Words travel differently in a room.

I speak about the ideas shaping destination organizations today, from strategy, technology, and visitor experience to the more human questions surrounding leadership, transition, and stewardship. Whether it’s a conference stage, classroom, panel, or conversation, I’m most interested in creating the kind of exchange people are still thinking about after they leave.

Keynotes & Conference Sessions

The best sessions don't just give people something to write down. They give them something to keep talking about after they leave the room.

My speaking has explored destination strategy, sales, technology, visitor experience, and the changing work of destination organizations. I'm also interested in the more human questions surrounding that work, including leadership, professional transition, and what stewardship can look like in practice.

Keynotes, conference sessions, panels, and facilitated conversations can be shaped around the audience and the conversation an organization wants to create.

Higher Education + Guest Lectures

Hospitality and tourism are often taught in disciplines. The work itself has a habit of crossing them.

Guest lectures and interactive classroom sessions connect what students are learning with the decisions, relationships, technology, and organizational realities shaping destination work today. Sessions can be adapted for undergraduate and graduate programs, faculty conversations, or industry-facing programs within colleges and universities.

Previously in the room

2023 | Breakout Session
Building Trust from the Inside Out with an Internal DEI Task Force
Co-presented with Leanna Acevedo. An inside look at Richmond Region Tourism’s internal DEI task force, including how it was built and structured and how DEI became foundational to the organization’s culture.
2025 | Breakout Session
Psychographics at the Helm: How an Unconventional Sales, Marketing, Partnership Redefines Audience Engagement
Explored psychographics and a cross-functional approach to sales, marketing, and partnerships as a way to understand and engage audiences differently.
2025 | Marketing Breakout Session
Maximizing Impact: Aligning Sales, Marketing, and PR for Destination Success
Focused on stronger alignment across sales, marketing, and public relations and the value of internal collaboration across those functions.
2024 | Panel
Designing Environments for Inclusivity and Impact
Explored how diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives can drive organizational change and provide valuable insight, including the role of benchmarking and using data to inform DEI commitments and policies.
2026 | Panel
How Meeting Planners and DMOs Can Get Their Information AI Ready
A panel exploring real stories and practical approaches to AI adoption and integration, including predictive intelligence and using AI to move from familiar precedent toward informed probability.
2022 | Breakout Session
Diversifying Your Database: Promoting DEI Through Your CRM
Demonstrated how destinations can use their CRM to support and measure diversity initiatives, including partner tags, reporting, and other ways of capturing useful DEI-related information.
2023 | Breakout Session
Better Together: How a Marketing Liaison Can Help Maximize Sales, Partnerships, and Campaigns
Explored the value of a marketing-focused leadership role within the sales function and how that connection can strengthen collaboration across sales, partnerships, and marketing campaigns.
2022 | Fireside Chat
Community Stewardship, Economic Impact & Diversity Initiatives
A conversation exploring the relationship between community stewardship, diversity initiatives, and their tangible and economic impact on destinations, drawing from the evolution of BLK RVA at Richmond Region Tourism.
2025 | Takeoff Talk
From Visitors to Visionaries: Maximizing the Destination Funnel
Explored AI adoption and integration across the destination funnel, including how visitors and meeting planners can be understood as the same people encountered at different points in their relationship with a destination.
2025 | Inaugural AI Playground Breakout Session
Advanced Prompting for Destination Sales
A practical session on prompting for destination sales, including how sales and marketing data can be used to move from talking points to turning points and toward predictive intelligence.

Here, Au There.

Speaking engagements can be shaped around the audience, format, and conversation you're hoping to create. Available for engagements in the U.S. and Europe.

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