Most Requested Topics
High Performance business leadership (Rev up your Business Engine!)
Women Entrepreneurs (Success and Balance for the Female Entrepreneur)
Weddings/Bridal
Mentoring and Talent Development (Mentoring the Rising Stars on Your Team)
Brand Building (Developing and Nurturing a Strong Brand)
Team Building among businesses (The Power of Networking and Relationship Building)
Making Changes to your Business (Implementing and Embracing Change)
Balancing being an entrepreneur and a Mom (Mommy and Business Owner/Succeed at Both!)
Personality Marketing--Gearing your Sales and Marketing to Client Personalities
About This Speaker
Uniquely geared to service the everyday bride, Susan Southerland is one of the foremost experts in the wedding industry. Her experience includes planning thousands of weddings around the country and the world in which she carefully executes each detail with passion and precision. What challenges drives her to achieve at such a high level? Her basic philosophy that smaller budget weddings require much more creativity and original thinking to formulate unique memories and experiences.
Susan is president of Just Marry!, a full service wedding planning company with offices in Orlando, Florida. She is also the national wedding expert for Perfect Wedding Guide, where her entertaining and informative blog regularly dispenses excellent advice, ideas and photos to readers. Couples can also find a wealth of information at www.SusanSoutherland.com.
In March of 2011, Universal Studios Orlando announced a partnership with Susan as its exclusive wedding planner for couples marrying at the numerous exciting venues and locations at the park. She and her team of planners will work alongside Universal Orlando’s wedding events team, helping arrange all aspects of weddings from the attire, colors, guest lists and budgets for the big day.
Susan’s exceptional weddings have been featured numerous times on the Style Network’s “Whose Wedding Is It Anyway?” and TLC’s “A Wedding Story.” Her cutting-edge advice has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Orlando Sentinel, Orlando Leisure, Good Day Dallas, WKMG-TV, Fox Orlando and The Orlando Business Journal and D Brides, WTHR-TV.
Even more impressive, she is also given the prestigious recognition as one of only 30 wedding planners worldwide as an “A-List Planner” by Destination Weddings and Honeymoons.
She will work with you to customize her program to address your challenges and interests for your attendees.
What Clients Are Saying
"Your Session on Personality Marketing burned in my ears for the remainder of the conference and on my flight home. Upon arriving home I went straight from the airport to a consult with a potential client. I started picking up on some of the things she was saying and quickly picked up on which type she was. I quickly applied some of the tips you offered in terms of communications, listening and then responding and every single approach worked!"
--Lindsey, Wedding Planner
"Dear Susan, I listened to your presentation at WMBA and I have to say you are an inspiration to me. I truly aspire to be a great planner; someone like you!" Anna, Event Manager
"Our initial communications to the bride have completely changed and we have seen our response rate go from 10 percent to 65 percent thanks to Susan's Secrets."
Cameron, Wedding DJ |
