Connor Stephens

Graduated Events Manager with a background in hospitality, typically seen as calm and collected in otherwise stressful situations. Always engaging with customer and staff requests to ensure that morale is maintained, and that the result is above expectations. Due to my background, I am highly flexible when it comes to skills relating to hospitality and meant whilst working in an unfamiliar leisure industry in passed years, that my skills were still practical in all areas and gave me a better experience of managing people in practice.

Typically, during the week, I can be found at local board game cafés playing Pokémon cards or board games with people. The tangible nature of these games I thoroughly enjoy, and it gives me a reason to be social.

Working in escape rooms in recent years has meant that I also play quite a few myself, I believe I’ve played around 15-20 by now all over the UK.

I enjoy all types of music really, but most of the time I’m listening to alternative rock and can be found at local rock nights in Nottingham from time to time.

Worked in numerous hospitality settings and also departments. Working in all areas of a hotel and restaurant whilst living down south, allowing me to develop many transferable skills that help me wherever I go. Then once moving up to Nottingham, I became a manager of an escape room company, which although may not have developed many practical skills for hospitality, did allow for me to develop a management style, which allowed me to create an environment that my staff and customers enjoyed, whilst developing the site from underperforming to one of the best in the company.

I have a BA in Events Management and Hospitality from the Edge Hotel School. The Edge hotel school is the only hotel school in the UK and prides itself on the uniqueness of its accelerated degree, to give students a foothold in the hospitality industry. The course did have it's theoretical parts, but you cant learn hospitality without actually doing it, so the course also had an experiential learning aspect where the students would be placed into an operating 4* hotel on the university campus and learn practical skills in all areas of the hotel (Reception, C&E, Restaurant & Kitchen).