Andrea Michaels
Andrea Michaels, author of Reflections of a Successful Wallflower - Lessons in Business; Lessons in Life, is an international event producer. She is the President/Founder of Extraordinary Events. For more than 35 years as a leading pioneer in the event production industry, she has established the trends, including paving the way for others to work internationally.
She is the winner of 50 Special Event Gala Awards, the Oscar of the event industry. She is the first inductee into the Special Event Industry Hall of Fame and a winner of the SITE Crystal and MPI Global Paragon Awards, as well as several American Business "Stevie" Awards for her live events. All of these are for impeccable and innovative meetings and events. In addition, in January, 2014, she was awarded the one-time-only "Pillar of the Industry" award by Special Events magazine during its annual convention.
Prominent events include the openings of Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel and Town Square, Lumiere Place in St. Louis and G.M. Place in Vancouver, NASA’s Space Shuttle Development Conference, Go-Daddy's holiday extravaganza, numerous media launches for BMW and international road shows for The Hong Kong Tourist Bureau, as well as a variety of clients globally.
Additionally her seminars on Creativity, The Profitability of Doing Business and Anatomy of an Event have earned her international kudos. In a few words, she sets the trends; others follow.
Visit her author Web site via http://outskirtspress.com/andreamichaels
or her company site at http://www.extraordinaryevents.net.
“Sharing your success with others reveals your true humanity. Don't ever be afraid to open your heart to that practice. It has made all the world of difference to me.”
“...I try to incorporate life's lessons from everyone around me and pay it forward anytime I can. I look at every person I meet as a new and thrilling experience with which I'm gifted. Every new city or country or continent that I visit is a beautiful exploration from which I can learn. Every new client or project represents the possibility of meeting new people and having new adventures.”
“Friendship is the most important thing in my life. It's rare to have friends like I've got. If I had as great a taste in husbands as I have in friends, what an even better life I would have had!”