Susan Southerland

Susan Southerland Speaker Biography

Entrepreneur, event planner, author, business consultant, wife, and mother of four, Susan Southerland is one of the foremost experts in the event industry today. She is president of Just Events! Group, Inc., an event management company encompassing Just Marry!, and Just Right! Destination Management, two brands that service events from intimate weddings to elaborate corporate functions. She applies her business savvy toward sharing tips and insights with new and established entrepreneurs throughout the world.

Susan’s exceptional events have been featured on The Travel Channel, Style Network, and The Learning Channel. Her cutting-edge advice has headlined national television news and radio broadcasts and has appeared in Inc. Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, USA Today, the Huffington Post, and periodicals around the world.

Her career began in weddings and has since expanded to include all types of events. Her expertise is so widely recognized and loved that she was even given the prestigious recognition as one of only 30 wedding planners worldwide as an "A-List Planner" by Destination Weddings and Honeymoons Magazine and Event Planning University named her one of the top 25 most influential wedding planners in the world.

Susan shares her business advice at conferences such as Wedding MBA, The Rental Show, NACE, The Special Event, Inc. Women’s Summit, CaterSource, and Love Mexico. She also consults one-on-one with organizations, resorts, event professionals, and entrepreneurs who want to make their businesses flourish while maintaining sane work and personal environments.