Shari Zatman

Shari Zatman is a Destination Management Certified Professional (DMCP) and owner of Perfectly Planned by Shari. She is an award-winning event planner, consultant, public speaker, and industry educator. Shari has more than two decades of experience in corporate, non-profit, and social events, as well as having worked as an event vendor. Shari’s leveraged these insights to develop practical educational resources for the hospitality and event management industries. Her coaching tools – which include a 100-plus page event training handbook – highlight event-planning pitfalls and the skills to work through them (or even how to avoid them altogether). She began her professional career in interior design and has a true passion and eye for event design. She previously served as a board member of ILEA (formerly the International Special Events Society). She’s also a partner and principal planner and designer of the event production company Eventful Event Producers.