Natalie Simmons

During her 22 year career in the meeting and events industry, Natalie has worked and successfully led teams across all areas of the industry including event management, marketing, product, hotel food & beverage, sales and account management.

We are lucky to have Natalie as one of our original Womenwise Committee members. Her current role is Global General Manager of cievents.

Starting with the Ritz-Carlton Hotel Group, Natalie has been responsible for running hundreds of events. Natalie has been with cievents for over 20 years and has worked in all aspects of the business over that time; helping lead and grow the business from an Australian only based event logistics business to the now truly global strategic agency for the corporate market with operations in 7 countries, across 13 offices, offering services across event logistics, production, creative, digital & design.

Our customers are at the centre of what we do everyday.

In her role as Global General Manager, Natalie continues to work with our key clients to ensure that our clients’ event and marketing solutions exceed expectations, encapsulate their corporate values and achieve their business and financial objectives while profitably growing the cievents business offering globally. Natalie is also responsible for the other MICE related brands within Flight Centre Travel Group including Corporate Groups & ciloyalty.

Natalie lives and breathes FCTG Philosophies. She is a dedicated team player who, always puts her people and the customer first. She is a champion of women in her industry and a harder working person you will never meet. Because of her success and her dedication, we asked her:

What is your favourite FCTG Philosophy and Why?

Our customers are at the centre of what we do every day.

Through our passionate people, we are able to deliver amazing experiences to our customers across all FCTG brands and services. The FCTG spirit shines through in all of our dealings with our customers and it is this that separates us from our competitors and ensures that we deliver above and beyond to our customers. We truly care about creating amazing experiences and it is this attitude through everything we do that creates our global fan base of customers.