Meet to discuss the latest business trends, issues, and challenges you face, and share best practices with your professional peers.
The Professional Roundtable season begins each September, and new participants are welcome to join throughout the season at a pro-rated amount.
MRA Offers the Following Professional Roundtables
To enroll in a roundtable, please click on the roundtable listing. You will be redirected to a registration page.
Accounts Payable
This group of accounts payable managers, supervisors, and practitioners meets quarterly to share best practices and stay informed in areas such as managing payment cycles, compliance, automation and technology, process improvements, and strengthening vendor relationships.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027
Accounts Receivable
The accounts receivable function plays a key role in supporting, protecting, and optimizing the organization’s cash flow and financial accuracy. On a quarterly basis, accounts receivable managers, supervisors, and professionals gather to discuss topics such as the billing and collections cycle, addressing overpayments, credit policy, and leveraging technology, along with trending topics and strategies in the world of collections.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027
Customer Service
As a customer service manager, you and your staff are on the front line of customer interactions every day. And those interactions not only define how customers view your organization but how they conduct business with you. Meet with a group of your peers to discuss issues and share best practices on topics such as managing difficult direct reports, key performance indicators, and how to motivate and engage staff.
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Emerging Leader
Designed for emerging and recently appointed leaders. This roundtable provides facilitated discussions on many of the challenges new and emerging leaders face, including budgeting, communications, building relationships and influencing others, delegation, and stress management. Build your knowledge base and peer network as you grow and transition into a successful leader.
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Labor Relations
Whether you’re a seasoned professional or have limited experience with labor and employee relations, you’ll find it valuable to participate in this roundtable. Learn what other companies are doing and hear from the experts on key labor relations issues, including productivity, quality, teamwork, handling grievances, arbitrations, and contract negotiations.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027
Leadership Excellence
As an experienced leader managing others for five or more years, gather with your peers from various industries to discuss topics such as effective coaching, crisis management, increasing employee morale, time management skills, developing resilience and adaptability, and designing and implementing long-term strategy. Learn, share best practices, and refine your skills with leaders just like you.
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Learning and Development
Learning and development managers and professionals meet to share experiences and learn how others are developing training programs that are generating measurable results.
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Manufacturing Professionals
Meet with general managers, owners, and others responsible for the daily operations of a manufacturing plant. Share insights and discuss topics that you deal with on a daily basis including employee safety, OSHA, and how to recruit and hire the best people for your organization.
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Marketing Professionals
The pace of change in today’s marketing world continues to increase, making it challenging for marketing leaders and professionals to keep up with the latest innovations and strategies. Here’s your opportunity to share insights and learn from peers in an environment that fosters discussion, ideas, and solutions for today’s evolving marketing strategies. Potential topics may include branding, AI automations and content, using social media for prospecting, and the changing landscape of SEO and SEM.
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Payroll
This group of payroll managers, supervisors and practitioners meet quarterly to stay informed on current payroll issues and trends and to share best practices in a confidential environment.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027
Quality Professionals
Join your process improvement professional peers at this roundtable. Discuss relevant topics such as supplier impact on business, risk management, KPIs, metrics/COQ, automating processes, and future vision of quality departments.
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Rising Leader
Tailored for those who have transitioned into a leadership role within the last five years and are looking to enhance their skills in areas such as managing relationships, giving feedback, conflict resolution, performance management, motivating others, and managing highly sensitive situations. Share surprises, struggles, and successes with your fellow rising leaders.
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Safety
Learn from your safety professional peers on topics such as plant and cyber security, OSHA updates, ergonomics, compliance, and audits as they relate to environmental, health, and safety issues.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027
Sales Managers
Sales managers meet to discuss issues, challenges, and best practices. Potential topics include forecasting and metrics, prospecting, CRMs, customer relations, team building, compensation structures, and performance management.
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Technology Professionals
IT professionals and managers meet with their peers to share best practices and stay informed on current IT issues and trends. Discussions focus on topics such as user experience, Help Desk ticketing and metrics, asset/inventory management, vendor selection/SLAs, disaster recovery, AI, and cyber security.
2025-2026 | 2026-2027