The document outlines 10 principles of event strategy provided by Kerrie Sheldon, EVP of Event Strategy at Opus Agency. The principles are to revisit goals, know your audience, listen to attendees, create a unique experience, maximize every touchpoint, integrate events, engage with content, measure for value not vanity, embrace data for insight and accountability, and start planning early. The document also provides biographies of Kerrie Sheldon and Opus Agency.
4. LISTEN TO ATTENDEES.
Give your attendees a voice and listen
to what they have to say. One-way
conversation is not effective communication.
5. CREATE A UNIQUE EXPERIENCE.
Your event should be true to your brand
and echo your unique brand attributes.
Your brand is not just your logo.
6. MAXIMIZE EVERY TOUCH POINT.
Immerse and engage your attendees.
Inspire participation and creation. Do with
events what can only be done with events.
12. KERRIE SHELDON
IN HER ROLE AS EVP of Event Strategy, Design & Production for Opus, Kerrie deftly
blends strategy and creative in order to bring her clientsâ visions to lifeâwhile
simultaneously meeting defined, measurable goals. A seasoned pro at achieving success
with projects of all sizes, Kerrieâs ability to bring a creative vision together with the
technical production services necessary to create it is critical to helping Opus clients
extend their brands through keynotes, breakouts, and engagements of all kinds.
With more than 25 years of event management, production, and creative event design
experience, Kerrie joined Opus in 2010 after most recently running her own event
marketing and production company, Genesis Creative Group, for 12+ years. Previously,
she worked for Fortune 500 company Tandem Computers as Director of Global Events.
Kerrie lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her daughter Sarah, and enjoys the
Pacific beaches and mountains throughout the year.
OPUS AGENCY PROVIDES event marketing, management and production solutions to
Fortune 1000 companies. Since 1993, we have been a trusted adviser to a diverse group
of customers creating unique, high quality events. We design, plan and execute brand
experiences that accelerate results and enable customer success.
Our passion for customer success drives every aspect of our businessâour amazing
people, the values they share, and our best-practice methodology. We call it TeamCSâąâ
the Opus Customer Success Platform. We would love to show you how it works.