113: An Entrepreneurial Journey with Mahoganey Jones

<span style="font-weight: 400;">113: An Entrepreneurial Journey with Mahoganey Jones</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">We are delighted to be speaking with a rockstar in our industry today! Mahoganey Jones is a truly inspiring individual, and she is very well-known in the meeting and events industry! She is the Founder of Event Specialists and the first Canadian Event professional ever to become a Certified Digital Event Strategist! </span> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She tells her fascinating story, talks about the birth of her company, Event Specialists, and shares her thoughts, insights, and experience.</span></p> <p><strong>Bio:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Mahoganey is an event expert. She founded and runs Event Specialists, one of Canada’s pre-eminent event production and management firms. She is the FIRST (yah, the first!) Canadian Event professional to become a Certified Digital Event Strategist. She also considers herself a poutine aficionado! </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"> It has been 17+ years since Mahoganey took a jump into the Events world – and she still wakes up each day with a real love for her work! She has won numerous awards for her contributions to the events world, including the 2021 “Event Professional of the Year” & “Top 100 Most Influential People in the Events Industry.”</span></p> <p><strong>Mahoganey’s story</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Growing up, Mahoganey wanted to be a pediatric oncologist. So she began volunteering at a local hospital on her fourteenth birthday. She then got hired by the hospital to be on their events team and part of their fundraisers. She wanted to know where the money from fundraisers came from and how it would get used. She then realized that there was more to events than the eye could see. </span></p> <p><strong>An event professional </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Throughout her career, Mahoganey has only ever worked as an event professional. When in university, she planned c