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Special Edition: Georgia Chapter of Meeting Professionals International – GaMPI

September 25, 2013 by angishields

Meeting Pros Radio

Special Edition: Georgia Chapter of Meeting Professionals International - GaMPI

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Today’s show is a GaMPI feature show with guest host Larry Greene.

Larry Greene/Greene Worldwide Transportation

Greene Worldwide Transportation has been in business for 25 years. We are a 24/7 transportation company with someone in our office 24 hours a day to help you with your every need. Whether you need leisure, corporate or group transportation, we have a large, late model fleet of sedans,5 passenger suvs, vans, 6,10,14 passenger stretch limousines, 31 passenger minibuses and 56 passenger motor coaches to fit all of your needs.

Tracy Stuckrath/Thrive! Meetings & Events

Tracy Stuckrath, CSEP, CMM, CHC is a certified event planner and meetings manager whose personal mission is to “make the world healthier one event at a time.” She is also one of 15 million Americans with food allergies. Combining her more than 20 years of event planning experience and food allergies, Tracy founded Thrive! Meetings & Events in 2010 to educate the hospitality industry on how to successfully accommodate dietary needs at events.

Prior to opening Thrive!, Tracy spent her career in corporate America creating and managing events for two Olympic Games, consumer and trade magazines, an auto auction company and two trade associations. To stay abreast of industry trends, she is an active member of the International Special Events Society, Meeting Professionals International, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, International Association of Culinary Professionals, Gluten Intolerance Group and the Food Allergy Research & Education. In her spare time, Tracy works part-time at Cook’s Warehouse working and interacting with local and national chefs and serves as the Chair of the GaMPI Fall Classic.

Dr. Mark Newton/Gwinnett Technical College

Dr. Mark Newton is the President of Newton’s LAW and is the Director of the Hotel, Restaurant and Tourism Management Program at Gwinnett Technical College. During the past 26 years at Gwinnett Tech he has taught courses and seminars such as Career Education, Event Planning, Energizing Professional Development as well as many other hospitality-related courses.

Mark earned his Bachelor’s from Cornell University and his master’s and doctorate degrees from University of Georgia.

Mark started his own company, Newton’s LAW in order to meet the demand for his speaking and consulting services. The company name is based on the philosophy that Learning leads to Achieving, resulting in Winning; thus the acronym LAW.

Mark is a member of the National Speakers Association – Georgia Chapter and won the Speaker of the Year award in 2002.

Vanessa Parker/What She Does and The Pink Boss

Vanessa Parker balances family and entrepreneurship with flare and a style all her own. Her mission and purpose is to empower women to use their passion and skills to generate income that will allow them the flexibility to do what they love every day. Parker has taught several entrepreneurship workshops and is currently teaching her Jr. CEO curriculum in the metro Atlanta area. She credits her success to community involvement and her drive to help women become economically self sufficient through entrepreneurship.

Meeting Pros: Kelly Treadway with EventCurious, Lindsay Pitt with TOAST Events, and Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings and Events

March 6, 2013 by angishields

Meeting Pros Radio

Meeting Pros: Kelly Treadway with EventCurious, Lindsay Pitt with TOAST Events, and Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings and Events

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On this episode of Meeting Pros:

Kelly Treadway with EventCurious

With 15 years in the special events industry Kelly Treadway has seen her career curiously come full circle. Her experiences in sales and marketing led her into the areas of events entertainment, venue management, catering sales and equipment rentals. In early 2013, after a year of ghost writing, concept building and strengthening connections, Kelly took the leap and launched EventCurious – a micro agency specializing in online marketing and public relations for special events and hospitality companies.

EventCurious balances a corporate image with grass-roots style efforts as they service clients by being their online listeners. Kelly is currently VP Elect for the International Special Event Society (ISES) Greater Atlanta chapter. She has a natural passion for connecting event profs and the dots that build a stronger industry. You can connect with her online via Facebook, LinkedIn and Pinterest @Kelly Treadway and on Twitter @EventCurious.

Lindsay Pitt with TOAST Events

Lindsay is the owner and lead planner of TOAST, a wedding and event company based in Atlanta. Lindsay has been a prominent figure in the Atlanta event industry for over twelve years. She holds the esteemed Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP) designation, the hallmark of achievement in the special events industry, which she obtained at just 27. She also spent three terms on the Board of Directors on the International Special Events Society and is Regional Director for Wedding Industry Professionals Association. Lindsay holds a Bachelor of Science from Florida State University.

Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings and Events

Tracy Stuckrath, CSEP, CMM, CHC, founder and chief connecting officer of Thrive! Meetings & Events, is an event planner who is one of just 295 people in the world to hold a designation as a Certified Special Events Professional (CSEP). She’s also one of 15 million people in the U.S. with food allergies. Combining her more than 20 years of event planning experience, her food allergies, and her education from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (2009),Tracy helps clients successfully and safely feed guests with special dietary needs through menu design, kitchen assessments, hands-on training and workshops. When planning events, she believes delicious, healthy food and environmentally friendly meeting practices should be a part of every event and work in unison to deliver the biggest return on the client’s investment. With her niche market, Tracy has been able to create a name for herself and her company, and was named a “Meeting Pros to Watch in 2012″ by Convention South Magazine and speaks regularly at events nationwide on how to accommodate guests with special dietary needs.

Meeting Pros: Kelly Jordan Nelson with L.E.D. (Luminocity Entertainment Division), Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings & Events

February 22, 2013 by angishields

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Meeting Pros: Kelly Jordan Nelson with L.E.D. (Luminocity Entertainment Division), Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings & Events

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On this Episode of Meeting Pros:

Kelly Jordan Nelson with L.E.D. (Luminocity Entertainment Division)

KELLY NELSON: Founder and Chief Creation Officer L.E.D. Kelly has long been intrigued in working with mediums that create emotional, behavioral, physical, and entertaining links that traverse our lives in work and play.

Kelly’s career began at one of the world’s largest marketing communications design and production agencies, Jack Morton Worldwide. That background served her well as she went on from there to build extensive professional credentials in event design, award-winning creative direction, writing,and production spanning all media.

Working with all types of industries, associations, non-profits and community organizations (e.g. Coca-Cola, Arby’s Inc., TechBridge, Cartoon Network, CNN, United Way,Girl Scouts of America) she developed her own singular, artistic voice.

By the early 1990s, in response to the changing climate in the industry and fueled by the motto, “Do youwant to be safe and good, or do you want to take a chance and be great?” she creatively commanded her own course. Kelly used her non-traditional influences from the arts and keen sensitivity to the power ofpop culture to engage audiences worldwide. It’s no wonder she was continually labeled a “Maverick”…long before the term was considered mainstream.

For 19 years the first company she founded, The Maverick Group (TMG), an experience design and marketing agency, provided innovative experience and design solutions unmatched in the industry.

Today, Kelly continues to be a dynamic, passionate champion of alternative thinking and artistic envisioning, always pushing the boundaries of the normal to achieve more engaging results. Kelly’s unique perspective and ability to use creative thinking as a pathway towards strategically motivating behavior has made her a sought-after artistic creator and designer for a wide range mediums and platforms.

Her work has brought her a bevy of awards garnered for creative direction, as well as countless accolades for her unique concepts and use of talent. Now at the top of her game after more than 22 years of creative leadership, Kelly is now busy with her new entertainment design and production agency L.E.D. as well as Luminocity (her illuminated performance art light parade spectacle) – which provides her with a constructive outlet for her ground breaking artistic visioning.

About L.E.D:

L.E.D. (Luminocity Entertainment Division) is a dynamic, full-service, strategy based event and entertainment production company that designs and produces entertainment-driven projects for corporations, associations, not-for-profits, public programs, and private individuals. L.E.D. also offers subcontracting services to a wide variety of communications,advertising & public relations firms as well as meeting & event producers worldwide.

At L.E.D. all of our talent solutions are based on a strategic platform of purposeful design.We craft our solutions to reflect the positioning and messaging of our client’s unique brand attributes. We leverage engaging entertainment to speak a message to audiences,connect them emotionally with your brand and ultimately move them to a desired behavioral outcome.

Also check out: Luminocity Atlanta

Tracy Stuckrath with Thrive! Meetings & Events

in the U.S. with food allergies. Combining her more than 20 years of event planning experience, her food allergies, and her education from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition (2009),Tracy helps clients successfully and safely feed guests with special dietary needs through menu design, kitchen assessments, hands-on training and workshops. When planning events, she believes delicious, healthy food and environmentally friendly meeting practices should be a part of every event and work in unison to deliver the biggest return on the client’s investment. With her niche market, Tracy has been able to create a name for herself and her company, and was named a “Meeting Pros to Watch in 2012″ by Convention South Magazine and speaks regularly at events nationwide on how to accommodate guests with special dietary needs.