Welcome to Brilliant Meetings xi Together we have a real passion to make a difference to everyone who attends, arranges or leads meetings, to enable personal sat- isfaction to be achieved as well as corporate gain. Through our recently created company, Space 2 Inspire, we facilitate the introduction of a Brilliant Meetings culture in to the organis- ations we work with. www.meetingexpert.co.uk has been created to document and share the best practices, information and templates used by the `Brilliant Meetings' community and will be maintained and developed with all the passion and commitment applied to this book. Acknowledgements A `thank-you' paragraph in the opening sequence to a book hardly justifies or rewards the care, enthusiasm and unwavering