Think Splendid is an award-winning business consulting firm focused exclusively on the $1.3 trillion global wedding market.
For nearly 20 years, clients from 97 countries have entrusted us with their toughest wedding business challenges – knowing our unmatched experience, unparalleled expertise, and unbreakable discretion brings them profitable results time after time.
Not only has Liene guided our company, she has opened doors for many in our industry (including myself). I have witnessed Liene, time and time again, use her knowledge and leadership in generous ways to help others further their careers and lives.
Every conversation with Liene Stevens is a life changing experience! She gives the best advice and makes two hours feel like 20 minutes.
I always love whenever I get a chance to spend time with Liene. She keeps me thinking out of the box!
Liene Stevens has single-handedly taught me more about leveraging my business than any other source. Liene has the ability to leverage brands in stratospheres most barely scratch the surface of. With her, it’s long term growth, not fly by night or flashes in the pan.
You are a true wedding industry maven. Thank you so much for the generosity of spirit you've shown to a lot of us in general and to me in particular. It's very much appreciated.
As a boutique consulting firm, we run lean by design.
Liene Stevens, our founder, leads strategy and is personally involved in every project. Rachel Cohen heads our wedding market research operations and David Johnson focuses on tourism.
For projects that require additional experts, we are happy to collaborate with your retained agency partners or pull from our extensive and vetted global network of architects, environmental engineers, HR executives, CPAs, attorneys, graphic designers, publicists, media producers, travel advisors, and more.
Liene Stevens
FOUNDER & CEO
Liene Stevens, the founder and CEO of Think Splendid, is an author, speaker, award-winning luxury business strategist and behavioral psychologist.
Named by Special Events magazine as one of “12 Young Professionals to Watch,” Liene’s research on consumer behavior has been taught in the MBA curriculum at 41 universities worldwide – including Cornell, Notre Dame, the University of Cape Town, Bangkok University, the University of Port Harcourt, and the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa – as well as cited in more than 30 scientific and academic journals, including the Asia Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, the Journal of Festival Management and Event Tourism, the Central European Management Journal, and the African Journal of Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure.
Liene is also the founder of Splendid Insights, the leading wedding market research firm and the first to publish wedding statistics on the luxury and ultra-luxury wedding markets serving HNW, VHNW, and UHNW brides and grooms.
Prior to the wedding industry, Liene’s career included strategic development as an NGO executive. During that tenure she also led international high-stakes crisis management, working closely with then-Secretary of State Colin Powell and his team.
As an expert on the business of weddings, Liene has appeared as an industry spokesperson on hundreds of TV programs and news media outlets including The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, France 24, Vogue Thailand, and The Times of Japan.
Liene currently serves as an Allied Council board member for the National Society of Black Wedding and Event Professionals. She previously served on the Board of Directors for the New York Metro chapter of the International Live Events Association (ILEA) and the Advisory Board for the Wedding and Event Institute.
In addition, she is the author of the books, Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace: Marketing Your Wedding Business in Today's World and Luxe Love: Marketing and Selling Luxury Weddings. Her third book, The Pricing Bible: The Art & Science of Getting Your Numbers Right is forthcoming in October 2024.
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