Laurie Fredericks Email & Phone Number

Westlake Village, CA

• Development, execution and management of all Enterprise Wide Corporate Events including: Agency Appreciation Incentive Trips, C-Suite Executive Events, Business Development & Distribution in-person and Virtual Events.
• Development, execution and management of all enterprise-wide Corporate Events, Board meetings, Agency Council meetings / Events, Executive Events, Waste Management Phoenix Open Suite, Sporting Events
• Sourced, planned and executed several Agency Appreciation Trips for 80 - 110 guests, including site inspection, contract negotiation and execution, budget management, web site development and marketing materials
• Responsible for enterprise-wide budget management in excess of $5,000,000.00
• Expertise in contract negotiation and DocuSign execution
• Development, execution and management of Executive / Business Development and Distribution Virtual Events

Westlake Village, California, United States

• Development, execution and management of all Enterprise Wide Corporate Events including: Agency Appreciation Incentive Trips, C-Suite Executive Events, Business Development & Distribution in-person and Virtual Events.
• Development, execution and management of all enterprise-wide Corporate Events, Board meetings, Agency Council meetings / Events, Executive Events, Waste Management Phoenix Open Suite, Sporting Events
• Sourced, planned and executed several Agency Appreciation Trips for 80 - 110 guests, including site inspection, contract negotiation and execution, budget management, web site development and marketing materials
• Responsible for enterprise-wide budget management in excess of $2,000,000.00
• Expertise in contract negotiation and DocuSign execution
• Development, execution and management of Executive / Business Development and Distribution Virtual Events

San Francisco, California

• Full-service incentive and meeting planning
• RFP’s, pre-event planning, site selection, décor / production design management
• Budget development and management
• DMC and staff management
• Contract negotiation with multiple vendors
• On-site program management

Napa / Bay Area

• Cultivate client relationships with verbal and e-mail contact, face-to-face meetings / presentations
• Project / Event design management, execution and on-site senior event manager
• Contract / proposal generation and execution using IntelliEvent platform
• Build relationships with venues, consultants to ensure high levels of vendor and client satisfaction
• Lead team to drive sales and run weekly sales / manager meetings
• Improve operations, decrease turnaround times and streamline work processes

Tempe, Arizona

• RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Full service incentive trip and meeting planner
• Review, negotiate and manage hotel, decor, supplier and DMC contracts
• Budget development, management and post event analysis and reporting
• On-site Senior Event Manager
• Source, coordinate and plan site inspections and events

Scottsdale, AZ

• Full service meeting planning to include but not limited to: Communication with clients at all levels of organization (both written and conversational), pre-event planning, staff travel, budget management,attendee.

Chico, CA

• Supervised ten full-time and forty part-time contractual employees
• Managed team development, event coordination, philanthropic programs local and global
• Planned and executed all overseas programs, including Life Cycles, supplying underprivileged children with bicycles, helmets and locks, and Helping Hands, providing prosthetic hands to amputees in over 75 countries to.
• Made financial and managerial decisions to benefit operation of all aspects of the business
• Performed annual budget, forecasting, inventory, program contracts and statements of work, client contacts and relations, and employee and HR management
• Performed tax planning and preparation with corporate CPA from 2001-2014.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Coordinated the communication of program and logistical information between Gage Marketing in Minnesota and Levi’s marketing groups in San Francisco
• Provided customer service to the brand, marketing services and customer business development organizations by researching and providing program information
• Managed Levi’s Brand marketing programs on the Gage Marketing website
• Distributed retail marketing updates to the customer business development team and all marketing groups.

Eastern Europe / Riga, Latvia

• Worked at National Latvian Tourist Board in Riga, Latvia
• Developed, wrote, received and reconciled three USAID funded European Business Development grants
• Attended international tourism markets in Tallinn, Estonia; Riga, Latvia; London, England and Berlin, Germany
• Worked on a multitude of varying projects, including: Overseas Tourism Training Program in San Francisco, email and internet implementation and training in seven work sites in country, development of Quick E-mail.
• Developed and conducted a three day seminar on tourism for fifty participants
• Prepared and distributed press releases