2026 Speakers

Margaret Brower is a nationally recognized catering sales and marketing strategist, leadership coach, and the CEO and Founder of Rainmaker Sales & Marketing Group. She specializes in helping catering companies and event venues build the sales infrastructure, leadership practices, and client experiences that drive sustainable revenue growth.

Margaret works alongside owners, executives, Directors of Sales, salespeople, and marketing teams at some of the country’s leading catering and hospitality companies. Her specialty is understanding the intersection of sales strategy, human behavior, and hospitality. Margaret studies how people make buying decisions and translates those insights into practical ways hospitality teams can sell. Her work explores buyer psychology, client behavior, relationship and business development, consultative selling, sales leadership, and the human touchpoints that make a company easier to trust, remember, and choose.

Margaret serves on the Board of Directors of the International Caterers Association (ICA) and as Education Chair for ASCEND, where she helps shape education and professional development for the catering and events community. She is a TEDx speaker and writer of an international hospitality community newsletter. She returns to the Leading Caterers of America Executive Summit as Moderator of the Sales Track, facilitating conversations among some of the industry's most accomplished leaders about the future of catering sales, leadership, and growth.

At the center of Margaret's work is a belief that extraordinary sales performance is deeply human. She helps companies create clarity around the numbers, confidence in their people, and intentionality around how clients experience their brand from the very first interaction.

And for anyone who likes to know exactly who they’re dealing with, Margaret is an ENFJ, a Leo, a Long Islander, Enneagram 2, Human Design Projector, a Rainmaker on the Culture Index, and a Deep Autumn in the seasonal color analysis palette. Make of that what you will.

Presenting:

• From Inspiration to Execution: How Sales and Culinary Turn Big Client Ideas into Profitable Events
• Meet Your Moderators! A Quickfire Introduction
• Modern Proposals: Building for the Future and What Clients Want to See
• Sales & Ops F#!king Hate Each Other: The Real-Life Solutions to Selling It, Producing It, and Pulling It Off to Remove that Narrative
• Steal This Idea!
• The Sales Coaching Rhythm
• Visible to Valuable: How Digital Presence Drives Sales