UpcomingRenewal & Connection
The Spring Bloom Gathering
Date to be announcedBaltimore, MD
An intimate evening of honest conversation, curated introductions, and seasonal hospitality designed for women stepping into a new chapter.
A Women’s Initiative · Maryland
Where strong women gather, grow, and rise together.
Tusk & Tulip is a women’s initiative created for meaningful connection, honest conversation, and personal and professional growth. Through thoughtfully designed gatherings, we bring women into rooms where relationships matter, stories have weight, and community continues long after the event ends.
What is Tusk & Tulip?
A different kind of women’s gathering.
Tusk & Tulip was created for women who want more than surface-level networking. It is for women who believe the right room can change your perspective, your confidence, your relationships, and sometimes your next chapter. A place for connection without performance, ambition without pretense, and growth without having to explain why it matters.
Connection
Real relationships, not quick exchanges. Conversations that continue long after the room clears.
Courage
Honest conversations that help women name what they want and move forward with clarity.
Growth
Shared experiences that strengthen personal direction and professional purpose, season by season.
Why Tusk & Tulip?
The strength of the tusk. The beauty of the tulip.
The tusk represents strength, wisdom, protection, and the deep memory of women who have carried families, businesses, and communities forward. The tulip represents renewal, individuality, beauty, and growth. Together, they tell the story of women who are both grounded and growing — strong and graceful, protective and open, powerful and deeply human.
The Tusk
Strength, wisdom, protection.
- Loyalty and resilience
- Memory and wisdom
- Quiet authority
- Protective leadership
The Tulip
Growth, renewal, individuality.
- Beauty and presence
- Emergence and becoming
- Seasons of transformation
- Open, generous bloom
Gatherings with intention
Rooms designed for presence.
From intimate fireside conversations to seasonal community receptions, each gathering is built around a meaningful theme and a carefully curated atmosphere.
Signature SeriesCourage in Leadership
Fireside: Founders & Leaders
Date to be announcedColumbia, MD
A small-format conversation with women founders and executives on the moments that shaped their leadership — and what they wish they had known.
UpcomingBelonging
Tusk & Tulip Community Reception
QuarterlyBaltimore–Washington Region
Our quarterly welcome reception — for new members, returning friends, and women ready to be in a different kind of room.
The Experience
Not just another networking event.
The difference is felt the moment you walk in. Every detail is there to help women arrive, connect, speak, listen, and leave with something meaningful.
Typical networking
- Surface-level introductions
- Business cards and quick pitches
- Forgotten follow-ups
- Transaction-first conversation
Tusk & Tulip
- Thoughtful rooms and warm hospitality
- Human-centered conversation, guided with care
- Professional and personal depth in the same room
- Relationships that continue after the event
Who this is for
For women who care about who they are becoming.
Entrepreneurs and founders
Executives and business leaders
Nonprofit and community leaders
Creatives and communicators
Women in transition
Women seeking meaningful professional relationships
Created by
Stacey Smith
Founder & CEO, Smith Consulting & Events
Tusk & Tulip was created by Stacey Smith, Founder & CEO of Smith Consulting & Events, a Maryland-based consulting and event planning firm. Stacey has spent years building rooms where people connect, collaborate, and move ideas forward.
Through Tusk & Tulip, she brings that experience into a women-centered initiative designed around purpose, relationship, courage, and growth.
Meet StaceyPartner with us
Partner with a room full of women who move things forward.
Sponsorship with Tusk & Tulip is not just logo placement. It is an opportunity to align with meaningful conversations, trusted relationships, and women who influence businesses, nonprofits, communities, and families.
Brand visibility
Presence in trusted rooms with the women you most want to reach.
Community goodwill
Tangible support for a meaningful women’s initiative.
Relationship-building
Direct connection with founders, executives, and community leaders.
Be in the room
Join the Tusk & Tulip community.
Receive thoughtful invitations to upcoming gatherings, reflections from the founder, and updates from a community built on connection, courage, and growth.