Engaging Concepts
Rebecca Grinnals is widely regarded as one of the foremost experts on the business of weddings & honeymoons. She is the founder and President of wedding and honeymoon industry consulting firm, Engaging Concepts based in Celebration, FL. Rebecca is a sought after industry consultant, speaker, trainer and business trend expert. She has been a featured guest on CBS’ “The Early Show,” CNN, Entertainment Tonight, CNBC and hundreds of other national and international television & radio programs. She was named as a BIZBASH Event Innovator 2014: Most Innovative People in Events and Meetings. She serves as the Chairperson of the Leadership Advisory Board of WIPA (Wedding Industry Professionals Association) and was recently named as one of the “Top Ten Social Media Influencers in the Wedding Industry” by WedBiz Journal.
Prior to creating Engaging Concepts, Rebecca co-founded Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings & Honeymoons for The Walt Disney Company, and spent ten years developing the concept into an unprecedented success. She directed the complete branding strategy, development and implementation of the program, building it into almost a $100 million per year business for Walt Disney World, Disneyland, and the Disney Cruise Line. These efforts resulted in over 20,000 weddings and the coveted status for Disney as the # 1 Domestic Honeymoon Destination.
In 2008, she and Kathryn Arce created an innovative series of luxury wedding business summits called Engage! which twice a year bring together 350 of the wedding industries key influencers, thought leaders and tastemakers from around the globe to connect and exchange ideas, innovate and be inspired to take their successful businesses and, in turn, the wedding industry to the next level. All fourteen Engage! events to date have been complete advance sell outs with top wedding professionals participating from over 45 states and 29 countries and have met with rave reviews from attendees and speakers alike.
Clients of Engaging Concepts include :: The Cayman Islands Department of Tourism, Hilton Worldwide, Sandals & Beaches Resorts, InterContinental Hotels Asia-Pacific, Loews Hotels & Resorts, Palace Resorts, Hard Rock Resorts International, the Tavistock Group, Graceland/Elvis Presley Enterprises, Harley-Davidson, the Kessler Collection, Disneyland Resort, various developers and venture capital firms as well as hotels & resorts in China, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Barbados, throughout the US & Caribbean and many leading luxury wedding and event professionals worldwide.
She speaks and consults around the world on the business of weddings.
Engaging Concepts
Kathryn Arce is officially the Managing Director of Engaging Concepts but has come to be known by the far more fitting title of “Director of Awesome.” Her command of flawless event execution is second to none. She focuses on exacting wedding and event service performance and detailed operations and provides clients with clear and strategic industry best practices. She has been instrumental in developing powerful wedding and event service tools that result in increased business revenues. Additionally, Kathryn creates dynamic and functional wedding and event sales & service processes and standard operating guidelines.
A logistical maverick, she and Rebecca Grinnals created an innovative series of luxury wedding business summits in 2008 called Engage! which twice a year bring together 350 of the wedding industries key influencers and tastemakers from around the world to exchange ideas, network and be inspired to take their businesses to the next level of success. All fourteen Engage! events have been complete sell outs and met with rave reviews from attendees and speakers alike. She was named as a BIZBASH Event Innovator 2014: Most Innovative People in Events and Meetings.
We are honored and thrilled to have been named as BIZBASH 2014 Event Innovators: Most Innovative People in Events and Meetings for our work with engage! over the past 7 years! Click here to read the full profile piece. We are so grateful for this accolade and send special thank you’s to David Adler, Anna [...]
We are delighted to launch the official websites for the engage!13 events at Biltmore Estate and Montelucia Resort & Spa. Click on the image below to view both websites including speaker line ups, program details and much more! Looking forward to ‘engaging’ with you!
KEY FACTS ABOUT ENGAGING CONCEPTS, INC.
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US Businesses
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Companies in Florida
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Orange County Companies
- Company name
- ENGAGING CONCEPTS, INC.
- Status
- Active
- Filed Number
- P04000043001
- FEI Number
- 861048754
- Date of Incorporation
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March 8, 2004
Age - 21 years
- Home State
- FL
- Company Type
- Domestic for Profit
CONTACTS
- Website
- http://engagingconcepts.com
- Phones
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(407) 566-2298
(407) 489-8508
ENGAGING CONCEPTS, INC. NEAR ME
- Principal Address
- 5061 Sawyer Cove Way,
Windermere,
FL,
34786,
US
- Mailing Address
- P.O. BOX 470236,
CELEBRATION,
FL,
34747
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