Expertise
From bid stage to legacy, Mari leads catering, cleaning, waste and hospitality programmes that hold their nerve when the cameras come on.
Shaping CCW and hospitality strategy from bid stage through to host-city contract — aligning service vision with budget, sustainability and legacy ambitions.
Test events, simulations, table-top exercises and rehearsal programmes that ensure every kitchen, concession and waste stream is venue-ready on day one.
On-the-ground leadership of catering, cleaning and waste operations across athlete villages, stadia, hospitality suites and back-of-house.
Designing premium guest experiences for sponsors, dignitaries and rights-holders — from menu architecture to service choreography.
The Major-Event Lifecycle
Mari's work follows the framework taught on Trivandi Academy's Major Events 101 and The Essentials Series, where she contributes as faculty.
Why cities and countries bid; aligning bid strategies with economic and societal priorities; baking legacy in from the outset.
Programme management office, central planning, functional areas, concept of operations, client groups and service levels.
Event budget, procurement, host-city and venue agreements, sponsorship, ticketing, broadcast, licensing, look and branding.
Countdown planning, test events, simulations, table-top exercises and rehearsals — transitioning planning into opening-day operations.
Cross-functional event-time delivery — catering, cleaning, waste, hospitality and the choreography that holds them together.
Social, economic, environmental, health, cultural, political and sectoral impact, plus knowledge transfer to the next host.
Client Groups
Every major event simultaneously serves audiences with very different needs, protocols and service levels — often inside the same building, on the same day.
Capabilities in detail
Six practitioner capabilities, drawn from two decades of Olympic, Paralympic, FIFA, EOC, Asian Games and Expo programmes.
Designing and operating dining halls capable of producing tens of thousands of meals a day — across multiple cuisines, dietary protocols, religious requirements and round-the-clock service windows — without losing the warmth of the plate.
Sponsor, rights-holder, dignitary and head-of-state hospitality programmes — menu architecture, service choreography, allergen and provenance protocols, and the front-of-house standards that turn a meal into a memory.
Integrated cleaning, waste and recovery streams across an entire venue estate — from front-of-house presentation to back-of-house compliance, sustainability targets and post-event recovery.
Countdown planning, simulations, table-top exercises and rehearsal programmes — converting binders of planning into a living operation that performs from the moment the doors open.
Shaping CCW and hospitality narratives at bid stage — aligning service vision with budget envelopes, sustainability ambitions and the legacy story a host city wants to tell.
Translating two decades of practitioner experience into structured learning — video lectures, case studies and mentoring for the next generation of major-event leaders.
Who Mari works with
End-to-end CCW and hospitality leadership — from concept of operations through to event-time delivery and dissolution.
Strategic advisory on host-city contracts, fan-zone programmes, civic hospitality and protocol-grade event support.
Sport-specific catering, athlete welfare and venue-side hospitality standards across multi-sport and single-sport events.
Concession design, premium hospitality offers, back-of-house workflow and cleaning/waste integration across the venue estate.
Independent client-side advisory, mobilisation support and quality-assurance programmes for major-event contracts.
Bespoke guest-experience design, menu architecture and front-of-house service choreography for sponsor activations.
