Learn how the incentive industry has trended and grown over the past several years and gain an understanding of how U.S. businesses view and use incentive programs. This session presents key insights from the newly released 2022 Incentive Federation Marketplace Estimate Study. Two industry experts⁠—one a well-known incentive & recognition industry and Incentive Federation, Inc. (IFI) leader, and the other the lead research consultant for the study⁠—explain how you can leverage this important data to grow your business.

Note: You must be signed in to your IMA or RPI account. The full research result deliverables are available on the IFI website.

• Nancy Alderman, CPIM, TSYS Loyalty, A Global Payments Company

• Julie Barbier-Leblan, Merit Incentives

• David Boodey, CPIM, RepLink/The DataDirect Group

• Mike Donnelly, CPIM, Hinda Incentives

• Tom Edgette, Hoffman & Edgette Award Marketing Services

• Peter Friend, Global Hotel Card By Expedia

• Tyler Gentry, Blackhawk Network

• David Gould, CPIM, 360insights

• Andrew Johnson, Diggecard

• David Klein, Spirit Airlines

• Marc H. Matthews, CPIM, Pulse Experiential Travel

• Cindy Mielke, CPIM, Tango Card

• Oran Nevin, Workhuman

• Lore Rincon, Continental Premium Corporation

• Armineh Sarkissian, Dine Brands Global (Applebee's and IHOP)

• Tasha Sharp, Sharp Incentives

• Lincoln Smith, IP, HMI Performance Incentives

• Hollis Thornton, CPIM, Blackhawk Network

• Sarah Weidman, The Genevieve Group, LLC

This year's IMA Summit was a huge success! Business professionals from all sectors of the industry gathered in Snowbird, Utah for networking, education, and recognition. This year's Summit recap includes:

• Education session audio recordings and presentations

• Awards Ceremony recording and recipients

• Member Meeting audio recordings

• Event photos and more!

The Summit mobile app will be live through September. Feel free to keep networking, view photos from attendees, and watch the session recordings. Individual profiles will remain active in the Whova app beyond the event life, you can view your saved contacts, notes and more through your profile at any time. If you have any questions or have trouble accessing the recordings, please contact Jenny Howard.

Save the date! The IMA Summit is headed to historic and beautiful Boston, Massachusetts from July 17-19, 2023! This conference is an exciting way to make long-lasting relationships while expanding your business network with 300+ industry leaders. It's the largest gathering of incentive & recognition professionals and learning offered by IMA. We hope to see you there!

Each year IMA supports a local nonprofit at the IMA Summit and provides opportunities for members to fundraise throughout the year. This year, IMA partnered with The INN Between. The INN Between provides homeless adults a stable home to experience the end of life with dignity, recuperate from illness, and receive life-saving medical treatment.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us surpass our goal! We have set a new goal to raise $20,000 in cash, gift cards, merchandise, and supplies by December 31, 2022. Please help us reach our new goal and support this important organization.

• Kim Hiscox, 360insights

• Carol Elms, Aleon

• Katie Doggendorf, Blackhawk Network

• Kathy Selders, Charity On Top Foundation

• Adam Bonville, IP, FIS Global

• Victoria Yordanova, HKS Global Group DMCC

• Jon Garbow, InComm

• Elizabeth Thornton, InComm

• Mike Bloomenthal, Lapine Inc.

• Rachel Cox, Nordstrom

• Olivia Musci, Nordstrom

• Elisabeth Wills, Nordstrom

• Kevin Brown, Onbe

• Amanda Burt, Onbe

• Agnes Fasano, Royal Caribbean International

• Beglije Frakes, Say Thank U, LLC

• Jeff Mickeal, TDS Gift Cards

• Tamarin Hetherington, The Incentive Company

• Mary Reynolds, Torn Ranch

• Tasha Robinson, U.S. Bank

• Johane Desjardins, Vibe SMG, Inc.

IMA’s Corporate Outreach program communicates the benefits of the IMA to external organizations with the goal of elevating our visibility so corporate buyers will connect with IMA member companies. Over the past year, we ran three paid advertising campaigns on LinkedIn targeting HR, Sales and Loyalty professionals. The ads produced more than 790,000 impressions and drove over 2,500 click-throughs to the IMA website. Our final ad campaign for 2022 will run later this fall.

Listen to episode 6 of IESP's podcast, Motivation Insiders: Engaging Your Participants: 7 Tips on How To Persuade Them That Always Work. Successful engagement in reward and recognition programs relies on getting people involved. What if you were better at persuading people to get involved? This episode is packed with tips and tools on seven principles research has shown to make persuasion more successful.

September 7 – IGCC Webinar: 2022 Gift Card Benchmarking Survey Results

September 15 – RPI Webinar: What Defines An Employee-Centric Manager

October 3 – IGCC Member Meeting @ RGCA Forum

October 10-13 – ASI Show ConneX

October 11-13 – IMEX America

October 24-27 – TEAMS Conference + Expo

November 9-12 – Global Incentive Summit