Gigi Sheppard Email & Phone Number

Davenport, Fl, Us

Davenport, Florida, United States

• Conceptualize strategic initiatives to propel the achievement of corporate goals, streamlined operations, and maximized staff performance; directed human resources, performance management, budget administration, and staff mentoring and leadership.• Directs human resources, performance management, budget administration, staff mentoring and leadership.• Realizing consistent improvements in organizational profitability, efficiency, and performance through effective problem solving, organization, and interpersonal abilities.• Maintains spreadsheets and CRM through data entry, data processing and using software applications to create documents.• Meets with employees monthly to ensure their continued success.• Provides coaching, counseling, mentorship, and performance management.PROJECT MANAGEMENT• Collaborates with C-level executive clients to ensure their goals and objectives are executed with their staff, contractors, and vendors.• Deliver strategic innovation plan targets; identify incremental opportunities to accelerate growth.• Conducts project meeting with team members to explain roles/responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments, and status reporting and assists with updating and revising plan, as necessary.• Ensure that projects are successfully launched; provide traditional project management functions; handle requirements definition, scope, �meline, and budget monitoring.• Identifies and works to remove barriers to successful completion of the overall project, with particular emphasis on resolving issues with cross-module implications.• Provided contract negotiations and created vendor relationships to save clients $250k in renovations on the building.

Boca Raton, Fl

Noah’s Buddy Club is for special needs children. Membership includes a monthly subscription box (Noah’s Buddy Box) filled with sensory toys and exclusive offers.

United States

● Client Relationship Management: Provide ongoing support to clients, ensuring their service objectives are met by collaborating with internal and external teams. Facilitate the resolution of service issues and proactively conduct account audits to identify potential risks and emerging trends.● Conference and Platform Strategy: Collaborate with clients to select the most suitable virtual platform or physical space for their conferences, ensuring a seamless and impactful event experience.● Hybrid and Onsite Event Strategy: Partner with tradeshow and convention organizers to develop innovative onsite, virtual, and hybrid event strategies that align with client goals and enhance attendee engagement.● Project Management: Develop comprehensive project management templates and timelines, guiding the planning and execution phases to ensure every detail is meticulously managed.● Communication Design: Create and design templates for email marketing and communications, ensuring consistent and effective messaging across all event-related communications.● Liaison and Coordination: Act as the key liaison between clients, the audio-visual production team, and virtual platform staff, ensuring smooth coordination and flawless execution of all technical aspects.● Sponsorship and Exhibitor Management: Oversee the management of sponsors and exhibitors, providing support to maximize their participation and impact at events.● Team Leadership: Lead and manage a team of event managers, fostering a collaborative environment focused on excellence in event delivery.● Event Design: Specialize in crafting event designs that are visually stunning and logistically sound, enhancing the overall attendee experience.● Specialized Consulting: Provide expert consulting on events tailored for differently-abled and neurodivergent individuals, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility at every stage of event planning and execution.

Remote

Provides executive assistant services using screen-sharing software, phone, and email correspondence to communicate and provide deliverables to C-level executive clients• Provides human resource management and coordination, including onboarding and offboarding• Maintains spreadsheets and CRM through data entry* Provides research,* Complex calendar management

Remote

Developed and maintained outstanding relationships with clients and exceeded their expectations for customer service whilesecuring their travel arrangements.• Carefully listened and assessed clients' needs to create a match for their vacation plans.• Utilized excellent verbal and written communication skills and maintained a professional, positive demeanor.• Continuously provided exceptional organizational skills.

Greater Philadelphia Area

Marketing, Public Relations, Coordinating Staffing Needs

Miami/Fort Lauderdale Area

As most planners know, venue sourcing is a critical component of any meeting or event. I provide venue sourcing service for meeting accommodation space serving groups with 10 or more guest rooms per night. My goal is to assist businesses in finding the perfect hotel, in the perfect meeting space that matches both their business objectives and their budget. I will negotiate all aspects of a hotel contract including conference rooms, sleeping rooms, food and beverage, and ancillary spending for the event. With the experience and global buying power of American Express Global Business Travel, I am able to offer best-in-class capabilities and a wide-range of scalable, customizable solutions to help clients consistently achieve business results, maximize saving opportunities and leverage greater visibility with each specific meeting or event.

Greater Philadelphia Area

•Establishes sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories, projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products•Maintains sales volume by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors•Recruiting, selecting, and training employees•Creates marketing materials and manages social media campaign•Worked in Sheraton, Ritz Carlton, Marriot, and Loews Hotels.

Media, Pennsylvania, United States

• Presented purchase offers to sellers for consideration.• Conferred with escrow companies, lenders, home inspectors, and pest control operators to ensure that terms andconditions of purchase agreements are met before closing dates.• Prepared documents such as representation contracts, purchase agreements, closing statements, deeds and leases.• Coordinated property closings, overseeing the signing of documents and disbursement of funds.

Brookhaven, Pa

 Coordinated private and corporate affairs, weddings, and team-building activities; Provided temporary hospitality staffing services for corporate and private events; Oversaw all aspects of corporate and social events for a diverse group of clients; Cultivated new business; Solicited sponsorship and coordinated fundraisers for non-profits.

Swank Audio Visuals

•Establishes sales objectives by forecasting and developing annual sales quotas for regions and territories, projecting expected sales volume and profit for existing and new products•Maintains sales volume by keeping current with supply and demand, changing trends, economic indicators, and competitors•Recruiting, selecting, and training employees•Creates marketing materials and manages social media campaign•Worked in Sheraton, Ritz Carlton, Marriot, and Loews Hotels.

Greater Philadelphia Area

•Planned and executed meetings, corporate events, alumni affairs, and non-credit classes•Represented school at industry meetings, trade shows, and associations•Created the Junior Chef cooking camp for children•Provided on-site management of all logistics, including audio/visual, transportation, registration, food & beverage, décor, spousal/guest programs, and children’s events

New York, United States

 Member of event team hired to manage 2002 meetings n Fajardo, Puerto Rico; and 2003meetings in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Assisted with the development and distribution of PR materials, including brochures, pamphlets, newsletters, and videos. Editing and proofreading media content, videos, press releases, emails, and other communications about members that will be sent to the public. Assisting in the promotion and planning of the largest indoor flower show, the Philadelphia Flower Show.