti's department rolled out a green initiative in early 2008, significant not so much for its mission — energy and waste reduction for meeting and events — but for its metrics. The initiative sets specific quantifiable goals for each aspect of the environmental program and measures the outcome. For example, Ferranti has set specific 2008 targets for such things as badge recycling (50 percent), use of hotels with green policies (40 percent), transitioning face-to-face meetings to videoconferences (5 percent), and more.
GIVING BACK Ferranti volunteers as president of the board of directors of the Wayne County Fair, an annual six-day agricultural fair in Palmyra, N.Y. She is the first woman to hold the job in the fair's 152-year history. Last year, the event drew 16,000 visitors and more than 100 commercial exhibitors, in addition to hundreds of fair exhibitors.
Aleka Garcia, CMP, CMM Account supervisor
Pacific Communications
Costa Mesa, Calif.
PAST Meeting planning was pretty much the last thing she expected to do when Garcia was hired at Pacific Communications. Having spent five years on the road as a planner with CME Inc., she wanted to stay put for a while. But it quickly became apparent that her planning expertise was just what Pacific needed, and within six months, she was on a plane to manage a meeting in Barcelona. Just a few years later, she is an account supervisor, overseeing a staff of five to head the agency's Strategic Meeting Management group.
CRED Garcia created the SMM department herself "to strengthen the agency's offering while integrating all components of a program, beginning with the concept of the meeting through the final reconciliation of the program."
Her department is considered a core competency at the agency and billed as an offering to clients. This means she is included in monthly business planning meetings and client pitches.
SUCCESS STORY Garcia most enjoys seeing her staff get kudos from clients. "When a planner on my staff is recognized and thanked by the client for management and execution of an event, I start gushing with joy! It's an amazing thing to watch a coordinator/planner grow and evolve."
FORWARD THINKING Garcia realized early on that the key to getting a seat at the table was to talk the talk of her superiors. In particular, when Craig Sullivan, vice president and director of client services, joined the company, Garcia educated him on where her skills fit with the bottom line, even developing a billing matrix showing different client projects and how much more money handling meetings in-house would bring in.
"It was a little bit trying at first to learn the lingo, because he was a [marketing] guy," she recalls. "But the minute I could show the money that we were making, he was all over it."
Kelli Livers, CMP
Director, global meeting services
AIG Inc.
PAST Livers started out as an in-house planner at a small insurance company that was eventually acquired by AIG. She moved up through the ranks, and in January 2005 was chosen from among 60 meeting planners at the company to head a strategic meetings management program for AIG on a global level.
CRED In March 2006, she launched the SMMP for all U.S. offices. Just one year after the initial program rollout, her team was capturing between 80 percent and 85 percent of meeting spend — a huge accomplishment that she attributes in large part to strong support from senior management. Since that time, she has been fine-tuning and enhancing the technology and working to put global preferred-supplier agreements in place. In addition, she serves on the National Business Travel Association's Groups and Meetings Committee, where she participates in speaking engagements and contributes to white papers on strategic meetings management.
FORWARD-THINKING Livers put together a steering committee in the U.S. called the AIG Meeting and Event Travel Counsel, which consists of 15 department heads from each of AIG's major business units. The group gets together to evaluate preferred-supplier agreements domestically and make changes when necessary. "It's a commitment from these people. It gives them a voice in where our programs are going and ensures we have their buy-in and compliance."
GIVE BACK This self-described animal lover rescues homeless animals and brings them into her family, which includes her three children and many dogs, cats, and horses.
"I won't mention how many animals we have because people would get scared," she jokes.
N. Lynn Ridzon, CTC
Director, global meetings management
Amgen Inc.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.
PAST Before her move to Amgen in May 2007, Ridzon was director of global meeting management at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., where she worked for 21 years. Before that, she spent 10 years as a meeting planner and travel consultant with Revere Travel and six years as a reservations agent with Trans World Airlines.
CRED Since the early 1990s, Ridzon has been pioneering meetings-consolidation models. First for meetings within the Squibb Pharma Group, and then after the merger with Bristol-Myers, she grew the program to include all U.S.-based meeting requests within the company for all business units. Before leaving for Amgen, her department had embraced a process called consumption and specification management, which assesses meeting and travel consumption patterns to identify needs and eliminate unnecessary expenditures.
FORWARD-THINKING Ridzon sees two items at the top of the meetings industry's "to-do" list: First, improve the technology supporting hotel/planner communication. ("Hotels are generally archaic in terms of how they are able to respond to meeting requests, especially allocation of meeting space.") Second, create more clarity around strategic meetings management. "An SMMP means different things to different people," she says, noting that the industry needs consistency in SMMP practices and definitions to create reliable benchmarks for success.
GIVING BACK With many years of experience to share, Ridzon is conscientious about making time to answer the frequent calls she gets from planners breaking ground on SMMPs. "I talk to and counsel a lot of people," she says. She also participates in conferences as a speaker or moderator a couple of times a year. Ridzon is a member of ACTE and NBTA.
ADVICE "Don't set yourself up to be an order taker. Embrace the philosophy of a consolidated meeting environment and let others see you as a valued business partner." And, she says, an SMMP "doesn't happen from the bottom up; it happens top down." To get your ideas moving, you first need to be able to explain your rationale and relate that to your company's objectives.
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Cisco Systems Inc.
San Jose, Calif.
PAST Snock transitioned out of the meetings industry in late April while this article was under way, but her recognition as a CMI Changemaker comes from 20 years in meetings management, most recently as Cisco's global manager, meeting services. Before Cisco, she spent six years with Advanced Micro Devices, four years with Conference Planners (now part of George P. Johnson Co.), and started her career in the hotel industry.
CRED At Cisco, Snock is credited with restructuring the meetings department as a strategic organization, with consistent processes across the globe, and tracked cost savings in 2007 of $10 million. She was a member of the Meeting Competitive Advantage Forum and served on NBTA's Groups and Meetings Committee.
SUCCESS STORY Snock recalls a 1999 speaking invitation from the Northern California chapter of Meeting Professionals International. "They wanted someone to talk about the perspective of a finance organization in relation to meetings. I thought, 'Wow, someone thinks I have something to say.'" While that first invitation led to many more — about 20, she estimates, since 1999 — she'll always remember that initial time at the podium. "People asked a lot of questions. It was exciting."
GIVING BACK Snock plans to use her hospitality training (before she worked as a meeting planner, she spent 10 years in the hotel industry) as a volunteer for a three-day walk for breast cancer coming up in September. She'll be working in the food service area, sleeping in a tent, helping to support the walkers. "I love to serve," she says.
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Alabama is rebuilding its offensive line, and AJ McCarron's chief backup at quarterback is a former running back who is biding time until the younger arms are ready. Also, the defense is relatively new.
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To the right of the complex is a white hospice building where the near death await their final hour so that they might have their feet placed in the holy Bahgmati river while they die, so that their spirit may escape on to paradise.
After this the family wraps the body & prepares to place it on the funeral pyre they've built. The height of the pyre is representative of how wealthy the family was since the wood must be bought & transported to the temple.
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Pashupati is somewhat paradoxal. On one side of the river are devout Hindus, worshiping their gods & mourning their loved ones & across the river are peddlers, beggars, tourists & those Hindus who are there just to blow some time. It is of some note that Bob Dylan wrote "Knocking on Heavens Door" while watching the cremations at Pashupati. If you go, spend some time in reflection.
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This is the must-see temple complex of Pashupatinath --- Temple of the God Pashupati. There are many legends to recount and many stories to be told here --- it's far better to visit with a professional guide.
As you gaze at the shrine-covered hill rising beyond the holy Bagmati River, a puff of white smoke drifts in from the right. Walking further, you'll discover that its the smoke from riverside crematory fires. The cremations --- a Hindu tradition --- are worth their own journal entry.
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Near the river stand the gaths where the bodies of dead are burned, ashes follow the flood until the holy Gange. During the funeral ceremony I met a strange Sadhu who proposed to lift a 50 kg stone with his you know what! I declined his proposal so I didn't know if he was able to do so.
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Nobody would buy that anyway, and the he'd get suspended for lying about injuries.
Pops 3 best players getting minor injures all off camera at the same time would get investigated, trust me.
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Nobody would buy that anyway, and the he'd get suspended for lying about injuries.
Pops 3 best players getting minor injures all off camera at the same time would get investigated, trust me.
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If Stern is apologizing about star players not playing, he needs to apologize to all those Indiana fans who bought 2004-2005 season tickets and all businesses that bought advertising from the Pacers that year. Of course that will never happen. Stern is such a dick.
To add to that point:
The league is already at a disadvantage tonight because of the Saints-Falcons game. The NFL is already an inherently more popular sport, and those are two fairly popular teams who also happen to be in the same division. One has only lost one game, and the other won the championship just three years ago and has one of the league's most marketable players in Brees. The NBA was already going to lose to the NFL tonight simply because the NFL is more popular. But even less people are going to watch the NBA tonight when you have one of the teams essentially throwing the game.
You can't essentially throw a game on national TV against the defending champions when the league is trying to get viewers from the NFL and not expect the hammer to come down.
And it wouldn't be hard to take away their pay from the game. It would be as easily as treating it like a suspension without pay. I thought as a fan of the Pacers you would realize the league can mandate the loss of salary, cuz our players lost a TON of money in 2004/2005.
If they don't want to play the players, fine. But if they're not injured it should be required they show up. Poppovich basically said "If we lose this game I don't really care."
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Well, this is interesting.
Is Adam Silver going to be facing "significant sanctions" from Stern also?Originally Posted by Steve Aschburner, NBA.com, April 17, 2012
"I had to take her down like Chris Brown."
-Lance Stephenson
I think the NBA would be more popular and have a better product with less games, part of the aura of the NFL is that the teams don't play as much, people always want more. Meanwhile we all groan about having to sit through the 4th Bucks-Pacers game every year.
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Popp shouldn't care! He is doing what is in the best interest of his team. And as for bandwagoners, lots of people like Miami just for LeBron or because they won the championship. Their stadium is always packed with heat fans. So, the ticket issue is not a problem.
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It just kills me that Stern is openly admitting to anyone who has enough sense to think about it that he does not care about the game, doesn't care about winning, doesn't care about players - it's all about the money, boys!
Look at the exact opposite in our game against the Lakers: Pop sits healthy players in a largely meaningless game (non-conference, November game) to keep them healthy, and Stern is going to fine them. Kobe plays with the flu in a largely meaningless game (non-conference, November game), and of course there is nothing. If Stern gave a hoot about the players, the fine would be for playing the sick player, not keeping the healthy players healthy.
$$$$$$$$$$$ >>>> the game, the players, the fans
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I can't wait until February 2014.
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Everything revolves around money. It's best to just accept that, because it's neverr going to change. Stern knows that the NBA was already going to lose against the NFL tonight. Having the Spurs throw the game ensured that even less people would watch. As Commissioner, that's going to upset you. How can you even try to compete against the NFL tonight when one of your teams clearly doesn't give a damn?
And as for the adam silver/no fine thing from last year...in the part after the first bold he said that that season was unique, talking about its condensed state. Unique, as in it's not the same as this year.
Btw, there's no slippery slope here. You're best guys have to at least be in the building and give the appearance that they're going to play, so your viewing audience doesn't turn the channel before the game even starts.
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However, they were already in Florida from their game in Orlando the night before and it was a blowout from the beginning. They could have easily only played their guys 20 minutes then put them out for 20 minutes the next night if they wanted to rest them.
They get paid ridiculous amounts of money for being very good at something that people like to watch. Saying that they need rest from 4 hours of availability and 30 minutes of basketball is ridiculous. They're professionals.
Where does it say that every team must play they best players at all times? Would it make a difference if this was the playoffs and the Spurs were up 3-0?
If they get fined, I expect them to appeal
"So, which one of you guys is going to come in second?" - Larry Bird before the 3 point contest. He won.
Man, this is some of the most inspired basketball I've ever seen in the NBA! I can understand where Stern is coming from as far as marketability and sponsorship concerns, but this group is just flat outplaying the Heat right now.
I'm taking back whatever I said about Pop not playing the starters, I'm loving this game tonight.
They're going to pull it out in the closing minutes, but the HEAT are the ones that should be receiving sanctions for even making this close. Absolutely UNACCEPTABLE! Lol
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Diaw is playing some good D tonight I wonder where are the people that said that he sucks on D?
It's worth noting that the Heat defense is solid for everything but excellent ball movement and good 3 point shooting. Which is what the entire Spurs team does well.
Well then the NFL should go to two games a week and double the amount of games in a season, and there should only be one starting pitcher. :eyeroll: Yeah they are professionals, but it isn't like they are playing a nice relaxing sport like bowling. There is a physical toll taken by these players, and it only gets more difficult as they get older (notice Pop is resting his old guys not his young ones). It isn't like high school or college were you play one game a week, so when you do play multiple games within 2 or 3 days you are more physically able to recover quickly. For the most part these guys are playing almost every other day already. That is why you hear about players "taking a night off". It isn't because they are lazy, but because they just can't play that many games in such a compact schedule.


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Jinora was born to Tenzin and Pema in 160 AG on Air Temple Island. She grew up as one of only two airbenders in the world, until she was later joined by a sister, Ikki, when she was three, and a brother, Meelo, when she was five.
Korra's training
During fall of 170 AG, Jinora and her family traveled on Oogi to the Southern Water Tribe compound to meet Korra, who was due to start her airbending training with Tenzin. Once they arrived, Jinora happily greeted her grandmother, Katara, and told her that she had been reading all about her old adventures and had been "dying" to ask her what happened to Zuko's mother. Katara began to explain, calling it "an incredible tale", but was interrupted by Ikki, which greatly annoyed Jinora. The next day, the ten-year-old and her family had to leave the South Pole to return to Air Temple Island, as Tenzin had only come to inform Korra about his duties in Republic City, which made it impossible for him and his family to stay at the compound.
After Avatar Korra ran away from her compound and traveled to Republic City, she finally convinced Tenzin to allow her stay on his island so he could teach her airbending. At this decision, Jinora and her siblings excitedly hugged Korra, celebrating her stay.[4]
When Korra began her training, Jinora demonstrated the proper way to navigate through the spinning gates, afterwards speeding them up with a blast of air. She tried to offer advice to the Avatar, but ultimately Korra failed to make it to the other side. After destroying the training relic in a fit of frustration, the Avatar snapped at Tenzin, calling him a bad teacher and storming away. Jinora and Ikki responded by hugging and comforting their father as their little brother kicked around the charred and splintered remains of the gates, mimicking Korra.
At dinner that night, Jinora was reading a book when a frustrated Tenzin demanded that his children promise him that they would not grow into hot-headed teenagers like Korra, to which Jinora emotionlessly replied that she would make "no such promises" and continued to read her book.[5]
While helping Korra out in her bending training, she and Ikki asked her about her personal feelings toward the approaching Mako, which prompted the embarrassed Avatar to launch them into the air with earthbending, though the girls used airbending to land gently, giggling afterwards.[6]
Jinora sat quietly at her family's dinner table as Councilman Tarrlok entered and offered Korra to join his task force. Along with her family, Jinora later attended the party Tarrlok threw in honor of Korra.[7]
After delivering fruits for the ring-tailed winged lemurs to eat, Jinora pressed Korra if she pursued her potential feelings for Mako, observing that they were spending "a lot of time together". While Korra hurriedly denied this, she asked what she could do, pretending for a second she was interested in him. Jinora gave Korra advice on how to approach Mako based on a historical saga she had read, namely how the heroine, while riding a dragon, burned down the entire country and jumped into a volcano. After Ikki's advice involving a love potion, the Avatar was more inclined to take Jinora's suggestion, believing that it made more sense. They were interrupted by Pema, who had overheard their conversation. Jinora and her sister were surprised to learn that their father was in love with someone else before their mother. After Pema told them what she did to win Tenzin's heart, all three girls thought Pema's advice was the best alternative.[8]
When Mako, Bolin, and Asami arrived on the island, she welcomed them and shared facts about the fire ferret species. She later showed Mako and Bolin to the boys' quarters.[9]
The Anti-bending Revolution
When the island was attacked by Equalists, Jinora, along with Ikki and Meelo, battled the Equalists and successfully took them down after Lin Beifong was briefly incapacitated by the Lieutenant, all three showing impressive bending skills. Jinora was the first to attack, flying down into the midst of the Equalists using her glider and shouting at the chi blockers to "stay away from [her] dad's ex-girlfriend". After the battle, Jinora and her siblings met their new baby brother. Jinora was curious if her parents had chosen a name yet and if not, if she could she name him. Her parents told the kids that their brother's name was Rohan. Soon enough, more Equalist airships started invading the island, so Jinora and her family tried to flee Air Temple Island to a safer location, in order to protect the last airbenders.[10]
However, Jinora and the rest of her family were captured by Amon, who intended to publicly remove their bending and destroy the last airbenders at a rally in the Pro-bending Arena. Avatar Korra and Mako swiftly came to their aid, and Korra led Jinora and the rest of her family out into the hallways of the Pro-bending Arena. Tenzin led his children to find Pema and Rohan while Korra and Mako defeated Amon.
Once Republic City was safe again, Jinora returned to Air Temple Island with her family. She witnessed her boisterous uncle, Bumi, enter the harbor with the rest of the United Forces, much to Ikki's enjoyment and Tenzin's embarrassment. Jinora traveled with her family, as well as the rest of Avatar Korra's friends and family, to the Southern Water Tribe to have Katara attempt to restore Korra's bending. When Katara was unable to heal Korra, Jinora stood by her family, who tried to tell her it would be all right. Jinora witnessed Korra use energybending to restore Lin's earthbending and watched Tenzin praise Korra for her accomplishments as the Avatar.[11]
Journey to the air temples
Six months after the revolution, Jinora competed with Ikki, Meelo, and Korra in an air scooter race, coming in third behind her sister and the Avatar.[12] She later traveled with her family to the Southern Water Tribe for the Glacier Spirits Festival. Following Korra's decision to pursue spiritual training with Unalaq, Jinora left with Tenzin and the rest of her family to visit the Southern Air Temple. Jinora was fascinated upon entering the sanctuary, which is filled with statues of the past Avatars, and became even more amazed after seeing her grandfather's statue. Coinciding with Korra's mission in the South Pole to open its spirit portal, Jinora awoke in the middle of the night because of an unknown force that led her back to the sanctuary. While there, she discovered an interesting figure of Avatar Wan, whose statue was different from the others. As Korra's mission succeeded, the statue illuminated, amazing Jinora.[13]
While playing air scooter with Meelo, their mother realized Ikki was not with them and asked about her whereabouts. After initially pretending she did not know Ikki, she admitted to teasing her sister, causing Ikki to run away.[14] The next day, after her father returned with Ikki, Jinora apologized to her sister for teasing her. After Ikki readily accepted the apology, the siblings ran off off to play a game of airball.[15] A few days later, she witnessed in awe as Meelo orchestrated a ring-tailed winged lemur air show.[16]
Guiding Korra
When their family vacation took Jinora to the Eastern Air Temple, she met and befriended several dragonfly bunny spirits that resided there. Since she was the only one who could see them, she covered up her playtime with the spirits as "playing with imaginary friends" when her father came to get her to start a tour of the temple. However, before they could embark on their trip, Korra arrived at the temple, pleasantly surprising everyone. Jinora excitedly ran up to the Avatar to greet and hug her. However, as Korra brought the family up to speed with the current events they had missed due to their vacation, Jinora just stared at her in shock.
After it became apparent that Korra needed to cross over to the Spirit World, Jinora tagged along to several locations where she witnessed Korra and Tenzin meditating in unsuccessful attempts to cross over. As they were moving on from their second location Jinora got distracted by the presence of her spirit friends. The spirits flew away into the thicket, prompting the young airbender to call after them to return. However, this drew the attention of her aunt, who inquired who she was chasing. Unwilling to reveal her secret, she brushed Kya off and ran after her father and Korra, leaving Kya to her own suspicions.
Having returned to the air temple, Jinora was shocked to hear her father's confession that he had never been to the Spirit World before. When Korra emphasized her urgency to get to the Spirit World, Jinora was pushed by Kya to reveal her secret, namely that she had been conversing with spirits and as such had required the knowledge where Korra needed to go in order to enter the Spirit World. To prove her claim, Jinora told her spirit friends that it was all right to reveal themselves, earning herself amazed praise from her family.
As they followed the spirits down to the lower areas of the temple, Jinora confided in her aunt that she believed her father was mad at her, though Kya reassured her that Tenzin was not mad at her, but was merely suffering from a bruised ego. Korra complimented Jinora's ability with spirits, but she stated it was nothing compared to having met the first Avatar. When Jinora learned that the Avatar is part spirit due to their connection with Raava, she realized why she had been drawn to Wan's statue at the Southern Air Temple during the winter solstice, though the coincidental timing of her actions with Korra's opening of the Southern spirit portal awed both girls.
The group followed the dragonfly bunny spirits to an ancient meditation circle. Jinora noted that the place held a lot of spiritual energy, though it had been corrupted. She witnessed Tenzin perform a cleansing ceremony. However, the ritual drew out a swarm of bat-like dark spirits that promptly attacked them. Jinora was protected by Kya until Korra used Unalaq's purification technique to calm the spirits down.
Jinora spent the remainder of the day waiting with the others while Tenzin attempted to cross over to the Spirit World through meditation. When it became apparent that it was not going to work, Kya pointed out that it was Jinora's destiny to guide Korra into the Spirit World. Although Tenzin deemed it too dangerous for her, Jinora managed to convince her father that she could do it. After sharing a brief hug and hearing that her father was proud of her, Jinora and Korra sat down in lotus position, opposite from one another. They meditated until Korra's eyes started to glow white and they both crossed over to the Spirit World.[3]
Awestruck by the appearance of the Spirit World, Jinora ran off to chase a butterfly spirit, commenting that it looked like it was made of jewels. When Korra called for her help as she was being attacked by meerkat spirits, Jinora turned back and urged the distressed Avatar to remain calm, as it was her energy that was upsetting the spirits. However, Jinora was unable to free Korra from the spirits' hold and as the meerkat spirits began to ran around them, they were both sucked through the ground. They were dropped into the water on another location, where they were instantly swallowed by another spirit who transported them to a rapidly moving stream. As they approached a fork in the water, Jinora was pushed in another direction as Korra and ended up on another grassy location. All alone and unable to determine her whereabouts, she called out for help. When Furry-Foot came to her aid, she excitedly greeted him and asked him if he knew where Korra had ended up. The spirit purred and offered Jinora to ride on his back, a suggestion she readily accepted. As they approached Wan Shi Tong's Library, Jinora initially mistook it for being an elaborate tree house, though soon recognized the building for what it truly was since her grandfather used to frequent it.
Inside the library, Jinora gazed around in awe, remarking that she could stay there forever, reading. However, she was greeted by a hostile Wan Shi Tong, who no longer allowed humans in his library and demanded her to leave. Jinora countered the order by recalling the rule that whoever offered some new knowledge for the library's collection, was permitted to enter. When the owl spirit brushed aside the possibility that Jinora knew something he did not, the young airbender explained the inner workings of the radio, correcting the information Wan Shi Tong had received from one of his Knowledge Seekers. Although he acknowledged Jinora's information, he still refused her access and demanded her once more to leave. However, when Jinora announced herself to be the granddaughter of Avatar Aang and the companion of Avatar Korra, she was permitted access to the library, though also received the warning to not break anything.
She immediately searched the library's vast collection for information on the spirit portals' locations, though to no avail. Growing restless, she asked a nearby Knowledge Seeker for help, who instantly brought her a book about the Tree of Time. Armed with the knowledge of the portals' locations as well as the dire consequences that would befall the mortal world if Vaatu would ever be freed, Jinora wanted to continue her journey, but found herself thwarted by Wan Shi Tong and Unalaq. She was apprehended by Furry-Foot, who had turned dark, and taken to Vaatu at the Tree of Time.
Detained by Unalaq's special waterbending technique, a move that threatened to destroy her soul if it was to be completed, Jinora was used to coerce Korra into opening the Northern spirit portal. Although distressed, the young airbender told Korra not to open the portal, but found herself silenced by Unalaq's dark spiritual technique. When Korra relented, Jinora was released and put into the care of Furry-Foot, who took off with her as soon as the portal was opened and a battle ensued between Korra and Unalaq, preventing her from returning to her body in the physical world.[17]
Trapped in the Spirit World
For almost a week, Kya used her healing abilities to keep the energy in Jinora's body flowing, though her life force was slowly leaving the young airbender, placing her in mortal danger.[18]
While her body was taken care of by her aunt and grandmother,[19] Jinora's spirit was taken to the Fog of Lost Souls, where she wandered aimlessly, until the fog spirit infected her mind and trapped her within her own darkest memory. Jinora stayed there until she was found by her father and let out of the valley where the fog spirit resided. As they left the fog, she regained consciousness, expressing her relief over seeing her father again. As they were heading toward the spirit portal to exit the Spirit World, Jinora sensed the demise of Raava and the repercussions of her disappearance for the world. Knowing Korra needed her help, she gave her father a butterfly light spirit, stating it would guide them out of the Spirit World, before departing herself.[1]
Jinora reappeared during the battle between Korra's spiritual projection and the fusion of Unalaq and Vaatu known as the Dark Avatar. Surrounded by light, Jinora's spirit brought Raava back to the world by casting a bright light over the Dark Avatar, interrupting his attempted corruption of Korra's projection. After the battle was over, Jinora's spirit was brought back to the Spirit World by Korra's spiritual form, where she told her father that she would see him soon. Her spirit faded and returned to her physical body, which was resting at the White Lotus compound. She lovingly hugged her grandmother, stating that she had missed her, and told Asami, Tonraq, and Senna that they did not need to worry as Korra had saved the world.
Jinora later stood by her friends and family as Korra declared the Water Tribe Civil War to be over and the Southern Water Tribe independent. She happily and proudly listened how Korra announced that there would no longer be a separation between the mortal and the Spirit World, marking the start of a new age where humans and spirits coexisted.[20]
Jinora is a quietly reserved, intelligent, studious girl, much different from her younger, more rambunctious siblings. Out of Tenzin and Pema's four children, she is the calmest and most mature. However, she does like to tease her siblings from time to time, causing her sister to perceive her as "mean and bossy".[14][15] Although still young, Jinora displays a great amount of courage, as she was willing to exchange her soul in favor of the world's well-being when she was being used as leverage to coerce Korra into opening the Northern spirit portal,[17] as well as prolong the separation of her soul and body in order to aid the world by finding Raava.[20]
She enjoys reading historical fiction, as well as her father's journals chronicling his adventures with her grandfather, Avatar Aang, and the adventures of Aang and his friends. She also has an interest in playing Pai Sho,[7] and is starting to find boys interesting, which troubles her father greatly.[2]
Jinora is the most spiritual in her family, believing that she had always had a connection with spirits. With the help of a group of spirits that she met, Jinora was able to enter the Spirit World with Korra.[3]
Even though Jinora is still an airbender-in-training, she has displayed an excellent variety of airbending skills. This was evident when Korra earthbent Jinora and Ikki into the air and she used airbending to glide down, and later when she defeated the Lieutenant when Air Temple Island came under attack. Also, she is able to use a glider and has mastered the air scooter, a move invented by her late paternal grandfather, Aang. Her skills in combat and natural agility allow her to go toe-to-toe with even the most agile of Equalist chi blockers. Her airbending abilities also supplement her fighting skills by giving her the element of surprise so that she may gain the first strike, as well as extreme mobility. She is also able to bend enough air to spin the airbending gates.
Other skills
Much like her grandfather Aang, Jinora possesses a strong natural affinity with spirits and spiritual-related matters. She is able to see spirits that hide their presence from others, as well as guide people into the Spirit World.[3]
According to Katara, Jinora's life energy was notably strong, as she was able to survive an extensive period of time with her body and soul separated, as her spirit had been trapped in the Spirit World.[19]
Being well-read, Jinora has a great general knowledge, ranging from historic facts to the workings of recent technology and the habits of fauna.
The Legend of Korra
Book One: Air (气)
Book Two: Spirits (神靈)
- Her attire is similar to the common clothing of young airbenders, which Aang wore in Books One and Two of Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Jinorasa was the name of a lesser-known Buddhist writer and poet. Coincidentally, Jinora is also a well-read girl, having encyclopedic knowledge on various subjects, such as being able to identify a fire ferret on the spot and recite its natural habitat.
- Jinora is the first female airbender to be born after the Air Nomad Genocide and is also the first airbender known to have a nonbender parent.
- Unlike her parents and siblings, Jinora has brown eyes.
- Like her father, Jinora is more serious and mellow, whereas Ikki and Meelo are more hyper and playful.
- Jinora and her sister, Ikki, are the first and only pair of sisters to be seen or mentioned in The Legend of Korra and the second in both series to be seen, Lo and Li being the first.
- Jinora has a close relationship with her aunt, Kya.[21]
- Jinora is the youngest spiritual mentor to the Avatar, possessing a natural affinity with spirits that makes up for her lack of formal training.
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