Alexis Johnson, MNM, CFRE

About

Empowering leaders and organizations to thrive by turning obstacles into opportunities through resilience and innovation. With extensive experience in creative production, event management, and organizational consulting, I am dedicated to fostering growth and change in various sectors, including entertainment, hospitality, and nonprofit management. Skills include project management, budget management, process enhancement, and creative strategy.

Experience

• Live Event Stage Manager for Disney Event Group · Disney Experiences2025-02-01 –
• Associate Director, Event Production · Encore2024-08-01 –

  Career Highlight: • Promoted from Sr. Producer to Associate Director in August of 2024 – leading Event Producers servicing High Frequency accounts.

• Senior Producer, Event Production · Encore2022-10-01 –

  Career Highlights: • Developed a first ever Best Practices Playbook for key account while serving as their Sr. Producer for 2.5+ years. • Assembled a consistent team for event production to better serve the client consistently across the country for all events. • Produced 8 events, within 10 weeks, during the fall of 2024 consisting of 73% of the total revenue from key account in the year. • Led multi-site teams, comprised of 230 total crew and production team members, through 640+ hours of preplanning and 2,050 execution hours for a 7-stop roadshow that occurred over the course of 2.5 weeks in November 2023. • Serving as 1 of the first 3 Encore Social Media Ambassadors working with corporate marketing team to achieve company goals.

• CEO | Leadership Coach | Organizational Consultant | Speaker | Content Creator and Thought Leader · 21st Century Gal, LLC2011-01-01 –

  From Making Magic to Changing Lives: Transforming Leadership and Revolutionizing Organizations

• Guest Experience Manager - Entertainment · Walt Disney World2021-12-01 – 2025-02-01
• Director Of Business Development · Entertainment Central Productions2021-09-01 – 2022-09-01

  Career Highlights: • Nurtured efficient communication and collaboration to ensure timely delivery of production and creative projects. • Developed new business proposals and delivered pitches in partnership with sales, marketing, and creative teams. • Edited and improved additions for the website and YouTube channel through close interface with IT team.

• Live Event Stage Manager for Disney Event Group · Disney Experiences2017-10-01 – 2021-12-01
• Production Manger / Live Event Stage Manager / Entertainment Planning Manager for Disney Event Group · Disney Experiences2013-08-01 – 2017-10-01

  Career Highlights: • Played a key role in overseeing more than 2,750 events that ranged from intimate weddings, along with $1.5M to $10M theme park buyouts, best-in-class conferences, and $2M to $3.5M immersive extravaganzas for groups of 4 to 15,000 guests or attendees. • Achieved successful events in collaboration with key stakeholders, including creative director, producer, show director, technical director, creative costuming, creative media, third-party technical & talent vendors, catering, park event operations, convention services, procurement, production planners, permitting, electrical, casting, sales, cast, crew, and clients.

• Foundation Executive Director · USTA Florida2017-10-01 – 2021-10-01

  Career Highlights: • Maintained active involvement in all board meetings to provide consistency and transparency to volunteer leadership. • Partnered with board in processing and awarding of 4 grants and the accountability reports for supported organizations. • Ensured consistent voice and message for the Foundation through provision of direction and focus for all marketing and branding initiatives. • Leveraged technical aptitude in Teams, Google Meet Live Stream, WebEx, SharePoint, Canva, Later, SalesForce, Jira, and Adobe Connect in executing assigned functions, along with Funraise in planning donor database, WordPress in website development, and WizeHive for grant application management. • Realized increase in funding by 31% 2018 over 2017, 42% in 2019 over 2018, and 2021 Q1 donations exceed 2020 EOY as sole staff fundraiser. 2021 total donations were the highest raised for the organization in history up to that point. • Competently assumed role of Project Manager for the USTA Florida Employee Recognition Project and three subsequent Employee Resource Groups and module educator for the annual USTA Florida Leadership Academy.

• Guest Service Manager / Guest Experience Manager - Entertainment · Walt Disney World2013-02-01 – 2016-06-01

  Career Highlights: • Achieved success of Disney Performing Arts’ Festival Disney shows through dynamic conflict resolution, administration of cues, and management of technicians for set and instrument changes between student groups, as well as working with youth market team to coordinate all student groups.

• Manager of Event Technologies · AVT Event Technologies2011-07-01 – 2012-06-01
• Stage, Production, and Entertainment Manager · SeaWorld Parks and Entertainment2008-05-01 – 2011-06-01
• Admissions Officer and Admissions Volunteer Programs Manager · University of Central Florida2006-11-01 – 2008-04-01
• Event Manager / Box Office Manager / Volunteer Programs Manager · The Henegar Center for the Arts2006-03-01 – 2006-11-01

Education

• University of Central FloridaMaster of Nonprofit Management, Nonprofit Management
• University of Central Florida – Rosen College of Hospitality ManagementBachelor of Science in Hospitality Management, Hospitality Management
• Oklahoma City UniversityEntertainment Business
• Eastern Florida State CollegeAssociate of Arts - AA, General Studies

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