Leading the Future of Live Events
Behind the Stage equips event professionals with the systems, thinking and leadership skills to plan, communicate and deliver complex events with calm control.
Built from decades of real world event leadership.
Start with our flagship course
In one weekend, you’ll learn how great event leaders use scheduling to create clarity, control risk, and lead teams under pressure.
You’ll build a live, operational schedule for your own event. Not a template, a tool you can lead from.
Tools to support your everyday event work
Free Resources
A short, 15 minute online call to ask a focused question or explore whether our training is the right fit for you.
Event Operations & Risk Review GPT
This custom GPT stress tests your event documents the way an experienced ops lead would before you hit site, so you catch gaps, clashes, and missing proof while it’s still cheap and calm to sort out.
free account required
Practical Tools
Built from the same approach used on major events and complex live sites, this template gives you a clear view of who’s working, when, and at what cost.
A clear, collaborative budgeting framework for managing event costs, contingencies, and approvals without unnecessary complexity.
Built to teach the systems and thinking that
hold when events get complex.
Built to teach the systems and thinking that hold when events get complex.
Iain Morrison
Founder, Behind the Stage
Co-Founder, The Imagination Collaborative
35+ years delivering complex events
Iain Morrison
Founder, Behind the Stage
Co-Founder, The Imagination Collaborative
35+ years delivering complex events
Iain Morrison
Founder, Behind the Stage
Co-Founder, The Imagination Collaborative
35+ years delivering complex events
Iain Morrison
Founder, Behind the Stage
Co-Founder, The Imagination Collaborative
35+ years delivering complex events
Behind the Stage is a professional learning platform built for people who run real events, not just plan them on paper.
It helps event producers replace firefighting with calm, systems driven leadership by translating over three decades of real world experience into clear planning, communication, and leadership practices that work on live event sites.
Behind the Stage is shaped by the delivery environments, constraints and pressures Iain has worked within throughout his career.
Behind the Stage is a professional learning platform built for people who run real events, not just plan them on paper.
It helps event producers replace firefighting with calm, systems driven leadership by translating over three decades of real world experience into clear planning, communication, and leadership practices that work on live event sites.
Behind the Stage is shaped by the delivery environments, constraints and pressures Iain has worked within throughout his career.
Behind the Stage is a professional learning platform built for people who run real events, not just plan them on paper.
It helps event producers replace firefighting with calm, systems driven leadership by translating over three decades of real world experience into clear planning, communication, and leadership practices that work on live event sites.
Behind the Stage is shaped by the delivery environments, constraints and pressures Iain has worked within throughout his career.
Career Highlights
• 35+ years across festivals, stadium tours, public celebrations, and complex outdoor builds
• Built and ran Humm (2001–2020), then sold and exited after delivering major events nationwide
• Led high risk, high visibility delivery, including crowd heavy concerts and major civic moments
• Known for calm control: intent clear, ownership clear, triggers clear, no hero culture
• An advocate for proper show stop protocols and rehearsed decision making, not vibes and hope
• Co-founded The Imagination Collaborative to help teams see the event before they build it
Iain Morrison: Trusted across government, touring, venues, and major live events
Iain’s depth of knowledge in the events industry is what really makes this stand out for me. It has equipped me with practical, relevant, real world learnings that support me to lead events with intent, especially when it matters most.
Iain’s extensive event experience has given so much credibility and I find his knowledge extremely valuable.
This is a one hour, one on one session with Iain where you set the agenda.
Use it to work through a real event challenge, sense check a plan, talk leadership or just get unstuck.
Tris brings years of experience supporting people and teams through the real stuff: role changes, workplace challenges, confidence shifts, navigating burnout, and finding balance between work and life.
for clarity, structure
and calm control: straight to your inbox
for clarity, structure
and calm control: straight to your inbox
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