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Agenda
June 5
6:30pm
6:30pm - 8:30pm
June 6
June 7
Welcome Party
Sculpture Garden
7:00am
9:00am
12:15pm
2:15pm
5:30pm
6:30pm
Sunrise Flow Yoga
Sculpture Garden
General Sessions
Wave Ballroom
Networking Lunch
Park Pizza
General Sessions Continue
Wave Ballroom
Happy Hour Poolside!
Haven Pool
Dinner on Own
Sculpture Garden
General Sessions
Wave Ballroom
Networking Lunch
Park Pizza
General Sessions Continue
Wave Ballroom
Happy Hour Poolside!
Haven Pool
Dinner on Own
7:00am
Sunrise Flow Yoga
Sculpture Garden
9:00am - 12:15pm
General Sessions
Wave Ballroom
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
12:15pm
Networking Lunch
Park Pizza
2:15pm - 5:15pm
General Sessions Continue
Wave Ballroom
2:15pm
3:15pm
4:15pm
5:30pm - 6:30pm
Happy Hour Poolside!
Haven Pool
6:30pm
Dinner on Own
7:00am
9:00am
10:30am
11:45am
1:45pm
3:15pm
7:00pm
7:00am
9:00am
10:30am
11:45am
Lunch on Own*
*Reservations required for Haven Kitchen located in the Wave Hotel.
Nearby restaurants: Park Pizza, Chroma, Bosphorous, PF Chang's To Go, Veg'n Out, Island Fin Poke, and Foxtail Coffee
1:45pm
3:15pm
7:00pm
Dinner at Chroma
Workshop 3.0: Cash in on Corporate Clients: Leverage Your Knowledge to Diversify & Grow Your Event Business
Susan Southerland
Ignite Meeting Room
Susan Southerland
Ignite Meeting Room
Workshop 3.0: Truth Finder: Stop Guessing What's Working In Your Marketing
Sara Dunn
Fusion Meeting Room
Sara Dunn
Fusion Meeting Room
Workshop 3.0: Finding Clarity within Your Finances
Danielle Hayden
Wave Ballroom A
Danielle Hayden
Wave Ballroom A
Workshop 3.0: Personal Branding: The difference between CEO So So and CEO Dynamo
CeCe Todd
Wave Ballroom B
CeCe Todd
Wave Ballroom B
Workshop 2.0: Building a Brand With Swagger
Kristin Hubbard
Ignite Meeting Room
Kristin Hubbard
Ignite Meeting Room
Workshop 2.0: 1 Hour SEO: Go From 0 to Optimized in 60 Minutes
Sara Dunn
Fusion Meeting Room
Sara Dunn
Fusion Meeting Room
Workshop 3.0: What is Your Leadership Style? Leverage Temperaments to Revolutionize Your Company Culture
Ashley Ebert
Wave Ballroom A
Ashley Ebert
Wave Ballroom A
Workshop 2.0: The BABC: (BAD A$$ BO$$ CLUB): All About Female Entrepreneurship & The CEO Mindset
CeCe Todd
Wave Ballroom B
CeCe Todd
Wave Ballroom B
Workshop 3.0: Creating Impactful Education in Your Industry
Laylee Emadi
Fusion Meeting Room
Laylee Emadi
Fusion Meeting Room
Workshop 2.0: Affording The Team That Unlocks Your Dream Life
Ashley Ebert
Wave Ballroom A
Ashley Ebert
Wave Ballroom A
Workshop 2.0: The Lead Game has Changed: Getting to More Conversations That Get More Bookings
Tom Chelednik
Wave Ballroom B
Tom Chelednik
Wave Ballroom B
Workshop 3.0: The Magic Formula to Triple Your Sales
Maria Bayer
Ignite Meeting Room
Maria Bayer
Ignite Meeting Room
Workshop 3.0: Financial and Entrepreneurial success and the conversations that need to come with it
Women in Wealth: Bernadette Girvin and Michelle Taylor
Fusion Meeting Room
Women in Wealth: Bernadette Girvin and Michelle Taylor
Fusion Meeting Room
Dinner at Chroma
Workshop 2.0: Stop Selling Yourself and Start Selling Your Team
Maria Bayer
Ignite Meeting Room
Maria Bayer
Ignite Meeting Room
Lunch on Own*
*Reservations required for Haven Kitchen located in the Wave Hotel.
Nearby restaurants: Park Pizza, Chroma, Bosphorous, PF Chang's To Go, Veg'n Out, Island Fin Poke, and Foxtail Coffee
*Reservations required for Haven Kitchen located in the Wave Hotel.
Nearby restaurants: Park Pizza, Chroma, Bosphorous, PF Chang's To Go, Veg'n Out, Island Fin Poke, and Foxtail Coffee
Workshop 2.0: Auditing the Systems in Your Wedding Business
Julie Painter Fried
Wave Ballroom B
Julie Painter Fried
Wave Ballroom B
Workshop 2.0: Money Mindset Mastery: Overcoming mindset blocks and empowering your financial future
Danielle Hayden
Wave Ballroom A
Danielle Hayden
Wave Ballroom A
2 Mile Run with Ali
Meet in the Lobby
Meet in the Lobby
June 8
9:00am
9:00am
Closing Breakfast Networker
Haven Lounge
9:00am
10:00am
11:00am
12:00pm
2:15pm
3:15pm
4:15pm
Panel Discussion
Timeline Genius Demo
Eddie Babbage
Wealth Management
Women in Wealth: Bernadette Girvin and Michelle Taylor
Make it Easy for Editors to Say Yes: Get Published More with Modern Media Strategies
Meghan Ely
Uplevel Your Website to Match Your Portfolio
Amanda Shuman
Opening Keynote
Brandee Gaar
Choose Your Adventure: How Intentional Decision Making Can Transform Your Wedding Business
Megan Gillikin
Our Speakers
Megan Gilikin
Ashley Ebert
Kristin hubbard
Laylee Emadi
Danielle hayden
Julie Painter fried
Teambuilding
mindset
branding
Systems and Automation
speaking/education
Finance + Profit
Cece todd
amanda shuman
brand strategy
personal branding
brandee gaar
MICHELLE TAYLOR/BERNADETTE GIRVIN
wealth management
ceo strategy
susan southerland
diversifying your income
meghan ely
PR Strategy
SEO
Sales Strategy
maria Bayer
sara dunn
TOM chelednik
lead generation
About the host:
Brandee Gaar.
BUSINESS MENTOR | KEYNOTE SPEAKER | MULTI-BUSINESS OWNER | PODCAST HOST | MOM | WIFE | YOUR CHEERLEADER
Hey there! I'm Brandee, and I help creative business owners sustainably scale their businesses so they can create a thriving career and work-life balance. (Yes, it’s possible!)
During this summit, I'm not going to give you broad direction for any business stage. My vision is to do what I always do for my clients:
To help drill down the nitty-gritty to provide solutions where you feel the most stagnant and stuck, all while building a community of like-minded entrepreneurs!
The truth is, you have the skills, the chops, and the smarts to scale your business. And with the right guidance and community, you'll know exactly how to apply all that to skyrocket your growth.
I've been in the events industry for 20 years and created three 6-figure businesses, all while raising the #Gaargoyles! (What we affectionately call our 3 daughters.) So you could say I’ve learned a thing or two about building a real business — not just an expensive hobby or cute side hustle.
I can't wait to see you!
Workshop 2.0:
Affording The Team That Unlocks Your Dream Life
Workshop 2.0:
Affording The Team That Unlocks Your Dream Life
Enough with the wishing already! Let's get practical about how you can turn your dream life into your REAL life! We will spend some intentional time designing your business around your dream life and dig into the secrets that can carve out a clear path forward. All attendees will walk away with a personalized financial forecasting tool to support their vision, resources to get started, and the confidence to make it all happen!
Workshop 3.0:
What is Your Leadership Style?
Leverage Temperaments to Revolutionize Your
Company Culture
Workshop 3.0:
What is Your Leadership Style?
Leverage Temperaments to Revolutionize Your Company Culture
We will be doing a deep dive into each business owner's Leadership Style.
Then we will use this information to understand how to build more productive and happy teams. In this workshop we will discuss:
Then we will use this information to understand how to build more productive and happy teams. In this workshop we will discuss:
- Your personal strengths and weaknesses as a leader
- What motivates and drives your team members
- How to have seamless communication that drives the results you want
Workshop 3.0:
Truth Finder: Stop Guessing What's Working In Your Marketing
Workshop 3.0:
Truth Finder: Stop Guessing What's Working In Your Marketing
As a business owner making investments in marketing, how confident are you in what's really working to drive traffic to your website? In this workshop, we'll dig into your website's analytics. We'll untangle the mess of data to learn the few reports that will help you make better marketing decisions.
In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to:
In this interactive workshop, you'll learn how to:
- Figure out where the majority of your website visitors are coming from
- Diagnose the leaks in your website that are making visitors leave
- Use free SEO tools to check where you rank on Google
WORKSHOP 2.0:
THE LEAD GAME HAS CHANGED:
GETTING TO MORE CONVERSATIONS THAT GET MORE BOOKINGS
Workshop 2.0:
The Lead Game has Changed:
Getting to More Conversations That Get More Bookings
WeddingPros, who successfully convert leads to bookings, are constantly evaluating their follow-up process and content. With the Generation Z crowd, it’s more important than ever to build trust and rapport. So, we will unlock and share secrets that will increase the chances of actual conversations that turn into real bookings for you.
Goals for this session:
Goals for this session:
- Strategize to improve your lead process and reduce Ghosting
- Improve your follow-up content with examples that work
- Automate your follow-up process to book more leads
WORKSHOP 3.0:
PERSONAL BRANDING:
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CEO SO SO AND CEO DYNAMO
Workshop 3.0:
PERSONAL BRANDING:
The difference between CEO So So and CEO Dynamo
You have the logo, the colors, the website, branded shirts and maybe even it on your car! But nothing about that helps people know who YOU are, and why they need to hire you. Join me on a journey to discover your personal brand, even if you are an introvert😘, and how to use it to get so much more out of your business!
- What is personal branding and why do I need it?
- Activity: Step by step worksheet to determine your personal brand.
- How to use your personal brand to get more out of your business?
- People buy from people, I'll show you how to-become the go-to expert in your market and l how to use this for so much more in your business!
WORKSHOP 3.0:
Creating Impactful Education in Your Industry
Workshop 3.0:
Creating Impactful Education in Your Industry
Whether you see a need in your industry to offer an educational resource, you feel ready to take stages as a speaker, or you feel drawn to helping others succeed within your community through sharing your skill set and knowledge; industries thrive off of experts passing down what they know. While creating educational experiences and offerings (from mentoring to speaking to course creation) can be heavy work, the reward of helping your peers, your community, and your industry grow and thrive is incredible! The goal of this workshop is to share a few steps to get you started on the path of transitioning into the role of industry educator, share tips on deciding if becoming an educator is right for you, and to start to equip those who have the heart to share their gifts and knowledge well.
WORKSHOP 3.0:
Financial and Entrepreneurial success and the conversations that need to come with it
Workshop 3.0:
Financial and Entrepreneurial success
and the conversations that need to come with it
Conversations we are having with our business owner clients are often around managing fixed expenses, avoiding shiny objects, and liquid capital being center stage. How do you meet your goals while taking on as little risk as possible, because let's face it, being a business owner is risky enough, and how do you turn a business that’s worth something on paper into something that shows up in your bank account. With the proper tax strategy and business plan, you can turn a successful business into a sellable asset that ensures your hard work truly pays off. Understanding how important building out your ecosystem is and how these relationships should work together, is a game changer! Whether preparing yourself for a sale of your business or equipping yourself to be able to take advantage of opportunities that markets like these create, the conversations that you have now will either make or break you in regard to both!
Workshop 2.0:
1 Hour SEO: Go From 0 to
Optimized in 60 Minutes
Workshop 2.0:
1 Hour SEO: Go From 0 to Optimized in 60 Minutes
Every single day, engaged couples are searching for your services on search engines like Google. Will they find you... or are you the hidden secret down on page 9? In this workshop, we'll take the important first steps toward moving up on Google and getting found by couples who can't wait to hire you.
In this interactive workshop, you will:
In this interactive workshop, you will:
- Learn what SEO actually is, and how it works (the non-boring version)
- Use free SEO tools to find out what people are actually searching for
- Fix the SEO of your home page to get a quick rankings boost
Workshop 2.0:
Stop Selling Yourself and Start Selling Your Team
Workshop 2.0:
Stop Selling Yourself and Start Selling Your Team
You’ve built a strong brand and now have a team so you can scale…but you’re still getting inquiries for you. In this workshop, you’ll learn savvy sales strategies to shift from selling YOU to selling a team, and how to incorporate them into your sales process, website and social copy. You’ll walk away with a clear outline of specific changes you can make to start selling a team by this weekend!
Workshop 2.0:
Auditing the Systems in Your Wedding Business
Workshop 2.0:
Auditing the Systems in Your Wedding Business
From your project management tool to wedding workflows, there are a myriad of places to review the different systems that make up your wedding business. We’ll review everything from daily tasks to an annual refresh and put a few of you in the hot seat to walk through any systems issues in your business.
Workshop 3.0:
The Magic Formula to
Triple Your Sales
Workshop 3.0:
The Magic Formula to Triple Your Sales
Doubling, tripling or even 10x-ing your sales doesn’t have to take years or require you to spend your life on social media. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to avoid the biggest mistake business owners make that keeps them stuck at their revenue level, and we’ll run the numbers to show you what you should focus on instead. You’ll walk away with an eye-opening look at your business and how you can focus on activities that will really move the needle.
Make it Easy for Editors to Say Yes: Get Published More with Modern Media Strategies
Make it Easy for Editors to Say Yes:
Get Published More with Modern Media Strategies
Wedding publicity is often the missing piece of the promotional puzzle with event professionals. And inasmuch as things change, one publicity question remains the same- how do you get the editor to say yes? In this session, award-winning publicist Meghan Ely will offer a fresh take on PR for the wedding pros, expanding on how to leverage your expertise and portfolio for that coveted acceptance.
Takeaways include:
The impactful role of relationships and how your event background gives you the advantage.
Navigating the top challenges of acceptance, including managing vendor teams and exclusivity.
Three things you can do in the next week to level up your press.
Takeaways include:
The impactful role of relationships and how your event background gives you the advantage.
Navigating the top challenges of acceptance, including managing vendor teams and exclusivity.
Three things you can do in the next week to level up your press.
You’ve built the business, now what?
You’ve built the business, now what?
This will be an open conversation about practical steps each business owner can take to start planning for the future. Although most entrepreneurs never truly consider retiring, the conversations that dictate what retirement needs to look like should be happening 10-15 years before the time actually comes… but where do I start? Determining what your options are and the timing around the right strategies is critical. How much capital do I really need on hand for my business? What type of retirement accounts or strategies are available to business owners, and which one is the right one for me? Should I hire someone so that I can focus my talents elsewhere and continue to grow my business ? When do I consider filing taxes as an S-corp instead of a sole proprietor and what does that mean for my retirement. How do I ensure that my present self and future self are never in direct competition within my plan? All of these conversations are critical and with the right road map you can meet the needs of your business today without sacrificing yourself down the road.
Uplevel Your Website to
Match Your Portfolio
Uplevel Your Website to Match Your Portfolio
- The number one reason your website isn't generating leads
- Reframing the way you think about your website in the sales process
- Walk away with several immediately applicable strategies to take action on to see a boost in leads
- Plus case studies from CLD clients so you can see an up-leveled website in action
Choose Your Own Adventure:
How Intentional Decision Making Can Transform
Your Wedding Business
Choose Your Own Adventure:
How Intentional Decision Making Can Transform Your Wedding Business
Ready to take control of your wedding business and stop feeling like the goals and success you want are always just out of reach? In this talk, we'll lean into the power of intentional decision making and how it can pave the way towards success faster and with more clarity.
We'll cover:
The questions to ask yourself before taking action on anything
How to identify your 'Heck Yes's' and 'Heck No's' when it comes to opportunities, so you can prioritize what matters most.
How to get the most out of this summit and leave feeling empowered and ready to take intentional action on what you learn.
We'll cover:
The questions to ask yourself before taking action on anything
How to identify your 'Heck Yes's' and 'Heck No's' when it comes to opportunities, so you can prioritize what matters most.
How to get the most out of this summit and leave feeling empowered and ready to take intentional action on what you learn.
Workshop 3.0:
Cashing in on Corporate Clients: Leverage Your Knowledge to Diversify and Grow Your Event Business
Workshop 3.0:
Cashing in on Corporate Clients: Leverage Your Knowledge to Diversify and Grow Your Event Business
Takeaway 1: Find your niche. The field of corporate events is wide. How do you decide which type to pursue?
Takeaway 2: Lay the foundation. Decide what and how you should charge.
Takeaway 3: Spread the word. How to effectively use your network to market your new services.
Takeaway 4: Navigate potential pitfalls. Four costly mistakes to avoid when expanding into corporate events.
Takeaway 2: Lay the foundation. Decide what and how you should charge.
Takeaway 3: Spread the word. How to effectively use your network to market your new services.
Takeaway 4: Navigate potential pitfalls. Four costly mistakes to avoid when expanding into corporate events.
Takeaway 1: Find your niche. The field of corporate events is wide. How do you decide which type to pursue?
Takeaway 2: Lay the foundation. Decide what and how you should charge.
Takeaway 3: Spread the word. How to effectively use your network to market your new services.
Takeaway 4: Navigate potential pitfalls. Four costly mistakes to avoid when expanding into corporate events.
Takeaway 2: Lay the foundation. Decide what and how you should charge.
Takeaway 3: Spread the word. How to effectively use your network to market your new services.
Takeaway 4: Navigate potential pitfalls. Four costly mistakes to avoid when expanding into corporate events.
WORKSHOP 2.0:
THE BABC: (BAD A$$ BO$$ CLUB)
ALL ABOUT FEMALE ENTREPRENEURSHIP & THE CEO MINDSET
Workshop 2.0:
The BABC: (Bad a$$ bo$$ club)
All about female entrepreneurship & the CEO mindset
Doing pretty good, feeling like you are starting to get the hang of this, but at the same time you’re feeling stuck and the thought of failure paralyzes you? You know there is more out there, but you just don’t know how to reach it? I’ve got you! Let’s fill in the gaps between where you are and where you want to be.
◦ Whether it’s 100 K revenue, or 100 K salary, let’s discuss the difference and how to achieve both!
◦ Understanding the female entrepreneurial mindset and trajectory.
◦ Workshopping the importance of identifying your ideal client, branding and marketing to reach them, building a team and processes to deliver the promise, cash flow management, and so much more.
◦ Whether it’s 100 K revenue, or 100 K salary, let’s discuss the difference and how to achieve both!
◦ Understanding the female entrepreneurial mindset and trajectory.
◦ Workshopping the importance of identifying your ideal client, branding and marketing to reach them, building a team and processes to deliver the promise, cash flow management, and so much more.