Lisa Gareau is a life-long event planner and has been a Connection Strategy Coach for over a decade. When founding Candy Event Consulting in 2008, she began her life's work to help in-house and do-it-yourself event planners embrace their brilliance, activate their experience, and cultivate meaningful connections that would last through the events they plan. Lisa knows that events can become energized "connecting points" where communities can gather and grow, and she helps make this happen by offering high-level strategy sessions and deep-dive coaching guidance for everyday event planners and their teams. Her heart for community and passion for connection shines through as a speaker, facilitator, coach, and the creator of learning and connection opportunities for planners including Candy Academy of Event Planning + Promotion, Moments Magazine - Event Planning Ideas + Inspiration, The Connection Architect Program, The Connector Next Door Podcast for Planners, and now Candy's online mastermind - The REDI Room! Lisa loves living and working from her home base in Calgary, Alberta just a stone's throw from the Canadian Rockies – a favourite family playground.