As of June 2020, women account for 60% of marketing roles in North American, compared to just 47% of overall positions. Even in the last few years we’ve seen significant increases in women in leadership roles in marketing. For every advancement women have experienced—from achievements in...

February recognizes Black History Month. If you’re looking for things to do or history to learn, we encourage you to support your local communities. Events Both Travel Portland and OregonLive have set up lists of Black History Month events around Portland. These include the PDX Jazz Festival...

Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland, working with former Mayor Sam Adams, has launched a series of Action Tables to accelerate Portland’s recovery. The Tables are headed by business leaders, city staff, not-for-profit managers, and involved citizens, and each Table includes many workgroups. For deta...

At the end of June, SMPS Oregon gave an overview on the Business Success and Job Creation Action Table and discussed some of the updates that the City of Portland is seeing on economic recovery and employee retention. One of the members of the action table worked with the Building Owners and Manager...

“Not enough time.” “Too expensive.” “What’s the point?” “It’s just the way we do things.” Ask seller-doer project managers (PMs) and marketers about proactive business development (BD) and “getting ahead of things” with clients...