Reimagine Your Meeting with Furniture

1. Reimagine your
Meeting
with Furniture
PRESENTED BY LEIGH TIDWELL AND HOLLY POTTER-HARVEY OF AFR EVENT
FURNISHINGS
LTIDWELL@RENTFURNITURE.COM & HPOTTERHARVEY@RENTFURNITURE.COM
972-400-4233

2.  The way you design your meetings, directly impacts how you
inspire and engage guests. Guests are more involved and
have more of a memory association when they experience a
wow.
 We will learn how to create the best attendee experience
through furniture and set up
 Identify how to work furniture into your meetings and
various opportunities
 How furniture impacts your ROI – Make it functional decor
Why furniture?

3. General Sessions

4. General Sessions

5. General Sessions

6.  Adult learners don’t function well in “classroom” settings and lose
attention when uncomfortable, bad audio and hindered lines of
vision.
 Create a VIP section example: Incentivizing sales people
 Create levels and tiers to not block site-lines and diversify the
look
 Mixing up the product and arrangement can be a budget
friendly option
 Think of the demographics and overall goals of the meeting.
Keep the design brand oriented
 Rethink the layout – Does not have to be in rows
General Sessions

7. Re-Charge Lounges

8.  Do not lose attendees because their devices need to be re-
charged or they need to step out
 Create a separate lounge space in a breakout room
 Make it comfortable and allow them to re-charge their
devices as well as mentally
 Results are a higher attendance and less stressed attendees
 Must include pieces with outlets and tables for working
 Can brand with #hashtags for multi-engagement
Re-Charge Lounges

9. Educational Pods

10.  More engaging and interactive educational experience
 Face-to-face communication
 Peer-to-Peer learning
 Re-arrange the furniture during multi-day meetings for various set
ups = cost savings
 Great for Idea sharing, education and training
 Allows for networking and relationship building
 Shared sense of purpose & connectivity
 Millennials need to foster interaction as they are not linear thinkers
Educational Pods

11.  Meeting in Person
 You are 93% more likely to close the deal
 Grow your bottom line by 86%
 Increase your network by 90%
 80% of people increase their professional development
 In Person Meetings Improve
 Engagement by 94%
 Collaboration by 91%
 Development by 88%
 Productivity by 84%
Meeting Statistics by Meetings Mean Business

12.  You are twice as likely to convert prospects into customers
 Meetings create a higher customer retention
 Meetings have been shown to increase & deliver profits
 Meetings are more effective in closing new deals
 www.meetingsmeanbusiness.com (toolkit)
Meeting Statistics by Meetings Mean Business

13. Design Trends

14. Event Design Trends: Naturals with
Metals

15. Event Design Trends: Mixing Genres
and Styles

16. Event Design Trends: Mid-Century
Modern

17. Event Design Trends: Visible Textures
& Residential Eclectic

18. Event Design Trends: Visible Texture &
Residential Eclectic

19. Questions?
PRESENTED BY LEIGH TIDWELL AND LUCI MANCO OF AFR EVENT FURNISHINGS
LTIDWELL@RENTFURNITURE.COM & HPOTTERHARVEY@RENTFURNITURE.COM
407-608-5141