
Shonali Devereaux
Chief Executive of the Meetings Industry Association; emcee, speaker, and mentor in events management with 25+ years of industry experience
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Jun 14, 2026
Shonali Devereaux (Meetings Industry Association) & Damien Leith (Musician & Aus Idol Winner)
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Shonali DevereauxGUEST
But, so it was sometime in my 40s when I was like, "I really can't be back of house anymore.

Shonali DevereauxGUEST
I really don't have the energy for this, um, to constantly service client need, and I need to desperately find what it is that I'm doing that isn't logistics management in events." And that was partly the break to the British Heart Foundation, and every job teaches you something, and at that point I was doing a lot of leadership coaching because that was the, the flavor of management in British Heart Foundation at the time.

Shonali DevereauxGUEST
So I thought, I said to Jim, "Look, I need to, I need to find what makes me tick, and, uh, we, can we reorganize our finances for..." I thought it would be, like, I'm like, three months.

Shonali DevereauxGUEST
It took about a year and a half to figure out, uh, where my real calling was, right? And I found it in March 2020.
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