We're excited to share that Soundings Founder & CEO, Tracy Judge, and Talent Experience Coordinator, Nikki Gonzales, sat down with Michael Lyons ahead of the Ladies Who Lead Lunch: Provocateurs' Roundtable with Soundings!

New survey data from event professionals reveals a workforce that loves the work but is quietly exhausted, and shows why peer connection, not more content, may be the strongest fix.

If you’ve ever tried to figure out what you should be making in the events industry, you’ve probably done what most of us do: search your title, find a salary range, and immediately wonder whether you’re underpaid, overpaid, or looking at numbers that have absolutely nothing to do with your job.

McKinsey's new global survey and our own 12-month benchmark study measure different industries. Put side by side, they tell one story: adoption is not the hard part anymore. What you do with it is. And our industry is behind on more than one front.

We're excited to share that Soundings Founder & CEO, Tracy Judge, was recently featured on Smart Meetings' Smart Start Radio podcast, discussing how event professionals can move beyond AI experimentation and start using it strategically!

Skift recently dug into a question we deal with on a regular basis: why does salary data for event professionals look so inconsistent? Barbara Scofidio at Skift raised the topic in a story on confusing salary benchmarks in the events industry (Meeting Planner Salaries: Why They Never Agree), and it's worth unpacking here. 

We're excited to share that Soundings Chief of Staff, Nikki Gonzales, has been named to Meetings Today's inaugural Trendsetters of Tomorrow list, recognizing 10 emerging meetings and events professionals shaping the future of the industry!

The organizations pulling ahead right now aren't the ones with the biggest teams. They're the ones who've figured out how to combine two strategies that, on their own, are useful, but together, are the winning formula: agile staffing and skills-based hiring.

We're excited to share that Soundings Founder & CEO, Tracy Judge, was recently featured in a Skift Meetings article digging into why meeting planner salary data is so inconsistent across the industry!

Most organizations wait to staff up until they're understaffed, post a role, wait weeks to fill it, and hope the person they hire is as good on the job as they were in the interview. That's not a talent strategy. That's damage control.

Most people think classification comes down to what you call someone. Contractor. 1099. Freelancer. It doesn't work that way – It's about the relationship, not the label. 

We're excited to share that Soundings Founder & CEO, Tracy Judge, was recently featured in the July-August 2026 issue of The Meeting Professional!

We're excited to share that Soundings Founder and CEO, Tracy Judge, was recently featured as a guest on a podcast episode exploring how AI is changing the events industry!

Preston Krzyzak, Growth Manager at Soundings, was recently featured in a Meetings Today article exploring how live events can help combat the global loneliness epidemic.

Choosing an event staffing partner isn't just about finding qualified talent. It's about protecting your organization from unnecessary risk while ensuring your events run smoothly. 

An Offstage with Soundings® recap of our session at Cvent CONNECT by Tracy Judge, CEO & Founder of Soundings.

Founder and CEO of Soundings, Tracy Judge, weighs in on the event industry's contractor classification challenges in a new Skift article examining how agencies are navigating growing scrutiny over temp worker misclassification.

For decades, the meetings and events industry has relied on one of its greatest strengths: a highly skilled, flexible workforce capable of scaling up or down to meet the demands of every event.

For meeting professionals, agencies, and corporate event teams, compliance is no longer simply an operational consideration – it's becoming a strategic business imperative.

For decades, workforce development has followed a familiar pattern. Universities prepared students. Employers hired graduates. Then organizations taught people what they really needed to know to succeed in their roles. That model was already beginning to change. AI is accelerating the shift.