Heather Reid
CVP

Heather Reid

ARCT MScON, CANADA
Heather is living proof that you can't plan for everything! Managing change, facing challenges and creating new perspectives in our own life and in the lives of those we lead, are absolutely possible.
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With more than 25 years' experience in the Canadian meetings and events industry as an entrepreneurial event planner and an award-winning industry consultant, Heather is no stranger to change and challenges in her professional life. As a survivor of youth trauma herself, and the mom of two children with thought-provoking life stories of their own – Heather is no stranger to change and challenges in her personal life too!

Since 1994, Heather Reid has owned a full-service event planning agency, and in 2016 founded the award-winning consulting agency known as Planner Protect Inc. – a company dedicated to addressing the niche need for education and consulting services for event contract negotiations.

Heather has received awards for her thought leadership and commitment to the events industry including a Smart Women in Meetings award in the "Innovator" category, and the Meetings & Incentive Travel Canada's Hall of Fame award – also in the "Innovator" category. In addition to speaking and teaching at numerous industry events over the years, Heather is a regular contributor to magazines, newsletters and podcasts.

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With more than 25 years' experience in the Canadian meetings and events industry as an entrepreneurial event planner and an award-winning industry consultant, Heather is no stranger to change and challenges in her professional life. As a survivor of youth trauma herself, and the mom of two children with thought-provoking life stories of their own – Heather is no stranger to change and challenges in her personal life too!

Since 1994, Heather Reid has owned a full-service event planning agency, and in 2016 founded the award-winning consulting agency known as Planner Protect Inc. – a company dedicated to addressing the niche need for education and consulting services for event contract negotiations.

Heather has received awards for her thought leadership and commitment to the events industry including a Smart Women in Meetings award in the "Innovator" category, and the Meetings & Incentive Travel Canada's Hall of Fame award – also in the "Innovator" category. In addition to speaking and teaching at numerous industry events over the years, Heather is a regular contributor to magazines, newsletters and podcasts.

Heather Certificado de presentador virtual de

Double Dare Leadership

Facing adversity and being able to adapt quickly seems to be the current norm, and yet even the strongest people can be thrown into a state of vulnerability and uncertainty.

Leadership in shifting times requires that we lead with "open hearts and strong backs".  Learning how to be transparent and tenacious will move leaders, and those they lead, forward through great change.

Drawing on her own lived experiences through incredible challenges, along with her...
Educational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing
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