Alexandra Patton

Highly organized and detail-oriented event specialist passionate about executing exceptional events that achieve established goals. Experience with planning, budgeting and coordinating wide variety of both small-scale and large-scale events. Strong communicator and negotiator able to foster relationships with key stakeholders and vendors. Achievements include surpassing event success metrics through innovative registration and feedback systems.

Early Career Development Programs | Internal Meetings

• Lead planner on Lincoln Financial Early Career Programs such as Internships, Lincoln Leadership Preparation Program and the Actuarial Development Program.
• Coordinated planning calls between the events team and key stakeholders.
• Managed event timeline and key dates to keep everyone on track.
• Sourced venues, caterers, offsite activities and transportation for the events.
• Executed event logistics onsite to ensure success and key stakeholder satisfaction.

External Client Meetings

• Lead planner on smaller scale high profile external financial advisor meetings.
• Coordinated planning calls between the events team and key stakeholders.
• Managed event timeline and key dates to keep everyone on track.
• Sourced venues, offsite activities and transportation.
• Obtained compliance approval both internally and externally to ensure attendance.
• Managed travel for attendees using Lincoln Financial third party travel agency.
• Executed event logistics onsite to ensure success and key stakeholder satisfaction.

Hybrid Meetings | Lincoln Preparation Program & Marketing Summer Summits

• Coordinated planning calls between the events team and key stakeholders.
• Managed event timeline and key dates to keep everyone on track.
• Collaborated with Lincoln Financial IT team to display virtual presenter(s) to an in-person audience.
• Collaborated with Lincoln Financial IT team to assist with conference room set-up.
• When offsite, collaborated with venue AV team to ensure proper execution of production including stage set, projector/projector screen(s), microphones, speakers and speaker tech checks.
• Created show flows of the agenda(s) to share with the IT/AV teams to ensure everyone was acquainted with the flow of each session including, the stage set, the number of microphones needed, if presentations would be utilized, if Q&A would take place and the transition between speakers.