Event Consulting Services
Who Are Our Event Consulting Services For?
Marinda’s consulting services welcomes many types of clients including large and small nonprofits and organizations, businesses, and high profile individual clients. Are you willing to see new ways to turn your events into greater successes? With vision, imagination and organization, Marinda can assist you to improve the planning and design of your events, as well as upleveling the organizational processes to create not just results but memories.
Are You Facing Challenges With Planning Your Next Corporate Event?
Planning an event for your organization can be daunting, leaving you with questions and uncertainties that make the process seem overwhelming and stressful.
Are you wondering where to start or how to allocate your budget effectively? Are you concerned about finding the time to organize and plan everything alongside your regular job duties? Are you anxious about finding the right vendors to bring your vision to life? And, of course, there’s always the worry about what you might not know—those unforeseen challenges or issues that may arise.
Marinda Freeman understands these challenges and is here to guide you through every step of the event planning process for your events. She will help you navigate the complexities of corporate event planning with ease and confidence.
Event Consulting Services
After decades of working with clients creating successful events, Marinda is ready to reveal the professional practices and principles that work every time. Marinda’s Event Consulting services are designed to address your specific concerns and fulfill a variety of needs:
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Strategic Event Consulting for Organizations & Businesses
Professional guidance throughout the planning and execution of your event
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Corporate Event Department Workshop
A day-long training to uplevel professional practices, strategies and coordination
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VIP One-on-One Coaching for individual Event Owners
Elevate your business with crucial planning tools and tactics with transformative sessions
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Engaging & Expert Speaker for Keynotes & other Presentations
Entertaining stories that exemplify event design principles that all can use
We start by diving into the heart of what makes an event truly special, beginning with your vision and purpose.
We delve deep, asking essential questions:
- How do you want your guests to feel from the moment they walk in?
- What conversations do you want to spark as the event unfolds?
- What stories do you hope they'll share once they depart?
Marinda is here to bring your vision to life and to make the planning process as enjoyable as the event itself.
At the heart of Marinda’s event planning philosophy is her dedication to begin every event with a focus on the purpose and creating spaces where personal and professional connections thrive.
Drawing on a wealth of experience and dedication to her craft, Marinda’s customized event consulting services gives you the edge to uplevel your design, professional practices, and systems, as well as improve or redesign your events.
When you work with Marinda,
You’ll discover why thorough pre-planning is required for any successful event. There are different options for working together. Let’s start by meeting to explore what you most need.
Complimentary Discovery Meeting
Let’s take the time for us to get to know each other, to learn about you, and to review the big picture of your event. Event Design looks holistically at your event, so first Marinda wants to understand the purpose and intention you have for your event, the history, what worked, what didn’t, and what you want to change, etc. Marinda will ask many questions and provide some key suggestions and ways to think about your event during our conversation. After this meeting, we can decide what next steps are most appropriate to take to work together.
“To be a designer is to be an agent of change.”
Daniel Pink, A Whole New Mind
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Strategic Event Design Consulting:
Crafting Your Event with Expert Guidance
Marinda will work with you and your team to turn your event vision into reality, guiding you from initial concept to flawless execution. She will direct you through each stage of the planning process with attention to detail, from conceptualizing the purpose and atmosphere of your event, to executing the nuts and bolts of on-site management and conducting event follow through. This consulting service will provide you with proven helpful advice, strategic insights, and creative solutions directly aligned with your event’s unique challenges. Marinda will be your guide throughout the project to its successful conclusion.
By taking each step with you, Marinda will ensure you are prepared for a positive outcome. She will emphasize professional standards and practices and reveal strategies for ease of coordination with all contacts – from attendees and speakers to vendors and sponsors – while building greater connection.
This program gives you the skills, tools, processes and materials to repeat these procedures for future years. Our intention is to have everyone coordinating action easily and communicating effectively – which is imperative for producing successful events.
The program provides a framework for producing events in four primary areas:
The benefits of this proven process include greater ease for your team, more room for creativity, more effective coordination and a higher level of predictability.
Assessment & Preparation
- Conduct overall assessment of your current event; what worked, what didn’t
- Understand the key components of your event
- Clarify the purpose and intention for your future event
- Define the atmosphere desired
Design & Planning
- Assess the venue and the logistics required for the space
- Design the best arrangements and flow of the space and the overall event timing
- Customize the plan including roles and responsibilities, timing, deadlines, etc.
Learning and Using Proven Tools, Processes, Materials and Methodologies
- Apply useful tools, practices and principles required for every event
- Create a detailed Project Timeline
- Confirm all details to ensure all vendors, sponsors and staff are engages and committed
Implementation and Follow Through
- Regularly review plans and timelines to make sure all actions are tracking and on time
- Create a detailed Event Timeline for the event days
- Establish and mobilize the event team
- Visualize a successful outcome by learning how to Time Travel and “do the event before the event”
- Produce a post event assessment and provide improvement recommendations
Ready to take the next steps to uplevel your events while planning and executing them with more ease and order?
Let’s get started!
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Corporate Event Department Workshop:
Building Success from the Ground Up – Strategies for Unforgettable Events
Our Corporate Workshop is designed exclusively for Corporate Event Departments of mid to large-sized companies. Marinda understands that every successful event stands on a foundation of meticulous planning and a clear vision. This one-day workshop offers an immersive exploration into the core principles of event planning divided into three comprehensive sessions or modules.
This is an intensive, interactive workshop designed to prepare corporate event planners with the tools, techniques, and insights needed to elevate their events. With topics ranging from foundational planning principles and strategic organization to improving onsite management and problem-solving, attendees will gain a comprehensive understanding of how to create, execute, and refine unforgettable corporate events.
Through practical advice, hands-on learning, and expert guidance, participants will leave the workshop with tools and skills ready to transform their corporate events into memorable experiences that foster connection, community, and engagement among their guests.
This workshop for your whole department allows everyone to learn together,
Improve their coordination as a team so they can execute impeccable events based on the intention and purpose of each event.
Part One
- Assess what has worked, not worked, what to improve with your current events
- Discover the principles of event design
- Clarify the purpose of your event(s)
- Learn how to define and create the desired atmosphere of your event
Part Two
- Introduce the planning tools, systems and practices for effective order and organization
- Establish best planning practices required for better communication and coordination
- Explore an effective communication and planning tool
- Understand the structure and components of your event
- Learn to develop and use Project Timelines
Part Three
- Review all that’s required to produce a detailed Event Timeline
- Visualize a successful outcome: learn how to Time Travel and “do the event before the event”
- Create a calm and peaceful manner while planning and producing your events (yes, this is quite possible and actually required!)
- Optimize the team members actions for smooth and effective coordination
The training includes event planning and production methodologies, and provides a range of tools, processes, materials, documents, budgets, templates, communication protocols, and more. Greater ease and success for your team members are a guaranteed outcome.
Who is this workshop for?
The Corporate Event Department Workshop is tailored for professionals in the corporate space who play a role in creating, managing, or executing events that reflect the company's values and objectives.
Human Resources Personnel:
HR staff who arrange company events, team-building exercises, and corporate retreats.
Event Managers and Coordinators:
Those responsible for organizing and overseeing corporate events, conferences, and meetings.
Public Relations Officers:
PR professionals who need to ensure that corporate events align with the company's image and public messaging.
Sales and Business Development Teams:
Those who utilize events for networking, client acquisition, and business growth opportunities.
Marketing Professionals:
Marketing teams who design events as part of brand promotion and client engagement strategies.
Executive Assistants:
Assistants who manage the schedules and events for corporate executives and need to understand the nuances of event planning.
Corporate Communications Specialists:
Individuals who handle internal and external communication and are involved in event messaging and execution.
Ready to make your corporate events into unforgettable experiences?
Schedule a Discovery Meeting with Marinda
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Individual Event Mastery Sessions:
Craft Unforgettable Events with Exclusive VIP Training
Individual Event Planners and Executive Assistants: Immerse yourself in transformative VIP sessions designed for the ambitious event designer who aspires to not only succeed in the event planning industry, but also to up-level your professional practices. You will learn the foundation and principles required to be a successful event planner.
This exclusive one-on-one experience is tailored and customized to your specific event management experience. Marinda will cover everything from foundational event design and planning principles to advanced strategies tailored to your unique learning needs.
Time to learn more to elevate your game and the events you plan and produce?
Let’s get started!
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Speaker Opportunities
Marinda is an expert speaker and has had experience speaking to many different groups from business organizations, nonprofit leaders to Rotary chapters. She has been interviewed by the San Francisco CBS News and has been a popular interview subject on a number of podcasts.
As a published author, Marinda has given talks to local libraries and other groups, virtually in and in person. She provides engaging and humorous stories that exemplify the principles for every event and gives simple guidance that you can use right away. She will also share exercises and handouts that help you understand visually how an event is designed. Her talk will surprise and delight you!
Complimentary Discovery Meeting
Let’s chat about booking Marinda to speak to your organization!
