Event Support Services

I've been fortunate to have great mentors in the events industry. They taught me how to take concepts to completion, develop contingency plans, engage all the stakeholders in collaboration and deliver a quality product.

Coordination, strategic planning and building collaborative relationships are my strengths. Let me show you why. I can help you create a smooth flowing event that patrons, sponsors, staff and volunteers will enjoy and remember.

Let me help you align your mission, vision, passion and purpose

A visioneering event consultant creates support services that align your vision, mission and purpose with the passion of staff and volunteers have for creating successful events.

A few past endeavors of my own...

Gaia-Fest

was an event borne of conscience and collaboration. The local press called it a 'Love Fest,' but then again - we were in California. We had access to a canyon just off the beach in Pacific Palisades (just outside LA), California. We got tremendous reception from the local public, and even got Whole Foods, Inc. as a sponsor; even setting up a food booth at the event itself. We had over 70 vendors from mind/body/spirit, social activism, environmental, eco-technology, organic gardening, and reforestation arenas.

The Olde Town Tempe Spring and Fall Arts Festivals

have been going on for several decades. During the 90s I managed the largest area of vendor and food merchants, over 350 booths and 20+ food vendors. Each coordinator (5 in total) had their own crew for layout, load-in, event management, load-out and clean up. On most weekends there were over 200,000 patrons visiting downtown Tempe. Over the years relationships developed and trouble shooting became easier as the same problems were encountered, not that they were problems, per se, but the situations were repetative and relatively easy to resolve.

Arizona Bike Week - Feb. 8-16, 1997

The event drew thousands of bikers from across the country to SpeedWorld the first weekend and then on to downtown Tolleson, Arizona for the second weekend. The five of us (pic below) handled all the logistics for set up, operations and then teardown in both locations. We had nearly 100 vendors at SpeedWorld and over 200 in Tolleson as Bike Week took over the town. Then there was load-in...whew! Good thing there was plenty of coffee. Johnston's barbeque semi-trailer was a major hit, too.

The Prophets Conference

Showcased nearly 30 speakers, 70 vendors and various musicians on 17 acres at Corona Ranch (October 10-12, 1998) in Laveen, Arizona, just outside Phoenix. I was hired by the Axiom Group, the promoters, as the Event Manager for the 3-day event. In charge of all the logistics, project management skills came in real handy. The cooperation of the volunteers was key, yet it was the collaboration of the vendors that made the move in and out extremely smooth and near problem-free.

One World

A cable access show I produced and hosted (Jan, 1990- Aug, 1992). We did about 110 shows or so with guests including professional actors, radio/TV personalities, city officials, community activists, youth organizations, psychics, chiropractors, psychologists, artists, musicians, authors, business consultants, homeless, educators, administrators and more.

One World seems like a dream for some. The format was designed to promote the results of overcoming fears in professional and private lives and sharing those processes with our audience to help them find ways to move through their own fears. Much can still be learned by studying those who found their way through their challenges in life.

Who?

was a commercial show, aired on KDMA Channel 27, focusing on community  activism...  solutions (1992). What started as one show turned into five, which also included youth empowerment, holistic medicine, constitutional opinions and a community calendar. My first show was on the 500 year indigenous celebration, called the Peace and Dignity Journey, which had runners starting in Fairbanks and Buenos Aires that met in Mexico City.

I hosted Who? and coordinated the logistics for the rest, which were hosted by Judy Bailey, Terry Friedmann, M.D., and Joe Abodeely, J.D., in order. The final show was a community calendar of events.

Mission: Earth Dance

found my partner, Robin, and I in a new arena with a purposeful mission: to garner support and address the real issues facing our youth today. We are both educators and it appears our educational system is simply not serving the students with special needs, above and below the norm. Challenged youth eventually react to their environments in unhealthy ways and growing needs go unaddressed. Professionals from a variety of areas spoke and led discussions toward organizational change, community development, multiculturalism, gifted youth (not always in the best of relationships), and alternate dispute resolution. They included Marilyn Oyler, Jerome Landau, Calvin Terrell, Tom Ollerman and more.

Every good story provides guidance for living—it brings forth in us a fine character trait and an inner enthusiasm to act.