introducing marilee kostadimas

about marilee kostadimas

Strategist and storyteller Marilee Kostadimas, CMP, DMCP, delivers 20+ years’ experience and acumen in destination management, corporate events, and her specialty, incentive travel.

Marilee built an award-winning career on the power of professional storytelling. She did all the things:

Researching, designing, and delivering programs for the world's biggest corporations. Byline contributor to the international CMP bible, the Events Industry Council Manual 9th Edition. Leader in multiple industry associations. Entrepreneur. Public speaker. Writer. Mentor.

At the pinnacle of success, she and husband Paul Kostadimas suddenly and unexpectedly stepped out of the spotlight to care for their last parent. In that two-year journey with Mamma, they learned the profound power of personal storytelling, too.

Now at SPOTLIGHT SOJOURNS, they do new things:

They create compelling content and visual stories for travel, tourism, hospitality, arts, cultural, and historic organizations. They apply their expertise, experience, perspective, and proprietary framework to serve, support, connect. And they motivate travelers to explore, experience, be inspire

Because meaningful travel is part of a meaningful life.

And stories enrich the meaning.