Always one to find connections between her life and work, life-long event planner and Connection Strategy Coach Lisa Gareau has embraced her life experience as a source of inspiration for her work. For over 15 years she has been coaching everyday event planners to embrace their experience so they can enhance their planning.
In her first story-filled book, Lisa shares familiar situations and fun stories from her own life that will help readers understand that purposeful planning requires us to start "Event Planning from the Inside Out". She believes that meaningful event planning starts when we're ready to connect to who we truly are, to embrace the experiences that make us unique, and to let each life lesson help us plan with more purpose and passion.
This special compilation of stories now sits as the heart-centered companion to Lisa's long-running workshop series, "Candy's Five Keys to Event Planning". Through each section in the book Lisa unpacks the essential keys to event planning and wraps each key in a significant story from her life!
Candy's Five Keys to Event Planning
Key One: Purpose + Plan
Key Two: Design + Decor
Key Three: Space + Time
Key Four: Sound + Light
Key Five: Food + Drink
Lisa Gareau has been planning and promoting events all her life, has been serving in-house and do-it-yourself event planners through her business Candy Event Consulting since 2008, and supporting planners and their teams as a Connection Strategy Coach for over a decade. Lisa believes any event can become a "connection point" where clients, customers, core teams, or community members can gather and grow.
If you are ready to embrace your experience and enhance your planning, let Lisa guide you to "Event Planning from the Inside Out"!
{ Candy's Five Keys to Event Planning (©2015-2024) is a 5-day workshop series for anyone planning or promoting events, created and presented by Lisa Gareau for Candy Academy of Event Planning and Promotion. You can learn more about Candy Academy here www.CandyConsulting.ca/Connection. A version of "The Five Keys" chapters in this book first appeared in Executive Support Magazine, a global training publication and a must-read for any administrative professional. www.ExecutiveSupportMagazine.com }
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Lisa Gareau is the Founder of Candy Event Consulting and knows events can become energized connecting points where communities can gather and grow. She comes to her work as a "Connection Strategy Coach" after over 40 years of event planning joys and hard knocks and believes it is possible for everyday event planners to embrace their brilliance, activate their experience, and cultivate meaningful connections that last. Lisa facilitates learning for these everyday planners through deep-dive strategy sessions, real-time planner and team coaching, interactive workshops through Candy Academy of Event Planning + Promotion and is taking her message to the next level through her "connection-first" course and community called The Connection Architect Program. Lisa continues to share her learning widely as the creator and publisher of Moments Magazine – Event Planning Ideas + Inspiration, the happy host of The Connector Next Door Podcast for Planners, and a soulful speaker, inspiring businesses, and community groups here in Canada and around the world to build better connections from the ground up. Lisa and her family live in Calgary, right next door to the Canadian Rockies, a favourite family playground.
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