MEET GAILShe started Palmer Event Solutions, because she wanted to focus her team on helping the non-profit community. With nearly 20 years of experience, she’s honed her processes to plan events smarter and faster (aka far less stress!).She’s done it all: designing, planning, implementing, and ‘fixing’ events for non-profit, corporate, and private clients from New York to Alaska. (Yes, Alaska! She worked for the state’s largest event planning company.) She’s worked in hotel and hospitality management, travel and tour management, destination planning, and even has a background in theater design (stage, lighting, sound, and set).Her technical theater expertise and broad background in event design, planning, and management make her a perfect fit for the event industry, an industry that requires someone to be both wildly creative and hyper-focused on details. Possessing a keen sense for improving the planning process, she produces events that are more successful, creative, and impactful.Gail loves to explore, and the million-dollar ideas come easily to her, but she knows the final results must work in the real world, where budgets and the laws of gravity come into play.As a Certified Special Events Professional and President of the International Live Events Association (ILEA) Cleveland Chapter, Gail’s the real deal. In fact, she’s one of only a few in Ohio to hold their CSEP certification and the only one locally who specializes in non-profit event development. You might say she’s equally left and right brained, the best of both worlds.WHAT CLIENTS LOVE ABOUT HER- Her approachable and transparent style makes her easy to work with.- She brings out the big paper and colored markers during brainstorming sessions.- She’s super connected to resources. Her nickname “Pocket Gail” came from a client who said, “having Gail on speed dial is like having an extensive list of resources all in your pocket.”FUN FACTS- Gail has visited all 50 states – and more than a few countries.- While living in in Anchorage, Alaska she helped plan the 50th Anniversary of Statehood.- She’s an ace pinochle player!