What is the single most important thing attendees discover at your session?
A 30,000 foot level view of the global wedding industry and how trends and cosumer behavior are impacting every single aspect of this business. Insights that hopefully will inform future business strategy development.

What do you believe is the greatest innovation to affect the events industry in the past year?
No question…the iPad!!!!

Where do you find inspiration?
From the amazing luxury wedding and event professionals that I am so fortunate to call colleagues and dear friends!

What excites you most about the year ahead in the events industry or your personal business?
To continue to experience the impact of social media on our industry and watch our world become smaller and more connected than ever before. The past two years have been truly extraordinary!

What is the best piece of business advice you’ve ever been given?
I heard Oprah say it but not sure of the original source: “Luck is where preparation meets opportunity” also “You don’t get what you deserve, you get what you negotiate.” I remind myself of that quote every time I develop a new client proposal.

BIO
Strategic consultant to the global wedding industry and producer of luxury wedding business events called engage!. Rebecca Grinnals is a sought-after industry consultant and business trend expert and speaks around the world on the 'business of weddings'. She co-founded 'Fairytale Weddings & Honeymoons' for the Walt Disney Company and has orchestrated wedding-related promotions and partnerships including the Sandals & Beaches Resorts’ ground-breaking partnerships with Celebrity Wedding Designer Preston Bailey and Cake 'Diva' Sylvia Weinstock, and promotions with Ritz-Carlton, Martha Stewart Weddings/MSLO, Brides magazine, The Knot and many more.

Most recently, she and business partner Kathryn Arce have created an innovative series of luxury wedding business symposiums called engage!, bringing together the wedding industry's key influencers and tastemakers from throughout the US, Caribbean and Canada to exchange ideas, network and be inspired to take their successful businesses to the next level.

COMPANY
Strategic consultant to the global wedding industry and producer of luxury wedding business events called engage!

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