Corporate Events
BHT brings 15+ years of conference and executive-program leadership to organizations that need experienced event direction—through ongoing fractional leadership or focused strategy and consulting.
You experience the event. We manage everything else.
Ways to EngageFractional Event Leadership
Ongoing senior event expertise, embedded at the level your organization needs. Each tier is defined by time commitment and ownership, so you know exactly what you’re getting.
Up to 15 hours per month · remote
Up to 25 hours per month
Every engagement is tailored. Investment details are shared during your discovery call.
Event Strategy + Consulting
Three-hour working session
Review of an existing plan or program
Every engagement is tailored. Investment details are shared during your discovery call.
Team Retreats & Culture Experiences
A great retreat isn’t measured by the venue. It’s measured by how your team works together the Monday after. BHT designs every retreat around what your leadership wants to change: trust, communication, alignment or simply a team that genuinely knows one another.
Each engagement starts with leadership discovery and ends with a debrief and action plan, so the momentum carries back into the office.
Design only · your team runs logistics
1–2 day retreats
Year-round · or within a fractional tier
Every engagement is tailored. Investment details are shared during your discovery call.
Whether BHT is embedded in your team or advising from the outside, the work spans every part of a program.
Objectives, audience, format and program architecture defined before spend begins.
Sourcing, site comparison, and negotiation of room blocks, attrition, F&B minimums and cancellation terms.
A line-item budget maintained from first estimate through final invoice, with variance visible at every stage.
Registration build, ticket types, attendee data, confirmations, reporting and onsite check-in.
Arrival, wayfinding, communications, schedules and the small touches that shape how the program feels.
Prospectus support, package fulfillment, floor plans, booth logistics and exhibitor communications.
Contracts, travel, itineraries, AV requirements, greenroom needs and dedicated onsite handling.
Menu design, tastings, dietary accommodation, service timing and banquet-order review.
Staging, lighting, sound, screens, hybrid and recording needs coordinated with your production partners.
A minute-by-minute document aligning speakers, production, catering and staff on one timeline.
Load-in through strike: vendor direction, staff briefings, rehearsals and live decision-making.
Invoice auditing against contracts, final budget close-out, and a documented debrief.
The same five phases apply whether the program is a one-day executive meeting or a multi-day conference with an exhibit hall.
We start with your objective, audience, budget range and constraints, then define what success looks like before anything is booked.
Concept, program flow, venue options, room layouts and guest experience come together into a plan you can approve with confidence.
Contracts, vendors, budgets, registration, production specs and the Run of Show are assembled into one working document set.
Onsite management, load-in, rehearsals, staff and vendor direction, and real-time problem solving for the length of the program.
Load-out, final billing review, budget reconciliation and a post-event debrief that carries forward into the next program.
Depth of Experience
$20M+ in events planned, 10,000+ attendees, 400+ vendors and hundreds of speakers.
These figures reflect Beth Thompson’s professional experience leading corporate events in prior roles.
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