Plymouth Business School Speaker Sessions; Resilience in the face of adversity in the hospitality sector

Date:
21/07/2020

TIME: 12:00 pm — 1:00 pm
PRESENTED BY: University of Plymouth

We live increasingly in a world where rapid technological, social, economic and cultural change is leading to greater uncertainty.  How do individuals and organisations cope and respond?

Resilience, the ability to recover from challenges quickly is central to individual wellbeing, our ability to carve out a career path and for organisations to first survive and then thrive.

These sessions will offer practical guidance and inspiration to students and those recently graduated on how they can successfully adapt to change.  It will also help managers and employers understand how their organisations can successfully evolve.

Resilience in business; Hazel Parsons, Partner at Hazel Parsons Wedding, Marketing and Events Consultant, Associate Director of the National Association of Wedding Professionals

Hazel is well known as a super-connector for the South West of England. Her eponymous award-winning consultancy provides wedding businesses, venues and suppliers, with targeted marketing, sales, management, consultancy and events. Having worked within the hospitality sector for the last 22 years, Hazel has worked with some of the most prestigious hotels, country house estates and wedding venues in the South West, including projects for StIves Harbour Hotel, the Carbis Bay Estate, Launcells Barton, Trenderway Weddings, Ocean Studios, Pengenna Manor, Cosawes Barton and St.Aubyns Estates. Hazel talks about her journey in the hospitality sector from hotel management through to venue consultancy. She shares some of the challenges facing her industry and how to adapt.