Your Menu for WOW Meetings & EventsSeeking an innovative sales meeting, group event, open house, trade show experience or conference? One your attendees will talk about for years? Designed FOR them, about them? With fun and learning intertwined?
The promotional product industry's ONLY veteran meeting planning firm is available to help you wow your guests at every stage of your event, from planning, to execution, even speaking for and facilitating your group. Take the pressure and time crunch off your sales, marketing or executive team, and let a seasoned event planner who knows the industry transform it into a spectacular experience. Here's just a sampling of what we can do for your team: 
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Experienced in these Types of Events
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Examples of My Events
Sales Meetings at a Winery
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Photo booth fun at Awards Night
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60's Groove Theme Night
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5 year PPAI Women's Leadership Conference Committee + Opening Speaker
2-Day VIP Event to Welcome Facilis Group involving all 350 Team Members
Team & Trust Building Exercises
Employee Motivation Events & Rallies, Customer Service Week Experience
PR Events & News Media Coverage
Even a session on Networking in the pool, wrangling duck prospects!
Master Chef Team Cooking Challenge - voted the funnest activity of the sales meeting!
Custom-made mermaid crowns created to welcome an all-female sales team to an Under-the-Sea Sales Splash Academy
One of the hundreds of seminars I have presented. Choose from one of my core topics or I can custom design one for your group.
Celebrity events like this 1000 person Open House with Arnold Palmer. Smooth as silk!
A VIP think tank event sharing best practices
Holiday Spirit Week, where every day was an event, like this Holiday Bake-Off
Engaging and memorable award nights
Trade Show Experiences (It's not just the BOOTH!)
What people say about my work
Maribeth Sandford, CEO of BagMakers, Inc.
"Thank you Mary Ellen for an eye-opening, fun, energetic, soul searching, informative, educational, and I could keep on going, sales retreat. Just out of this world. I am speechless."
"Thank you Mary Ellen for an eye-opening, fun, energetic, soul searching, informative, educational, and I could keep on going, sales retreat. Just out of this world. I am speechless."
Julie Heller, Marketing Director at Heritage Sportswear
"If you want a WOW event that will be remembered and talked about for years thereafter, hire Mary Ellen Sokalski. We worked together for over 16 years and I was (and still am) amazed at her creativity. We would brainstorm and the ideas and details that would come out of her were unbelievable. I remember thinking some of them were just crazy, and Mary Ellen would say, "Just trust me." And I always did and we did many award-winning show-stopping events, from sales meetings, fun and informative employee events, open houses (which we called "Extravaganzas" because they were always way more than just an open house,) trade shows (themes like a family reunion with a horseshoe pit for customers, interactive displays using water pistols to show customers the products were water-resistant) to a Moroccan Bazaar with pet-able snake puppets made of our new silky soft fabrics... to name just a few. When you bring Mary Ellen aboard, you are bringing on a creative genius! Make sure to ask her about my wedding dress! I'm serious... ask her!"
"If you want a WOW event that will be remembered and talked about for years thereafter, hire Mary Ellen Sokalski. We worked together for over 16 years and I was (and still am) amazed at her creativity. We would brainstorm and the ideas and details that would come out of her were unbelievable. I remember thinking some of them were just crazy, and Mary Ellen would say, "Just trust me." And I always did and we did many award-winning show-stopping events, from sales meetings, fun and informative employee events, open houses (which we called "Extravaganzas" because they were always way more than just an open house,) trade shows (themes like a family reunion with a horseshoe pit for customers, interactive displays using water pistols to show customers the products were water-resistant) to a Moroccan Bazaar with pet-able snake puppets made of our new silky soft fabrics... to name just a few. When you bring Mary Ellen aboard, you are bringing on a creative genius! Make sure to ask her about my wedding dress! I'm serious... ask her!"
Bill Lynch, Marketing Director at Lynch Communications
"I had the pleasure of reporting to Mary Ellen for 9 years. In that time, Mary Ellen was responsible for managing more than 100 trade shows, conferences, awards banquets, product launches, cocktail hours, trainings, employee engagement and other corporate gatherings. She was one of the spearheads of the Counselor Awards banquet. She added creativity and pizzazz to every event while overseeing the smallest details to ensure each event was fun and memorable. Everyone loved her, from senior management to team members to clients and vendors. Additionally, Mary Ellen wrote speeches, created presentation material, employee motivation programs and developed unique traffic builders that worked beautifully with the theme of each event. She also skillfully managed staff and vendors to ensure success. Mary Ellen is a unique talent, inspiring to work with, and unmatched as a creative resource for any event."
"I had the pleasure of reporting to Mary Ellen for 9 years. In that time, Mary Ellen was responsible for managing more than 100 trade shows, conferences, awards banquets, product launches, cocktail hours, trainings, employee engagement and other corporate gatherings. She was one of the spearheads of the Counselor Awards banquet. She added creativity and pizzazz to every event while overseeing the smallest details to ensure each event was fun and memorable. Everyone loved her, from senior management to team members to clients and vendors. Additionally, Mary Ellen wrote speeches, created presentation material, employee motivation programs and developed unique traffic builders that worked beautifully with the theme of each event. She also skillfully managed staff and vendors to ensure success. Mary Ellen is a unique talent, inspiring to work with, and unmatched as a creative resource for any event."
