{"id":1188,"date":"2017-01-25T22:55:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:55:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/?p=1188"},"modified":"2017-01-25T22:55:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T22:55:28","slug":"jacquelines-tise-2017-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/25\/jacquelines-tise-2017-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"Jacqueline’s TISE 2017 Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that we\u2019ve had a few days to regroup from The International Surface Event (TISE) in Las Vegas, I\u2019m counting down my favorite moments from this excellent annual event:<\/p>\n

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First off, I have to mention how much I enjoyed presenting this year at the \u201cManaging A Family Business Forum.\u201d My fellow panelists and I certainly come from different backgrounds, but we all agreed that working with your family starts with respecting one another. The forum drew quite the crowd even though we had an early start at 8:00 a.m.! Thank you to everyone who attended and participated.<\/p>\n

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Managing A Family Business Forum<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Next, I have to give a shout out to my Women In Stone. We had a great panel discussion that highlighted many of the challenges women in the work place face on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

My favorite response came from Informa\u2019s Amie Gilmore on the topic of \u201cPressure To Do It All.\u201d She said, “If you don’t get everything done that day, don’t stress; the world won’t explode.”<\/p>\n

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The panel was followed by speed mentoring (think speed dating, but instead of looking for a soul mate, you\u2019re speaking with an amazing mentor). I enjoyed all of my conversations with my various mentors and made a few new friends in the stone industry.<\/p>\n

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Women In Stone mentoring<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I know what you\u2019re thinking: This is Las Vegas! What about the parties? Yes, I\u2019m getting there: one of my favorites was the TISE Marble Institute of America (MIA) Happy Hour. First off, I won a fifty-dollar gift card to Applebee\u2019s, (I never win anything, so this was huge) but more importantly, I was able to mingle with our stone industry friends that I get to see only once or twice a year.<\/p>\n

Another notable f\u00eate was the MSI party at the Skyfall bar at the Delano, which my generous Women In Stone mentor, Allyson Humphries invited me as her guest. The view was out of this world and the company even better.<\/p>\n

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View from Skyfall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Lastly, I want to mention the stone restoration classes that were part of the education program: the Maintenance and Restoration Forum and the Care and Maintenance Interactive Experience. I am in the stone restoration industry after all and I love joining these classes to refresh my memory and learn about various honing and polishing techniques.<\/p>\n

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Rawi & Jacqueline Tabbah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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All in all, I had a great time at TISE 2017 and I\u2019m already looking forward to next year.<\/p>\n

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  Now that we\u2019ve had a few days to regroup from The International Surface Event (TISE) in Las Vegas, I\u2019m counting down my favorite moments from this excellent annual event:   First off, I have to mention how much I enjoyed presenting this year at the \u201cManaging A Family Business Forum.\u201d My fellow panelists and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[13,203,204,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1188"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1195,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1188\/revisions\/1195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/intlstoneworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}