Have You Heard About These Lunches?
INTRODUCING A NEW COLUMN
Have You Heard About These Lunches?
With Gloria Fonseca
Business has its unwritten rules. So do introductions, invitations, and knowing when to speak—or when to keep something to yourself, or even when to pay or not pay the bill at a 3-person lunch.
THERE ARE RULES, PEOPLE! THERE ARE RULES!!!
Welcome to Inside the Room, my monthly look at business, etiquette, access, and the relationships that open doors. I’ll share what I’ve learned from building businesses, publishing magazines, and navigating the moments no one gives you a handbook for.
Because getting into the room is one thing. Being invited back is another.
This one is interesting:
Have You Heard About These Lunches?
The most interesting conversations may be the ones you need an invitation to hear.
Have you heard about these lunches?
Not the networking luncheons with name tags, speeches, and a step-and-repeat. I mean the private ones—the gatherings that never appear on a public calendar, where the guest list is carefully curated and the conversation stays in the room.
Here in Northern Virginia, a private wealth firm brings together a select circle of private clients, multigenerational families, business leaders, and investors for an invitation-only luncheon.
Some tables you reserve. Others, you’re invited to.
And I became fascinated by one question: What do people talk about after success has already been achieved?
Maybe we simply have to be in the room to find out.
And if you’re wondering how one finds their way onto that guest list…
Send me an email… ceo@gloriafonseca.com
In the end, it’s all about who you know, right?
Let’s just say—I may know someone.
