Make the Case to Attend the 2026 NIRSA + IDEA® World Conference & Expo
Investing in your professional development benefits both you and your organization. The 2026 NIRSA + IDEA® World Conference & Expo offers practical learning, new ideas, and role-specific experiences you can bring home to strengthen your programs, teams, and communities.
Choose the category that best fits your work to access a tailored “Convince Your Boss” toolkit—with talking points, email templates, and worksheets designed to help secure approval and communicate the return on investment.
Campus Recreation
This toolkit is designed to help you make a strong case to your supervisor by showing how the conference directly supports student success and the evolving work of campus recreation. It highlights how attending will strengthen your programs, develop your student staff, improve operations, and equip you with actionable strategies that you can apply when you return.
Fitness
The NIRSA + IDEA® World partnership offers expanded certifications, hands-on workshops, and evidence-based sessions. Use this toolkit to demonstrate how attending boosts your skills, elevates your programs, and brings back techniques that improve client engagement and wellbeing.
Community: Military, YMCA, and Other Recreational Organizations
Show how the conference supports community-focused recreation through stronger programming, improved operations, and staff development. This toolkit helps you make the case for attending by outlining benefits you can apply immediately across your organization.
