New Wisdom Bank Profiles: Questex’s Paul Miller, ELX’s Nicola Kastner, and The Imagination Collaborative’s Iain Morrison
You Need to Know Them If You Don’t Already
Three people. Three very different corners of the gathering economy. Paul Miller has built Questex into one of the most data-driven event companies in the country while quietly leading the independent show organizer community through SISO. Nicola Kastner has spent her career making the case — with receipts — that the corporate event is not a cost center but a controlled environment where business outcomes are compressed and accelerated. And Iain Morrison has taken thirty-five years of backstage operational experience and turned it into some of the most honest thinking in the industry about leadership, burnout, and the invisible systems that determine whether a live event holds together or doesn’t.
These long-form profiles are some of my favorite work. Each one takes real time — and each one comes with two things I can’t help myself from adding: a song I pair with the subject, because every great profile has a soundtrack, and an edible profile on my new site SmallBiteArchitecture.com, where I distill the whole story into the sharpest possible mouthful. If you haven’t found that site yet, go look.
Read them. Send them to someone who needs them. And send me recommendations of who else we should include in our Gathering Economy Wisdom Bank- David@gatheringpoint.news.
[Next week: Bryan Rafanelli, Tim Groot, and Femi Oke. On deck later this month Andrew Roby, Terry O’Dwyer, and many more