Portland Kickoff

Overview

Every year, the Portland office launched the new year with a themed kickoff meeting and award ceremony in Q1. In the spirit of the Centennial, the 2017  theme was a Speakeasy theme, complete with clued invitations for the location, a password and a bouncer, and, of course, themed cocktails. The Speakeasy was named Barnie & Clyde’s, in honor of Bernard Wakefield and Clyde Cushman (founders of the company). Everyone donned their best 20s attire, and the best dressed couple was awarded. The location was the Treasury Ballroom, located underneath a bank and complete with an old bank vault. The meeting was truly a toast to the past as well as one to the present.

As far as materials, we produced a series of three emails that revealed the theme and teased the location of the meeting. On the day-off, we desk-dropped custom-wrapped chocolate bars on everyone’s desk; the inside of the wrapper revealed the location. A presentation template was developed in-line with the theme and each award winner had his/her photo dropped into an old newspaper headline. Signage was created for the event, including on-theme bar signs and wine labels.