Rosen Shingle Creek

Venessa Grant is the Midwest National Sales Manager for Rosen Hotels & Resorts. Venessa handles the Midwest market for worldwide corporate and association business. She is based out of the Rosen Shingle Creek sales office in Orlando and travels extensively to the Midwest region to enhance and broaden the Rosen Hotels & Resorts' client base.

A nearly 20-year industry veteran, Venessa’s varied background includes incentive and corporate meetings as a Director, Account Executive and Sourcing Manager. She began her career with the incentive market working at EF MacDonald/Carlson Marketing Group, where she was a Travel Buyer and Supervisor for 10 years working with clients including General Motors, Chrysler, IBM, Shell Oil and Lucent Technologies and worked with major events such as the Olympic Games and Super Bowl games. Her most recent 10 years were spent as Director of Sales (Midwest) for Navigant Performance Group in Chicago, where she was the top sales producer for four consecutive years. One of her greatest achievements has been as a multiple award-winning speaker with Toastmasters International; she enjoys public speaking.

Growing up in Dayton Ohio, Venessa spent her time reading, playing the clarinet and traveling with her marching and concert band to local, regional and state events. She also dreamed of traveling and seeing the world – a dream that has come true for her – Venessa has had the opportunity to travel to all 7 continents.

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