Fred Beans - General Manager Meeting

The Challenge: The Fred Beans Family of Dealerships has been proudly serving Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey for many years. As the name suggests, they are a family-owned and -operated business dedicated to supplying their communities with high-quality automobiles, expert automotive service, and friendly customer assistance. But with more than 19 brands, 21 dealerships and close to 1,500 employees spread over two states, delivering a consistent cultural message, person to person, has blossomed into a challenge - a challenge to keep the “family” feel as the family grows.

The McHenry Creative Solution: Quarterly the General Managers from the 21 dealerships, plus the numerous ancillary operations meet. Here is where the family culture message is initiated. McHenry Creative’s event and production teams combined to create a “meeting in a box.” A formula where the GMs can deliver the educational, motivational and company culture messages consistently in each location. In the “box” is a script, a slide presentation and a Vlog. The Video blog reinforces the family feel while informing the audiences on company growth and changes.

THE RESULTS: The quarterly “meeting in a box” solves the travel issues for the leadership team and ensures the critical messages are delivered consistently to all locations.

Ashfield Meeting and Event – Acadia Pharmaceuticals

The Challenge: Hallucinations are not dreams or nightmares. They happen when a person is awake and can happen at any time of day or night. Hallucinations can be bothersome and frightening - around the globe Parkinson’s Disease Psychosis (PDP) may affect 1 in 5 Parkinson’s patients. These symptoms can be incredibly disturbing for both patients and caregivers. Acadia Pharmaceuticals developed Nuplazid to address PDP. Acadia turned to Ashfield Meetings and Events, who in turn engaged McHenry Creative, to design and execute two critically important events – a National Training Meeting and a National Launch Meeting.

The McHenry Creative Solution: Ashfield Meetings & Events is a full-service global event delivery company specializing in serving the healthcare sector. Along with McHenry Creative Services the dedicated team acted as one resource to provide highly effective Event management. From initial brief, through to on-site delivery and final reconciliation. The National Training Meeting (NTM) held in San Diego, CA featured, among many day to day management assignments; set design and full AV support. The National Launch Meeting (NLM) also held in San Diego, CA was highlighted by set design, full AV, opening 3D animation and company timeline video segment. Both weeklong events were directed by McHenry Creative’s Tom McHenry. “The 90’x15’ projection surface, projection mapping and picture in picture design truly made the NLM meeting a memorable event” explained Tom McHenry. He continued; “Working with the Ashfield team was a pleasure. Their professionalism and talent is evident in everything they touch from design to execution.”

THE RESULTS: Acadia Pharmaceuticals launched a company and their first drug in one month – an unprecedented timeline. Ashfield with McHenry Creative took on the challenge, exceed every metric and delivered two complex conferences that will always be cherished in the history of Acadia.

Ashfield Meetings and Events – “Medidata”

The Challenge: The Medidata Symposium: Innovation that Changes Lives, was held at the magnificent Arizona Biltmore, in Phoenix. Medidata Symposium offers participants unparalleled opportunities to network with peers and Medidata executives, gain valuable, useful knowledge through provocative keynote presentations, interactive role-based sessions and learn and share best practices for the effective design, planning, execution, management and reporting of clinical studies using the Medidata Clinical Cloud™. Medidata turned to Ashfield Meetings and Events, who in turn engaged McHenry Creative, to support in the execution of this significant Symposium.

The McHenry Creative Solution: Ashfield Meetings & Events based in the UK is a full-service event delivery company concentrating in serving the healthcare segment. Along with McHenry Creative Services the dedicated team acted as one resource to provide highly effective event management and execution. The three-day Symposium that featured 6 independent projection surfaces was directed by McHenry Creative’s Tom McHenry in close collaboration with the Ashfield team.

THE RESULTS: The fusion of Ashfield Meeting and Events and McHenry Creative resulted in an engaging, collaborative, innovative symposium for Medidata.

TD Bank America’s Most Convenient Bank

The Challenge: Maine to Florida delineates the TD Bank footprint in The United States. WOW! Town Hall is an annual event to bolster the WOW! Culture and motivate the top management to understand and contribute to the growth of TD Bank America’s Most Convenient Bank. Our challenge from TD Bank was to create a memorable experience in every location at every event for all TD Bank employees as we launched the “One Bank” philosophy.

The McHenry Creative Solution: McHenry Creative’s event team collaborated with TD Bank’s communication group to created WOW! Townhall – an 11 events – 10 cities tour. An informal, informative experience between Senior Management and the Regiona Management: an experience the attendees would talk about with their co-workers. We traveled over 5,000 miles from Portland, Maine to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and shared the concept of One Bank with an audience of just over 6000 employees.

Everything at the meeting reinforced the message. Our set design focused on the TD Bank shield. The multiple-tiered shields represented the many components, the various departments within TD Bank, each blending to create a unified environment. McHenry Creative traveled the TD footprint prior to the tour to gather video snippets from employees to then craft motivational modules which were used to open and conclude each meeting reinforcing “One Bank” from Maine to Florida.

THE RESULTS: The end result? Employees from the entire company are informed and enthused about the future of now One Bank - The Better Bank - 'TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank'.