Jennifer O'Grady Email & Phone Number

I am an insightful & collaborative business leader with 25+ years’ experience guiding organizations to find solutions that increase efficiency and grow revenue. I have deep expertise in event operations and hospitality with a focus on business strategy, experience design, and business transformation. Nothing excites me more than rolling up my sleeves to collaborate on how to make something work or how to make something better- I love the energy that comes out of presenting to clients, leading a team, learning, defining opportunities, ideating solutions and testing them to see how they can work.Theodore Roosevelt once said, “It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer or deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is not effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds…..”. This quote is my anthem. I am not afraid to “get in the arena” and believe you have to be willing to put yourself out there, you have to be willing to fail, but most importantly, you have to be willing to try- that is the true measure of a person and what I strive to do in everything professionally and personally.

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  Southern Illinois University, Carbondale