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United Kingdom · Events Experiential Marketing · Lead Level (8-12 years)

Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist

Here is the whole job, in plain words. What it is, a real day, what you decide, how you're judged, how people get here and where they go next. Then the part no course gives you: twelve AI tutors who learn your work.

  • Experience bandLead Level (8-12 years)
  • Direct reports3-8 reports
  • Reports toAttendee Engagement Manager (L5)
  • UK framework levelUsually a manager, or the deepest specialist in a team

Also advertised as Principal Events Experience Designer · Senior Manager, Attendee Journey · Head of Event Experience

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1What this role really is

This isn't just about running events; it's about designing the entire human experience for our attendees, from the moment they first hear about us until long after the event wraps up. You'll be the architect of those crucial interactions, making sure every touchpoint feels deliberate, engaging, and genuinely valuable. We're talking about shaping the very heart of what makes our events memorable and impactful, driving real business outcomes while making people feel truly connected.

2What you'd actually use

The tools this job runs on, and how well you'd need to know each one.

Cvent (or Bizzabo, Hopin, Splash)Advanced

Designing complex registration paths, configuring API integrations with CRM/MA, building custom reports to track attendee behaviour and engagement.

Salesforce (Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud)Advanced

Creating and managing event campaigns, building custom dashboards for event ROI, troubleshooting data sync issues between event platforms and the CRM.

Socio (Webex Events), Whova, Bizzabo MobileExpert

Designing gamification rules, configuring personalised agendas, and analysing in-app analytics to make real-time decisions that boost engagement.

Marketo (or Pardot, HubSpot Marketing Hub)Advanced

Creating complex, multi-touch nurture streams for pre- and post-event communication, segmenting attendees based on their engagement behaviour.

SurveyMonkey (or Typeform, Qualtrics)Advanced

Designing surveys to measure specific KPIs (like NPS), analysing open-ended feedback, and presenting findings to stakeholders to drive continuous improvement.

Asana (or Monday.com, ClickUp)Expert

Building and managing detailed project plans for engagement workstreams, overseeing dependencies with other teams, and creating automated workflows for efficiency.

Tableau (or Google Data Studio, Power BI)Advanced

Connecting data sources (e.g., Cvent, Salesforce, mobile app) to build custom dashboards that track engagement against strategic goals and provide actionable insights.

3What you get to decide, and how that grows

Power in a job isn't your title. It's what you're allowed to decide. Here's how it grows as you move up.

The choiceComing inWhere you are nowThe step above
Event Engagement Strategy DesignProposes basic engagement tactics for review.Designs specific engagement features (e.g., mobile app gamification) within a broader strategy, with manager review.Leads the design of a complete engagement strategy for a major event, with Director input on key strategic choices.
Budget Allocation (Workstream Specific)Tracks expenses against allocated budget, flags discrepancies.Manages budget for specific engagement initiatives (e.g., mobile app features) up to £10K, with manager approval.Manages project budgets up to £50K, making recommendations for larger spend. Approves vendor invoices within this limit.
Team Leadership & DevelopmentNo direct reports. Focuses on personal learning and task execution.Provides informal guidance to new joiners, shares knowledge.Mentors 1-2 junior team members, provides feedback on their work, helps unstick them on complex tasks.

4How you'll be judged

The scoreboard, honestly: the hard targets, how often each one is actually looked at, and the quiet human signals that never make it onto a dashboard.

Event Net Promoter Score (NPS)
Measures overall attendee satisfaction and likelihood to recommend our events.
Target · >70 (for flagship events)

If our last big conference hit an NPS of 68, you'd be looking to push that up to 70 or higher by identifying key friction points and designing solutions.

Attendee Engagement Score
A composite score based on mobile app usage (session attendance, networking, gamification participation) and survey feedback.
Target · 15% YoY increase in average score

If attendees spent an average of 45 minutes in the app last year, you'd aim for 50+ minutes this year, alongside higher participation in polls and Q&A sessions.

Session-to-Lead Conversion Rate
The percentage of attendees who engage with a sponsored session or booth that then convert into a qualified sales lead.
Target · 10% increase for key sponsored tracks

If 100 people attended a product demo session and 10 became qualified leads, that's a 10% conversion. You'd work to get that to 11% or more through better session design and follow-up.

Team Project Delivery (On-Time/On-Budget)
The proportion of engagement workstreams (e.g., mobile app build, gamification launch) delivered according to plan.
Target · 90% of projects delivered on-time and within budget

If your team is responsible for 5 major engagement projects in a quarter, you'd aim for at least 4.5 of them to hit their deadlines and cost estimates.

Strategic Influence & Collaboration
How effectively you shape event strategy by bringing an attendee-first perspective and getting buy-in from senior stakeholders.
  • You're consistently invited to high-level planning meetings. Your recommendations for experience design are adopted. Marketing and Sales teams actively seek your input on content and messaging. You're seen as the go-to expert for 'what attendees actually want'.
Mentorship & Team Development
The growth and capability building of the junior members of your team.
  • Your direct reports show clear progression in their skills and autonomy. They're asking fewer basic questions and taking on more complex tasks. You're providing regular, constructive feedback and helping them navigate tricky situations. One of your L2s gets promoted to L3 within 18 months.
Innovation in Experience Design
Your ability to introduce new, effective engagement tactics that genuinely enhance the attendee experience.
  • You're piloting new technologies or engagement formats (e.g., AI-driven networking, immersive content). These innovations are then adopted for future events because they demonstrably improve metrics like dwell time or sentiment. You're bringing fresh ideas to the table, not just doing what we've always done.

5Would you like it

The honest version. What people enjoy, and what grinds them down.

What people enjoy
Creating Memorable Experiences

You get a real buzz from designing something that genuinely delights people. You're constantly thinking about how to craft those 'wow' moments for attendees.

Seeing positive social media buzz about a new interactive zone you designed, or getting direct feedback from an attendee about how much they loved a personalised recommendation.

Solving Complex Puzzles

You thrive on taking a big, messy problem – like 'how do we get more people to network meaningfully?' – and breaking it down into actionable, creative solutions.

Successfully integrating disparate data sources to create a truly personalised agenda for thousands of attendees, overcoming technical hurdles along the way.

Driving Tangible Impact

You're not just doing things for the sake of it; you want to see your efforts translate into measurable improvements for the business and for attendee satisfaction.

Presenting a report showing a significant uplift in sponsor lead generation directly attributable to the gamification strategy you implemented.

What frustrates people
  • The 'Butts in Seats' Fallacy: Constantly battling stakeholders (especially Sales) who only measure success by the number of scanned badges, ignoring the quality of engagement and experience.
  • Last-Minute 'Urgent' Changes: A C-level exec deciding they want a different walk-on song 10 minutes before their keynote, or a sponsor demanding a last-minute change to their booth location, causing a domino effect of chaos.
  • Data Integration Hell: Spending days trying to reconcile attendee data between the event platform, the mobile app, and the corporate CRM because the APIs don't sync perfectly.
  • Attendee Apathy: Meticulously planning an incredible interactive experience only to watch half the attendees ignore it and make a beeline for the open bar or their hotel room.
What this role does not give you
  • A predictable, 9-to-5 schedule, especially around event times.
  • An environment where every single idea you have gets implemented without compromise.
  • A role where you only focus on creative design without needing to dive into data and metrics.
  • Complete control over all aspects of an event (you'll always be part of a bigger team).

6Who you work with

This role directly shapes the success of our flagship events, which often represent significant investments and are critical for pipeline generation, brand building, and customer loyalty. Your work ensures attendees get real value, which in turn drives our business forward. Get it right, and you're directly contributing to our bottom line and market perception; get it wrong, and we're wasting a lot of money and goodwill.

Inside the business
  • Head of Events & Experiential Marketing
  • Marketing Directors (Product, Brand, Content)
  • Sales Leadership (VP of Sales, Regional Directors)
  • Product Management Leads
  • Operations Team Leads
Outside the business
  • Key Event Sponsors and Partners
  • Event Technology Vendors (Cvent, Bizzabo, Socio)
  • Creative Agencies (Experience Design, Production)
  • Industry Thought Leaders and Speakers

7What you need before you start

Not a wish list. The things you would be expected to already have.

  • Proven experience (5+ years) in designing and implementing attendee engagement strategies for large-scale events, ideally in a Senior Specialist capacity.
  • Demonstrable experience leading small project teams or mentoring junior staff, showing you can guide others effectively.
  • A strong track record of using event technology (e.g., Cvent, mobile apps) to drive engagement and collect data.
  • The ability to analyse complex event data and translate it into actionable insights and strategic recommendations.
  • Experience managing project-specific budgets and making sound financial decisions.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, with a knack for presenting to senior audiences and influencing cross-functional partners.

8What to practise next

Where the job is going, and what to do about it starting this week.

Advanced Event Tech Stack Optimisation

As our event portfolio grows, so does the complexity of our tech stack. You'll need to move beyond just using tools to strategically optimising their integration, data flow, and cost-effectiveness across multiple events.

API Management & Orchestration · Data Warehousing for Event Insights · Vendor Ecosystem Strategy · Cost-Benefit Analysis of Tech Investments

  • This quarter: Deep dive into the API documentation of our core event platforms (Cvent, Salesforce).
  • Next 6 months: Work closely with our IT/Data team to understand our current data warehousing approach for event data.
  • Month 7-12: Lead a review of our current event tech stack, identifying areas for consolidation or improvement.
  • Ongoing: Stay updated on new event tech solutions and their integration capabilities.

Quick win: Map out the current data flow between our main event platform and CRM. Where are the bottlenecks or manual steps?

9Staying current once you are in

What people here do to keep up
  • Attending industry conferences focused on event technology, experience design, or digital marketing (e.g., Event Tech Live, Experiential Marketing Summit).
  • Subscribing to leading industry publications and newsletters to stay abreast of trends and innovations.
  • Participating in online courses or workshops on advanced data analytics, UX design, or behavioural psychology.
  • Networking with peers and thought leaders in the events industry to share best practices and learn from others' experiences.

10How the AI economy is changing work like this

Before we ask anything of you, here's what we can already say about AI and work of this kind:

The new skill this role is being asked for: Ethical AI & Data Governance for Experience Design

As we lean more on AI for personalisation and sentiment analysis, understanding the ethical implications and ensuring data privacy isn't just a 'nice to have'—it's a 'must have'. Attendees are increasingly sensitive about how their data is used.

We'll only ever tell you what we can actually back up. No hype, no scare tactics.

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2 units that map to this job, from the qualifications that cover it.

  1. Engage with communities on behalf of a creative and cultural organisationPearson EDI · covers 2 of 2 standardsLevel 3
  2. Support the organisation of creative or cultural events or exhibitionsPearson EDI · covers 1 of 2 standardsLevel 3
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The rising capability

Zavmo analysis

What's rising in its place

This is where the work is heading, and the higher pay with it. Get fluent here and the shift stops being a threat and starts being your edge.

Ethical AI & Data Governance for Experience Design

As we lean more on AI for personalisation and sentiment analysis, understanding the ethical implications and ensuring data privacy isn't just a 'nice to have'—it's a 'must have'. Attendees are increasingly sensitive about how their data is used.

  • Bias Detection in AI Algorithms
  • Explainable AI (XAI)
  • Data Minimisation Principles
  • Consent Management for AI-driven Experiences

Immersive Experience Design (XR/Metaverse)

While still nascent, extended reality (XR) and metaverse concepts are slowly creeping into experiential marketing. Understanding how to design truly immersive, interactive digital experiences will be a differentiator.

  • Spatial Computing Principles
  • Haptic Feedback & Sensory Integration
  • Avatar & Identity Management
  • Interoperability of Virtual Worlds

What you’ll use

Skills this role draws on

Technical

  • Attendee Journey Mapping
  • Experience Design (XD) Principles
  • Gamification Strategy
  • Community Management
  • Content Personalisation & Curation
  • Event Attribution Modeling

The pathway

How you actually get there, here

How you become one varies far more by country than what one does. This is the UK route. Most people take one of these ways in; the right one depends on where you're starting from.

  1. 1

    Senior Attendee Engagement Specialist (L3)

    2-4 years in role

    Skills to master

    • Leading complex engagement projects end-to-end, mentoring junior team members, making data-driven recommendations, and influencing project-level stakeholders.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Consistently delivering high-quality engagement strategies for major event workstreams.
    • Proactively identifying and solving complex engagement challenges without constant supervision.
    • Demonstrating strong leadership potential by guiding and developing junior colleagues.
    • Successfully presenting strategic recommendations to senior management with clear rationale.
  2. 2

    Marketing Manager (Events Focus)

    3-5 years in role

    Skills to master

    • Broader marketing strategy, campaign management, budget ownership, and cross-channel integration. You'd bring a strong attendee-first perspective to the marketing function.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Proven ability to translate event engagement goals into broader marketing objectives and vice-versa.
    • Strong understanding of marketing automation and CRM systems beyond just event-specific uses.
    • Experience managing marketing budgets and reporting on campaign ROI.
    • Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with sales and product teams on go-to-market strategies.
  3. 3

    Product Manager (Event Tech)

    4-6 years in role

    Skills to master

    • Product lifecycle management, user experience (UX) design, technical specifications, and vendor relationship management for event technology solutions. You'd be building the tools you used to use.

    You're ready to move on when

    • Deep understanding of event technology capabilities and limitations, with ideas for improvement.
    • Experience working closely with engineering or development teams on technical integrations.
    • Strong analytical skills for identifying user needs and defining product requirements.
    • Ability to articulate a product vision and roadmap.

11Where this role leads

The long view:This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. You'll gain invaluable experience designing impactful experiences, leading teams, and influencing strategy, setting you up for a truly exciting and varied career in the events, marketing, or customer experience sectors.

Pay & demand

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The ten Future Fluencies

Zavmo analysis

The credential is what you can do today. These are what keep you valuable.

A qualification proves you can do the job as it's defined today. These ten are what decide whether you're still the obvious person for it in five years. They're the capabilities employers are now writing into senior roles faster than people are learning them. Zavmo weaves them through whatever you study, so you come out with both: the credential and the fluency.

The highlighted ones are the Fluencies your role leans on hardest, from how Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist is actually changing. In about two minutes, the free confidence check asks where you stand on each of the ten. That's the whole check, and it's what makes the plan yours rather than generic.

Where it leads

Roles this leads to

12The team that's yours

No two people are taught the same way. This is one-to-one, not one-to-many.

Zavmo is a hyper-personalised AI learning platform. Twelve virtual tutors, each with a different way of teaching, and one orchestration agent that picks the right one for the moment. So every single lesson is shaped around you, your role, and the way you learn. Not a course everyone sits through. A conversation built for you, and no one else.

…and nine more, matched to you after your first chat. Meet all twelve

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13What it feels like

A conversation, not a course

Because your tutor knows your role, your projects and your last session, learning sounds like this. And it's different for every single person:

Engage with communities on behalf of a creative and cultural organisationLevel 5

Applied to your work in Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist

This unit aims to enable learners to develop community engagement plans, engage with communities, and review and improve community engagement practices for a creative and cultural organisation.

How the thinking builds
  1. Remember
  2. Understand
  3. Apply
  4. Analyse
  5. Evaluate
  6. Create
An illustration of a Zavmo lesson, built from this role’s own route. The unit, its objective and every criterion above are the awarding body’s own words, not an example.

One to one, not one to many

No two people run this the same way

A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.

  1. Your actual work Every lesson is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
  2. What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
  3. The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
  4. How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
  5. Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.

See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.

DemonstrateIllustration

Evidenced on your work in Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist

You do not finish by watching something. You finish by showing it on the work you already do, against the measures this job is judged on.

  • Event Net Promoter Score (NPS)Measures overall attendee satisfaction and likelihood to recommend our events.If our last big conference hit an NPS of 68, you'd be looking to push that up to 70 or higher by identifying key friction points and designing solutions.>70 (for flagship events)
  • Attendee Engagement ScoreA composite score based on mobile app usage (session attendance, networking, gamification participation) and survey feedback.If attendees spent an average of 45 minutes in the app last year, you'd aim for 50+ minutes this year, alongside higher participation in polls and Q&A sessions.15% YoY increase in average score
  • Session-to-Lead Conversion RateThe percentage of attendees who engage with a sponsored session or booth that then convert into a qualified sales lead.If 100 people attended a product demo session and 10 became qualified leads, that's a 10% conversion. You'd work to get that to 11% or more through better session design and follow-up.10% increase for key sponsored tracks
  • Team Project Delivery (On-Time/On-Budget)The proportion of engagement workstreams (e.g., mobile app build, gamification launch) delivered according to plan.If your team is responsible for 5 major engagement projects in a quarter, you'd aim for at least 4.5 of them to hit their deadlines and cost estimates.90% of projects delivered on-time and within budget
These are this job's own measures, with its own targets. Nothing is marked evidenced, because nobody has started this yet. Yours would fill in from the work you bring.

Your passport

This isn't a certificate you file away. It's a passport to the life you're designing.

Every credit you earn and every fluency you build adds up: evidence where it counts, carried with you. Zavmo keeps the map: where you are, where you're heading, and the next step, at your pace, around your life. From Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist to Attendee Engagement Manager (L5), and whatever you decide comes after.

Level 5 · in progressAI Fluency→ Attendee Engagement Manager (L5)→ your design
Where this takes you

This role isn't just a job; it's a launchpad. You'll gain invaluable experience designing impactful experiences, leading teams, and influencing strategy, setting you up for a truly exciting and varied career in the events, marketing, or customer experience sectors.

See Your Progress GrowIllustration
Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist
  • Attendee Journey Mapping
  • Experience Design (XD) Principles
  • Gamification Strategy
  • Community Management
  • Content Personalisation & Curation
  • Event Attribution Modeling
This is your Mind Palace on learn.zavmo.ai. Every skill above comes from this role's own record, not an example borrowed from another job. A node lights up when you evidence it, and what you build stays yours between jobs. That is the part a course cannot do.

14The detail, folded away

Everything else the record holds

The career branches in full, how AI is already showing up in the day-to-day, and the questions people ask about this job. Here when you want them, out of the way while you decide.

Where it leads next, rung by rung

Where it leads

The career path, and where it branches

Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist is a start, not a ceiling. Each step below asks for new skills and hands back more autonomy.

  1. Attendee Engagement Manager (L5)

    3-5 years in role

    This is a significant step up, moving from architecting specific experiences to directing the entire attendee engagement function for a portfolio of events. You'll own the overall strategy, budget, and team.

    • Portfolio-level Event Attribution Modelling
    • Advanced Vendor Relationship Management (strategic partnerships)
    • Event Tech Stack Consolidation & Optimisation
    • Cross-functional Programme Leadership
Working with AI on the job

Working with AI

Where AI is starting to help

Let's be real, you're already doing a lot. But what if you could offload some of the heavy lifting, the repetitive tasks, and get to the strategic stuff faster? That's where AI comes in. We're not talking about replacing you; we're talking about giving you a superpower.

In Events Experiential Marketing, AI isn't just a buzzword; it's a game-changer for how we design, deliver, and measure attendee engagement. For a Lead Strategist, this means less time wrestling with data or drafting communications, and more time actually strategising, innovating, and leading your team.

Personalised Agenda Automation

Imagine an AI engine that analyses each attendee's registration details (job title, industry, interests) and past event behaviour, then automatically generates a perfectly tailored session agenda and a list of relevant networking contacts. You'll spend less time manually segmenting and more time refining the *logic* of personalisation.

Real-Time Sentiment Analysis

Use AI tools to monitor social media hashtags, in-app chat, and survey responses during an event. It'll flag negative sentiment (e.g., 'the Wi-Fi is terrible,' 'this session is boring') in real-time, allowing your team to intervene immediately. This cuts down manual monitoring by 80% and speeds up crisis response from hours to minutes.

Smart Speaker & Sponsor Briefings

Let an AI assistant research and generate concise briefing documents for your internal stakeholders. It can summarise a speaker's key topics, a sponsor's business objectives, and even suggest key talking points for 1:1 meetings. This saves your team roughly 5-8 hours per event of manual research and document creation.

Post-Session Summary Generation

AI can transcribe session recordings and automatically create bulleted summaries of key takeaways, list questions asked, and even draft social media posts. This means content is available on-demand almost instantly, saving your team 40-50 hours per event on transcription review and content writing.

Common questions

Common questions

How do you become a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist?

Common routes in include Senior Attendee Engagement Specialist (L3) (2-4 years in role), Marketing Manager (Events Focus) (3-5 years in role) and Product Manager (Event Tech) (4-6 years in role). Times vary with prior experience.

Where can a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist progress to?

This role can lead on to Attendee Engagement Manager (L5) (3-5 years in role), depending on the skills you build.

What level is a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist in the UK?

This role aligns to RQF Level 5 on the UK framework, a guide to the depth of qualification it maps to, not a hard entry bar.

What new skills matter most for a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist?

Increasingly, Ethical AI & Data Governance for Experience Design and Immersive Experience Design (XR/Metaverse). These are the areas where the higher-paid, future-proof work is heading.

The honest bit

You’ve started things before

Most of them were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.

There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.

And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.

What it costs

Less than one coaching session. Every month.

A single career-coaching hour costs more than a month of this, and it ends when the hour does. Zavmo doesn't. It's £70 a month, about £2.30 a day, for a companion that knows a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist, works on the job you actually do, and keeps going at your pace rather than a timetable's.

  • Searching and planning stay free. You only pay when you start learning.
  • Your credits are yours. Regulated, and they don't vanish when a subscription ends.
  • Cancel any time and billing stops. No notice period, no minimum term.

Your path, personalised

You have the map. Walking it is the part we do together.

This route runs to 2 national skill standards. That is a real journey.

Zavmo shapes a learning experience as unique as you are. It fits how you learn, your pace and the work you already do. Every step stays benchmarked to recognised national standards. That’s the plan for becoming a Lead Attendee Engagement Strategist: personal to you, and it still counts. The first steps are free.

Independent research finds well-designed intelligent tutoring performs nearly as well as one-to-one human tutoring: VanLehn (2011), Educational Psychologist.

A private tutor in the UK averages £35–40 an hour . Zavmo is £70/month.

A real plan on learn.zavmo.ai: Ofqual-regulated units, credits, and a three-month run at your own pace.
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15Where to go from here

Other roles at Level 5

Same depth of qualification, different job. Useful if the work appeals but this particular role does not.

Other roles in Events Experiential Marketing

Stay in the field you know and move sideways rather than up.

If you leave this industry

The skills you'll hone here—experience design, data-driven strategy, stakeholder influence, and team leadership—are highly transferable. You could easily pivot into broader marketing leadership roles, customer experience (CX) design, product management (especially for event tech companies), or even consulting within the experiential space. Your ability to understand and shape human behaviour is valuable everywhere.

Not sure this is the right direction?

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