State Dinners to Top-Secret EventsLessons From a Former White House Social Secretary
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Host:\\xa0David Adler
Guest:\\xa0Deesha Dyer
Imagine orchestrating a visit from the pope\\xa0and\\xa0a Chinese state dinner\\u2026 within days of each other. In this episode of GatherGeeks, recorded live at Connect Winter Marketplace in Washington, D.C, BizBash chairman and founder David Adler sits down with\\xa0Deesha Dyer, who served as the White House social secretary\\u2014the person responsible for planning and coordinating official social events at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.\\u2014for the last two years of the Obama administration. Dyer is also the founder and CEO of\\xa0Hook & Fasten, a social impact agency that specializes in transformational relationships between corporations and communities, diversity and inclusion, and executive operations. In this conversation, Dyers gets candid on navigating stressful moments in a high-stakes environment, working with Michelle Obama, how she started as an intern at the White House, lessons she\\u2019s learned, and insights on serving the country.
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