Samantha Barrett-Wallis

Samantha Barrett-Wallis is a Senior Consultant at Goldspring Consulting with expertise in Travel Management and Strategic Meetings Management.

Samantha joined Goldspring in 2023 and champions program direction through policy, process, and a roster of strong vendors. She leverages best practices in data analysis, procurement, vendor management, change management and communication.

Samantha is a travel industry veteran with 20+ years’ experience. She has held roles in operations and sales for an active leisure tour operator, third party corporate event planners and procurement organizations for multinational financial & insurance institutions.

Samantha’s SMM successes include:

• Designing and implementing a shortened purchasing process for meetings & events to manage $40M in spend, provide oversight, and mitigate risk for category purchases.

• Implementing Meeting & Event technology to manage spend, maturing the program to reach 80% compliance across North America.

Samantha’s Travel Management successes include:

• Growing a global travel management program to 8 countries from 2, consolidating transient and group travel spend and reducing TMC costs by $2.1M.

• Executing a first-of-its-kind TMC Service Level Agreement to maintain high service standards and program results.

• Increasing compliance to approved travel booking channels by 33 percentage points to consistently maintain above 90% adoption since Q1 2016.

• Driving best in class results for online booking tool adoption (80%+), corporate card usage (90%+) and preferred airline usage (90%+).

• Implementing ReShopping technology to reduce $2M in hotel cost over 5 years.

• Reducing car rental costs by 5%, airline costs by $2M and hotel costs by $640K through the increased negotiating power of a well managed travel program.