Heather N.

I've spent 25+ years planning travel and running the logistics behind national meetings, tradeshows, conferences, and marketing programs. Booking accommodations, coordinating transportation, building schedules that actually work once people are on the ground, managing budgets: the dozens of moving pieces that have to land on the same day, on the same page. Done right, nobody in the room notices how much coordination it took. As host province for a national annual meeting, I managed the full travel and logistics stack myself. That meant venue and site selection, booking accommodations, arranging transportation, and building the schedule attendees actually followed, all coordinated directly with vendors to keep everything on budget and on time. At Meat and Poultry Ontario, I owned that same kind of travel and event logistics for the organization's full slate of events and tradeshows for nine years, just at a provincial scale instead of national. I also led a redesign of vendor and event-management processes that cut costs in key areas by 50%. I'm equally comfortable owning travel planning end-to-end or slotting into a larger team as the person who keeps accommodations, transportation, timelines, and budgets under control. I've managed programs from $5MM annual marketing budgets down to lean nonprofit events. I know how to scope a trip or event realistically, negotiate with vendors, and troubleshoot when travel plans or logistics shift at the last minute. If you need someone to take travel planning or event logistics off your plate, whether that's booking and itineraries, vendor coordination, budgeting, or on-the-ground execution, I'd love to talk about your project.