Risk, Reward, Repeat: Choosing Courage Over Comfort
Season 6, Episode 4
Featured Guest: Deanna Nwosu, Program Manager, REI
What would you do if you truly believed you only had one life to live? Deanna Nwosu, Program Manager at REI, shares how she’s learned to take bold risks, embrace fear with courage and grow her confidence.
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Meet Our Guest:
Deanna Nwosu is a hostess at heart, which led to a career in event planning. She has been part of the hospitality and events industry for her entire career - nearly 25 years. As a result, she brings unique strategic insight on meeting stakeholder expectations while still creating inclusive, engaging experiences for every audience she serves.
A CMP since 2017, Deanna now works on internal events, experiences and content for employees at REI Co-op. Her current role blends her love of content creation and storytelling with gathering humans to foster learning and connection.
As a mom of two girls and lover of hot summer weather, Deanna is always dreaming of a beach vacation.
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More About Our Host
Courtney believes that transforming past experiences into impactful conversations through raw, authentic storytelling challenges the status quo, connects people from all walks of life and results in great change for the world.
Courtney is the youngest member to have ever been elected to Meeting Professionals International’s (MPI) International Board of Directors.
She is the recipient of Smart Meetings’ Entrepreneur Award, MeetingsNet’s Changemaker Award, the Association for Women in Events (AWE) Disruptor Award, the MPI Chairman’s Award and MPI RISE Award.
Named Collaborate and Connect Magazine’s 40 under 40 and a Meetings Today Trendsetter.
Recognized as one of the event industry’s most impactful change-makers, Courtney serves on the Events Industry Sexual Harassment Task Force, AWE’s Board of Directors, MPI’s Women’s Advisory Board, is a Meetings Mean Business Ambassador and is the co-founder of the award-winning movement, #MeetingsToo.
Courtney was named as a 2020 Meetings Trendsetter by Meetings Today.
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