Turnover is no longer the exception in the events world - it’s the rule. This post offers a strategic blueprint for preparing your team, processes, and event strategy for inevitable staffing changes. Learn how to design for continuity, protect your strategic vision, empower new hires quickly, and keep vendor and partner relationships strong - even when the team looks different than it did a month ago. Real-world insights, including a personal leadership story, show how to survive - and thrive - through turnover.

Too many partnerships feel like obligations instead of opportunities. This post explores how to evaluate, manage, and elevate event partnerships so they align with your strategic goals. Learn to identify red flags, foster win-win collaboration, and say no without burning bridges—so you can lead with confidence and get results that actually matter.

Post-event debriefs are one of the most overlooked tools in event strategy—and that’s a problem. Too many teams skip them, rush them, or keep them siloed. This blog challenges that norm and reframes the debrief as a powerful strategic lever for improvement, alignment, and evolution. Drawing on fresh insights from the Freeman 2024 Trends Report and leadership principles from Simon Sinek, we explore how to design debriefs that drive clarity, connect to purpose, and inform future decisions. If your team is still treating the debrief like a formality, it’s time to rethink the routine—and unlock its full potential.

Too often, events are seen as logistics. But when used well, events are strategic platforms—for revenue, visibility, retention, and influence. Here’s how to shift the conversation.

Events don’t just demand time and skill—they demand emotional resilience. From nonstop pressure to the weight of client expectations, this post explores the unseen emotional cost of event work and why it’s time we take it seriously.