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News Archive for Home Depot
Q & A   06.25.09 12:56 PM
Home Depot's Shannon Gerber Is Streamlining—and Saving Money on—Small Meetings Planned by Admins
Shannon Gerber is director of events management for Home Depot’s Atlanta headquarters. With the company since 2002, she was initially hired to oversee enterprise-wide events such as the annual managers’ and shareholders’ meetings. Over the years, though, she realized smaller meetings were falling through the cracks when her team would be called to do damage control for contracts or commitments negotiated by administrative staff or other non-pros. In late 2007, Home Depot rolled out a pilot program, EventsTHD, to capture and manage smaller meetings and events. A year in the making, EventsTHD was rolled out companywide in February 2008. 

What was the impetus to put the plan in place?
For me, it was being a part of so many different organizations, like Meetings Competitive Advantage Forum and the National Business Travel Association Groups and Meetings Committee. It’s learning from people around you. We recognized that there was a need to centralize the process, which would provide greater cost savings. It was just finding the time to focus on it and make it a priority. MORE >>

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