KELLY CHANDLERKeynote Speaker & Empowering Trainer
Private training days, high level insight days, keynote speaker sessions, webinars & workshops
Kelly has been an inspiring wedding industry professional that I have followed my whole career, so to get to work with her in my role at Exclusive Collection has been truly fantastic. Kelly and I regularly keep in touch to discuss industry updates, she continually supports me in my role of managing a busy group of seven wedding venues and is someone in the industry you can truly trust. Kelly has also been a key speaker at our latest wedding team training day, where the team were able to learn about latest wedding trends and learn how to convert better using her wealth of knowledge in couples buying trends.
Sarah Boardman
Group Wedding Sales Manager • Exclusive Collection
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The Venue RX
Unpacking the latest in venue business trends - market saturation, embracing innovation, rising influence of social media on guest expectations and the Gen Z wedding customer.
Engaging and Empowering
Kelly is an entrepreneur and frequent keynote speaker on the business of weddings & private events, rural diversification as well as mental mastery, business success and growth. Kelly’s style is engaging, straight-talking, approachable and empathetic. She comes from an operational background, having curated and project-managed thousands of events, sensitivity handling tricky brides, keeping exasperated Chefs from imploding, keeping large teams on track, complex logistics juggled and tackling whatever challenges live events bring–you know those things that absolutely aren’t mentioned on the function sheet!
She also speaks from almost 20 years as an entrepreneur and business owner where she’s been hands-on, self-taught, made sales and marketing mistakes and thrown herself into every aspect of running multiple successful businesses and diversifed revenue streams. With persistence, determination and a good dose of humour!
5 to 500
She is regularly commissioned to speak on an exciting range of subjects, to intimate groups of 5 to gatherings of 500.
Kelly presents to venue teams including property owners, Heritage estate custodians, Hotel senior management teams (GMs, Ops Directors, Sales & Marketing Directors), Venue Managers, Wedding Co-ordinators, Marketing Teams and Wedding Planners.
She is also in demand by leaders, founders and ambitious entrepreneurs from a variety of business sectors.
Example Keynote Topics
Successful Rural business diversification into weddings
Sales Success with ease using neuroscience
Getting Out of Our Own Way – Doing the Inner Work for growth
Millennials and Gen Z customer psychology
Falling out of love with your business – what next?
PROVEN RESULTSHand Picked Hotels
Kelly produced some excellent trend analysis and market insight for us at Hand Picked. With Kelly, we developed a series of interactive and informative workshops which the team really engaged with - Kelly is extremely knowledgeable and passionate about her craft and we very much value her input.
