Traciana Graves CEO

Traciana Graves has used her extraordinary passion and voice to drive leaders and individuals to create powerful breakthroughs in their personal and business lives.

The Huffington Post’s ‘America’s Most Fearless Woman’

As background vocalist touring with artists, such as Celine Dion and Steel Pulse, she began writing and developing workshops for orphanages, non-profits and other institutions around the world.

Her passion for helping people to optimize personal and interpersonal relationships at work and personal lives drove her to found Say Something Beautiful and Project Bully Free Zone

two national campaigns dedicated to ending bullying in the workplace, higher education institutions and schools.

Traciana speaks and consults throughout the country facilitating corporate training and organizational workshops for fortune 500 companies, the WNBA and hundreds of higher education institutions.

Besides the four services the VLNetwork is providing, they also are developing monthly events with each month a different inspirational topic. The VLNetwork distinguishes its events in two ways; the Visionary Salon and the Visionary Salon Tour. The Visionary Salon is only in New York and entails an event series for extraordinary breakthroughs in the business & life. It is dedicated to offering business leaders in the corporate and entrepreneurial sector the tools, connections and community for greater success. It is a monthly series that features key leaders from various industries, sharing insights and experiences with an intimate, live audience. Secondly, the tour of VLNetwork is a 5 City Tour in the U.S. that features multi-media experts from season one of their signature show, the Visionary Leader Series and workshops that build upon the exclusive insights of success revealed during the series.

THE EVENTS INTERN

Tasks during my placement:

Event management
Networking at other events to promote VLN events
Marketing (Events Promotion)
Sponsor acquisition
Social Media promotion our events and guests
Guest/ speaker outreach
PR
Coordination of participation of
Partnership acquisition with other complimentary events and organizations
Development of strategic corporate alliances
Coordination of promotional material from speakers (including support materials/white papers, power points , and worksheets

Additional Action Items:

Social media promotion of VLN (with active support of our Marketing Director): Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
Identifying and contacting potential coordinators of events, conferences and organizations for: VLN media partnerships, promotion of VLN and/or speaking opportunities for one or/some of VLN team members
Possible coordination and management of “virtual media livestream reporters” who are conducting interviews and livestream coverage of other select global events

PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT

One of the objectives of my placement company is to create systems for organizing events to implement them in other cities and businesses; Therefore,

I will write a project plan which serves as a blueprint for the future 5 City Tour. The project plan entails a general part (background, introduction), a program (concept & program) and TOQFIM (Time, organization, quality, facilities, information & communication and money). Lastly, an evaluation is included in order to finalize the project and to see where the minor points of improvement are located.

Main outcomes of the interview with a fourth year student; Paul.

A visa is very dependent on the country you are going to be on a placement. In the EU, one does not have to worry about a visa, however outside of Europe one has to apply for a work or intern visa. Often you have to send a letter of confirmation of the host company. In Switzerland a student visa was sufficient, however in Dubai it was very hard to apply for a visa. Paul had to send his certificates to the government to acknowledge officially that he graduated in the delivered certificates. Therefore, you have to research thoroughly on applying for a visa for America.
When looking at housing in other countries, Facebook is a super platform. Many student apartments are offered there of other students who are also going abroad. For instance, in Lausanne the Facebook page was called ‘Rent and subletting in Lausanne’ or ‘Dutch people in Switzerland’. In Bern I rented a place from a German girl which he found via Facebook.
Another aspect what could help is to have international connections. Paul knows people which are currently studying in all Europe. They are moving quite a lot to, therefore they are renting their rooms out. This is a good and effective way to help people.
When going abroad it is much nicer if you are living together with a number of people which hopefully are fun people. Especially when you are living there for a short period to have a great time.
Always look at the rules and regulations in the country you are visiting. Often you could find the information about practical things at the Dutch embassy. Sometimes the website could be not up to date or there is no information on the website. Then I would suggest to email the embassy for additional information, because it is literally their job to provide that kind of information.