Hi there! I’m Liz Leary.
Thanks for checking this out! Chances are you found your way here because you are either passively or desperately googling how to connect your team.
Perhaps you’re an office manager in a well established company looking to revive employee engagement amidst RTO resistance.
Maybe you’re the founder of a remote-first start-up looking for advice on how to create more impactful virtual connection moments.
Maybe you're an employee or workplace experience manager whose company adopted a hybrid schedule and now you’re struggling to find equitability in your offerings.
Or maybe you're a Chief of Staff, Executive Assistant, or team manager who's planning their very first offsite and you don’t want to screw it up.
Whatever reason brought you here, there’s a common thread…You’re all looking to build more meaningful relationships for you and your teams. Good on you!!
So many companies claim their employees are “part of the fabric;” or the company is “nothing without their people;” or my personal favorite… “We’re a family.” (gross)
I’m sure most leadership teams have all the right intentions. They are hopeful by expressing the sentiment they can speak it into existence. Well, if that were true I would be out of a job. 😉
To make sure these are not empty promises you need thoughtful, culture-minded people planning programs & events to support your teams. Otherwise sweeping statements like these tend to go from sincere to cringy pretty quickly.
Hard truth - anyone can slap a logo on a mug and call it swag. Throw some apps on a table, beers in a cooler and call it a happy hour. That’s not culture. No matter how fancy you make that mug or bougie the craft beer, it’s not where the solution lies. It starts with your employees knowing each other. Not knowing OF each other, KNOWING each other. Making authentic connections is the foundation of healthy & sustainable company culture. That can be done for every company, every team, in every industry, whether you’re IRL, virtual, or hybrid. It can be done, and I’m gonna teach you how to do it!
I’ve been an events & experience designer for well over a decade. I’ve worked in vastly different industries, with a wide variety of “customers” to solve for - restaurant, medical, entertainment, non-profit, tech, even a wedding planner a time or two. For me it didn’t matter where I was solving the problem, but who I was solving it for. I was always, and will always be all about people. That’s what I’m vowing to teach you here. To be the most thoughtful, heart-forward, intentional bad-ass planner you can be!
Each week I’ll be posting tips, tricks, insights and anecdotes from my colorful career. Describing in detail how YOU can be the hero of your team by injecting meaning and purpose into every experience. I’m hoping by sharing my journey we can reinvent how teams connect in the future of work.
