Andrea Dasent is the Founder of A Jay Event Productions Inc., a certified M/WBE company specializing in multi-day corporate retreats, offsites, and incentive trips. With over a decade of experience in the event industry and a background in corporate finance, she understands how performance-driven organizations measure success, and how shared experiences shape connection, motivation, and team dynamics. This gives her a unique perspective on the intersection of performance and people.

Through her work designing experiences for corporate teams, Andrea has developed a deep understanding of the gap between what leaders aim to create and what employees actually experience. She has observed that many organizations attempt to build connection and engagement through offsites and initiatives, when those efforts are most effective as an extension of the everyday work environment, not a substitute for it.

Andrea is passionate about helping leaders better understand the people they lead. Her work encourages leaders to take ownership of how their behaviors shape team dynamics, performance, and the overall work environment. This passion for developing leaders has also led her to work with young, emerging leaders at the high school level, where she uses event planning as a vehicle to teach effective communication, ownership, and decision-making from an early stage.

Andrea’s approach connects leadership behavior directly to business outcomes, offering practical insights that help organizations strengthen engagement, improve retention, and create environments where people can perform at a higher level.