Event Business Academy

Build Events.
Build a Business.

Practical training, proven templates and professional tools for event planners who want to deliver better events, win better clients and build more profitable event businesses.

PracticalBusiness-focused learning
ProfessionalTemplates and assessments
ProfitableSystems for sustainable growth
Built for serious
event professionals
The Event Manager's MBA
Event Money by Kingsley Aigbona

THE BUSINESS BEHIND THE EVENT

Great events deserve
strong businesses.

A beautiful event is only part of the job. Behind it are the proposals, budgets, people and decisions that determine whether your business grows.

Event Business Academy brings the planning and commercial sides together—helping you approach each event with clearer systems and stronger business judgement.

WIN THE WORK

Turn enquiries
into opportunities.

Understand the brief, communicate your value and prepare proposals that give clients a clear reason to choose you.

  • Client discovery and briefs
  • Proposals and service positioning
  • Professional client communication
DELIVER WITH CONTROL

Make every moving
part work together.

Translate an event idea into a practical plan, with clear responsibilities, coordinated vendors and a workable timeline.

  • Planning schedules and run sheets
  • Vendor and team coordination
  • Contingencies and event-day checks
PROTECT THE BUSINESS

Know your numbers.
Build for growth.

Look beyond the event budget to your fees, costs and cash flow—and understand what each project contributes to your business.

  • Pricing and profitability
  • Payment schedules and cost tracking
  • Post-event reviews and improvement
OUR APPROACH

Learn the principles. Apply them to real events. Build systems you can use again.

YOUR NEXT STEP

What would you like
to work on?

Whether you are starting out or already managing events, choose the support that fits your next challenge.

COURSES & TRAINING

Build my event
management skills

Develop your understanding of planning, coordination and the business decisions behind successful events.

Explore courses
ONLINE PLANNING TOOLS

Organise my
next event

Give your event a clearer structure, from the initial brief and budget to the schedule and delivery checklist.

Explore planning tools
TEMPLATES & TOOLKITS

Give my work
a stronger structure

Find practical documents to support client briefs, proposals, budgets and event coordination.

Explore templates
COACHING & MENTORING

Move my event
business forward

Work through challenges in positioning, pricing, client relationships and the way you run your business.

Explore coaching

Unsure where to start? Take a closer look at your strengths and areas for improvement.

Explore assessments
Event Money book cover by Kingsley Aigbona
THE EVENT MANAGER’S MBABy Kingsley Aigbona

THE BOOK BEHIND THE ACADEMY

Event Money

How You Too Can Make Millions From The Ever-Growing Event Industry

Bring a business mindset
to your passion for events.

Creativity brings an event to life. Business thinking helps you turn that work into a sustainable enterprise. Event Money introduces the commercial side of event planning, management and coordination.

Whether you are exploring the industry or strengthening an existing business, start with the bigger question: how can the value you create at events become lasting value for your business?

FOR THE ASPIRING PLANNERFOR THE EVENT ENTREPRENEUR
Explore Event Money

Discover the book and take your next step into the business of events.

PROFESSIONAL EVENT-PLANNING TOOLS

From a great idea
to a clear plan.

Bring structure to the brief, clarity to the numbers and order to event day. We’re developing practical tools for the work event planners do every day.

COMING SOON TO EVENT BUSINESS ACADEMY

01 / DEFINE

Event Brief Builder

Turn a client conversation into a structured brief covering the purpose, audience, scope and priorities of the event.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU CLARIFY
  • Objectives and guest profile
  • Budget expectations and key dates
  • Deliverables and client requirements
Start with shared expectations.Coming soon
02 / BUDGET

Event Budget Planner

Map out the cost of delivering the event and see how each spending category fits within the available budget.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU ORGANISE
  • Itemised costs and quantities
  • Budget allocations and contingency
  • Estimated costs against actual spend
Give every cost a place.Coming soon
03 / PRICE

Event Pricing &
Profit Calculator

Explore how your proposed fee and business costs affect the profit you expect to retain from a project.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU ESTIMATE
  • Your fee and delivery costs
  • Expected profit and profit margin
  • The effect of changing your price
Quote with clearer numbers.Coming soon
04 / COORDINATE

Event Run-Sheet Builder

Arrange event-day activities into a clear running order so your team knows what happens, when and who is responsible.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU SCHEDULE
  • Activities, start times and durations
  • Responsible people and locations
  • Production cues and handover notes
Keep everyone on the same page.Coming soon

PROFESSIONAL EVENT-PLANNING TOOLS

From a great idea
to a clear plan.

Bring structure to the brief, clarity to the numbers and order to event day. We’re developing practical tools for the work event planners do every day.

COMING SOON TO EVENT BUSINESS ACADEMY

01 / DEFINE

Event Brief Builder

Turn a client conversation into a structured brief covering the purpose, audience, scope and priorities of the event.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU CLARIFY
  • Objectives and guest profile
  • Budget expectations and key dates
  • Deliverables and client requirements
Start with shared expectations.Coming soon
02 / BUDGET

Event Budget Planner

Map out the cost of delivering the event and see how each spending category fits within the available budget.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU ORGANISE
  • Itemised costs and quantities
  • Budget allocations and contingency
  • Estimated costs against actual spend
Give every cost a place.Coming soon
03 / PRICE

Event Pricing &
Profit Calculator

Explore how your proposed fee and business costs affect the profit you expect to retain from a project.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU ESTIMATE
  • Your fee and delivery costs
  • Expected profit and profit margin
  • The effect of changing your price
Quote with clearer numbers.Coming soon
04 / COORDINATE

Event Run-Sheet Builder

Arrange event-day activities into a clear running order so your team knows what happens, when and who is responsible.

WHAT IT WILL HELP YOU SCHEDULE
  • Activities, start times and durations
  • Responsible people and locations
  • Production cues and handover notes
Keep everyone on the same page.Coming soon

TEMPLATES & TOOLKITS

Give every project
a stronger starting point.

We’re preparing practical documents you can adapt to your clients, your team and the way you work—from the first enquiry to the final review.

CLIENT WORK

Client & Proposal
Toolkit

Bring clarity to client conversations and present the scope of your work professionally.

PLANNED RESOURCES

  • Client discovery questionnaire
  • Event proposal template
  • Scope-of-work checklist
  • Client approval tracker
Coming soon
EVENT DELIVERY

Planning &
Coordination Toolkit

Keep the people, tasks and practical details of your event organised in one working set.

PLANNED RESOURCES

  • Master planning checklist
  • Vendor comparison worksheet
  • Team responsibility matrix
  • Event-day handover checklist
Coming soon
BUSINESS CONTROL

Event Business
Toolkit

Keep track of commitments, review project results and turn lessons into better working habits.

PLANNED RESOURCES

  • Event business checklist
  • Payment milestone tracker
  • Post-event review worksheet
  • Client feedback questionnaire
Coming soon
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