June 18, 2025
New ILEA Michigan SHINE Awards 🌟
We’re honored to be recognized with the Best Behind the Scenes, Over $15K award at the inaugural ILEA Michigan SHINE Awards! Thank you to ILEA Michigan for celebrating the creativity and impact of event professionals across the state.
May 3, 2025
Celebrating 20 Years of Leadership!
Today marks a major milestone — our Chief Operating Officer, Lindsay Krause, is celebrating 20 years with Special D Events! We are deeply grateful for her two decades of impact, commitment, and inspiration.
March 7, 2025
Congratulations to Lindsay Krause, VEMM, EDEIS on being named one of the event Industries 2025 Women to Watch!
March 4, 2025
Lindsay Krause, VEMM, EDEIS participated in a panel discussion, “Ask the Planners Anything!” at the Sales and Service Summit with Tina-Marie Wassman of TNC Events, LLC and Maureen Kelley of Association Management Resources (AMR).
March 3, 2025
An enthusiastic welcome to Bri Oldham, Special D Events new Sales and Marketing Coordinator!
February 19, 2025
Carol Galle moderating an insightful panel discussion at Big Events, Big Impact: How Detroit Sets the Standard for Service Excellence!
February 3, 2025
Kelly Woo and Sherri Sitkauskas were thrilled to participate as interviewers for Grand Valley State University’s (GVSU) Hospitality and Tourism Management program career-prep course. At Special D Events, we love mentoring the next generation of event and hospitality professionals!
December 30, 2024
Michigan Meetings + Events magazine shares our 2025 business event trends.
November 1, 2024
Congratulations are in order to Evan Hazlett for his promotion to Meeting and Event Manager!
November 1, 2024
Special D Events is very excited to welcome Allie Matuzak to our team as Operations Assistant!
September 6, 2024
Check out what inspires our COO, Lindsay Krause!
September 3, 2024
Congratulations to our President and CEO Carol Galle for being named one of the 2024 Meeting professionals of the year by SMART Meetings Magazine.
July 23, 2024
One of our Meeting and Event Managers, Sherri Sitkauskas, was reinstated as an Ann Arbor Certified Tourism Ambassador (CTA)! This means she’s got top-notch knowledge and skills to make every visitor’s experience in Ann Arbor fantastic. Special D Events is looking forward utilizing Sherri’s in-depth knowledge about local attractions, history, and hospitality practices to help share everything that makes Ann Arbor special.
