Event Planning from the Inside Out: Embrace Your Experiences and Enhance Your Planning

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 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 (©2014-2024) is a 5-session workshop series for anyone planning or promoting events, created and presented by Lisa Gareau for Candy Academy of Event Planning and Promotion. •

Auteur

Lisa Gareau is a life-long event planner and has been a Connection Strategy Coach for over a decade. When founding Candy Event Consulting in 2008, she began her life's work to help in-house and do-it-yourself event planners embrace their brilliance, activate their experience, and cultivate meaningful connections that would last through the events they plan. Lisa knows that events can become energized "connecting points" where communities can gather and grow, and she helps make this happen by offering high-level strategy sessions and deep-dive coaching guidance for everyday event planners and their teams. Her heart for community and passion for connection shines through as a speaker, facilitator, coach, and the creator of learning and connection opportunities for planners including Candy Academy of Event Planning + Promotion, Moments Magazine - Event Planning Ideas + Inspiration, The Connection Architect Program, The Connector Next Door Podcast for Planners, and now Candy's online mastermind - The REDI Room! Lisa loves living and working from her home base in Calgary, Alberta just a stone's throw from the Canadian Rockies ? a favourite family playground.