Laurie Fitzgerald Graham Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA

• For more than 20 years, the ICEX team has been putting technology and business professionals in touch with the invaluable first-person ideas, advice and experience of other practitioners. Leaders of large, global.
• Strategize with senior management to meet organizational goals and objectives; design and implement meeting/event specifications to meet client requirements, program needs and organizational objectives.
• Manage program teams to ensure that objectives, deadlines and quality assurance guidelines are met.
• Build and maintain relationships with VIP clients to assure meeting participation and membership renewal.
• Establish and manage vendor & supplier relationships; negotiate and manage all contracts.
• Budgetary responsibility for all meetings & events and overall company operations.

• Strategize with senior management to meet organizational goals and objectives; design and implement meeting/event specifications to meet client requirements, program needs and organizational objectives.
• Manage program teams to ensure that objectives, deadlines and quality assurance guidelines are met.
• Build and maintain relationships with VIP clients to assure meeting participation and membership renewal.
• Establish and manage vendor & supplier relationships; negotiate and manage all contracts.
• Budgetary responsibility for all meetings & events.
• Manage meeting planning staff providing performance assessment and training & development.

Responsible for planning all meeting / event logistics for 4-6 client programs; 15-18 meetings per year.

• Met program goals & objectives by managing all aspects of executive education program execution.
• Developed and managed relationships with academic departments across university and with outside vendors & suppliers; negotiated and managed all contracts following strict budget guidelines.
• Established relationships with program participants/students assuring continued company participation.
• Worked closely with senior level faculty members to develop & maintain agenda ensuring that program and participant requirements and objectives were met.
• Supervised program assistants and managed workflow ensuring all deadlines were met and high quality standards were upheld.Key Accomplishments:
• Selected from among 15 employees to manage the Program for Global Leadership – HBS’ first-ever executive education program conducted internationally. Spent 4.5 weeks in Singapore as manager of the program.

• Managed support for three senior faculty members; triaged & managed graduate student requests.
• Developed and managed relationships with academic departments across the university.
• Provided management of online course platform ensuring accuracy, relevancy and usability of platform and course materials.Key Accomplishments:
• Appointed to manage the highly successful “Conference on the Future of Interactive Marketing” which attracted 50% more attendees than originally anticipated.
• Appointed Technical Lead by Marketing Department Chairman in August 1996 which involved responsibility for training and assisting staff in utilizing the MBA course platform, maintaining department website and any other.

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Phi Gamma Delta Little Sister

Education record

2004-2005 Completed two courses in Accounting

Sociology

Completed several Graduate level courses