Joan Wells

CEO

Joan Wells is CEO and co-founder of Wellington. A Kansas City native, Joan founded Wellington more than 24 years ago with a vision for a meeting and event company that would provide true end-to-end solutions with clients as authentic partners. She has been involved with the planning and execution of hundreds of meetings for businesses and non-profit organizations of all sizes.

She and Jada Hill, with whom she co-founded Wellington, have consistently grown the business over the company’s history with an explosive level of growth, both in size and revenue, over the past few years. Under Joan and Jada’s guidance, Wellington has been recognized as one of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Top 10 Businesses of the Year.

“My entrepreneurial vision is to provide event and meeting production services that incorporate the best talents in concept development and skills planning. I believe in hiring associates who have a far-higher level of expertise, client relation skill and project management savvy than the industry average.”

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