Events Manager

As an events professional, you want to deliver the highest quality experiences for your clients.

Making your events less wasteful and polluting is good for people, planet and business.

But finding the time to dedicate to sustainability can be difficult.

  • Do you find making the “right choices” confusing?
  • Is it a struggle to get clients to see the bigger picture, beyond their budget concerns?

You’re not alone. During lockdown, the Sustainable Event Alliance Hackathon attracted 500 people from around the world, as more events professionals are looking to get upskilled around sustainability.

There’s a clear desire to clean up the industry, but as an event professional, you might not know where to start.

As an experienced sustainable event manager working on festivals, hospitality and corporate events I have created a wealth of resources to support you with taking action:

  • Adopting a sustainable event mindset
  • Creating a sustainability policy and action plan with your team or clients
  • Getting to grips with your waste
  • Understand how to deliver change at your events
  • Auditing your events impacts

Don’t know where to begin? I offer customised consultancy support

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Who am I to be your Sustainable Sidekick?

I’m Livvy, a behaviour change expert and sustainability consultant on a mission to engage people beyond the green echo chamber and help businesses like yours achieve their goals!

I was working on large scale events in Australia when I had my a-ha moment to take action for mother nature. I initially thought I would go to save the rainforest but realised that the events industry was unbelievably wasteful and I should start in my own backyard. I went on to do training on sustainable event delivery and started working with Shambala - one of the greenest festivals in Europe, as well as training event managers in sustainability and auditing events around the world.

I have helped large scale events:

  • Audit and report on their impacts
  • Deliver behaviour change initiatives
  • Identify ways to reduce their waste

Just wanted to drop you a note to say thank you for the session today - we really enjoyed it. LOTS to think about!

Libby Barnes EMA Events