Rebecca Berry
Ideas students learned from Rebecca
Questions:
What is one major event you’ve hosted?
What inspired you to become an events manager?
How has karma affected you and your career?
What type of risks have to taken to become where you are today?
What worried you the most about taking risks?
How did you get involved?
What risks do you take?
What did you do to get noticed?
Why did you come back to Campbell River?
How did your job make you feel?
In what ways has karma worked for you?
How did you make it out of Campbell River?
What’s it like working in Whistler?
How do you keep such a positive attitude?
What inspired you to take a different direction?
How hard was it to set up a conference in Africa?
What makes you believe that good things happen?
How did you go from being a receptionist to being an event coordinator?
How did you stay motivated during the transition?
What difficulties did you have?
How many people do you meet in a day?
What kind of risks did you take?
What good things have come from changing?
What major event did you host?
What inspired you to become an events coordinator?
Rebecca Berry is an extraordinary woman, she started off as receptionist with an event planning company and with excellent fortune and hardwork she had worked herself up the ladder to becoming an Event Manager with the TED Conference within two years. She has travelled many places from Whistler to Africa.
Rebecca Berry’s belief is that if you are a kind and dedicated person, you will be successful in life, even if it isn’t easy, do what you enjoy because good things happen!
What really surprised me about Rebecca was that even with all of her amazing accomplishments in event planning she still really just wants to be known as a ‘nice person’. Her ‘say yes’ attitude and belief that no job is below her, along with being nice was able to get her places. She was able to work her way up in a company from receptionist to major event planner. This is an idea I can use in my daily life and something I need to remember.
Rebecca was able to start out as a secretary and work her way up to Conference Planner by being noticed. She never said ‘no’ to a task, and always did her best. She is a happy person and knows that good things happen. I know that being nice can get you places and I heard that when someone is screaming, they are the one with the problem.
I was surprised because I don’t think I would have been able to put a conference in Africa with everything going wrong I think I would have given up when I saw the roads washed out but Rebecca with nothing going right still pulled it off. Thank you for coming in and talking to our class.
i thought it was interesting when you said you just wanted to be recognized as a nice person
I appreciated Rebecca’s goal for life; being ‘nice’ is ultimately the most important thing. Good things happen; thanks for sharing your advice to say ‘YES’….look where it got her!