with Chad Estis, then vice president of sales, for a new $1.3 billion the Dallas Cowboys. “He and I had a conversation that they were going to sell this new stadium, but had no idea how they were going to do it,” Turner said. “They really needed to get somebody, which led to a conversation left to go on the construction of the new stadium. I set up the stadi- um operations department and event operations, and we got things going. I have been here 10 years now.”
NOW THAT HE’S HERE
hundreds more young, screeching voices of kids having a time as carefree as an unleashed dog romping through a park. “You know, what I have learned and what I get to do in the venue
and event industry is really something very special that ties directly into the things I think I am good at, interested in, and once again helps me get out of bed every day and try to make today better than it was yesterday,” Turner said. “It’s the hearts and minds thing. “When you work at a place that is a destination for others, such as Disney, we share this common bond because, No. 1, we’re in the Those are tangible things that people purchase, but the organizing thing around us is an intangible. It’s watching something happen. It’s having that emotional connection to a sports contest, to a team, to a performer, whatever. These people have saved their money. They’ve made plans. They are looking forward to it and emotionally invested. We get to be the caretakers of that. We get to be the ones
IAVM volunteers has likewise grown. Just as many in the industry know him as a “stadiums” guy, most think of Turner within IAVM given Turner’s passion for protecting his guests as well as the assets of his venue. Turner came to know IAVM, while working in Portland, when
- er a member of IAVM and, second, to attend Venue Management School (VMS) to learn more about the industry.
“That introduction of, oh wow, this is an industry, these people
do this, there’s a growing body of knowledge around this as a pro- fession, really struck me as a new IAVM member,” he said. “This is member at VMS and second vice chair. It goes back to my seeing this as a growing profession and having an opportunity to have an impact on that.” in San Diego from March 10-14, Turner will once again welcome attendees that come from a number of safety and security disciplines. Just as Turner sought out IAVM membership and the opportunity to attend VMS while in Portland, upon arriving in Dallas, one of his “The AVSS program was originally envisioned to provide a base- line and level of competency and training for people around safety was this thought that, hey, we’ve got to get our act together. We’ve got to train people and develop a body of knowledge around the unique application of safety and security responsibilities to venues and events. “The program we have today is very similar to the one we had back then. We’re continuing to identify areas of competency and to in the curriculum. The mission of AVSS is to take people responsi- ble for safety and security at venues and events and to provide them with a two-year educational foundation that will help them be able to better manage their operations, to train their people, to develop safety and security plans, and to make sure their operating protocols are meeting the requirements of their venue and their marketplace.” Turner said that the safety and security aspects of the public as-
sembly venue industry are unique because for years “we tended to
everybody started doing their own thing. They were doing it in isola- tion. There was a lot of duplication and a lot of people going down dead ends or just not lot of people are doing it and I have no idea how they are coordinat- ing it but if they truly coordinate it together, they are probably going The above really states why Turner took a greater interest in
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