MIA’s Speaker Bureau Hits 100 (March 25)
The designation allows the individual members to represent the stone industry in making presentations that award educational credits to architects and designers.
“The concept of MIA members providing education to architects and designers using MIA’s PowerPoints and the MIA’s CEU provider status is starting to pay real dividends for participating members,” said Greg Mowat of Forensic Tile Consultants, and chair of the MIA’s CEU committee. “This program connects stone companies, and specifically the 100 newly trained member instructors, with current and potential customers (architects and designers) who are required to attend continuing-education classes to maintain their professional credentials.
“When each class is over, MIA member stone companies have the opportunity to spend extended quality time with those potential customers, while in the role of the trusted resource on natural stone.”
The program also includes classes for the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). ASLA joins the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID), Interior Designers of Canada (IDC), Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC), International Interior Design Association (IIDA), and American Institute of Architects (AIA) in recognizing the MIA CEU Program.
Several classes for kitchen-and-bath design professionals through the National Kitchen and Bath Association (NKBA) will be launched in the upcoming weeks. An application is also going to the Construction Specifiers Institute (CSI) to recognize the MIA CEU program.
In addition, a new CEU class on sustainability is in development for release to MIA CEU speakers this summer.
“For a modest enrollment price, trained MIA members can become known in their marketplace as the source for CEU credits,” says Jim Hieb, MIA vice president. “The fact that the program has been expanded beyond architects is appealing to members who desire to connect with the broader design community
“The pending CEU program on sustainability is strategic as natural stone positions itself in the green marketplace.”
For more information, go to http://www.marble-institute.com/ceu.