You know the difference. You have been in the room that fell flat and in the room people were still talking about six months later. The difference is design.
Strategic experience design that starts with your intent and shapes every element of the room.
Complete production ownership so your only job on the day is to walk in and lead.
Executive event production that reflects the calibre of your organization and the leaders in it.
A strategic debrief after every engagement so your event becomes a compounding asset, not a one-time production.
Event Specialists has designed and produced leadership forums, corporate retreats and summits across North America since 2004. We work with association executives, corporate leadership teams and entrepreneurial communities. We know these rooms.
We also run one. Engaging Associations Forum is our annual leadership gathering for association and NFP executives, bringing together Executive Directors and CEOs since 2014. We produce it to the same standard we bring to every client engagement.
That is not a claim. Come and see for yourself.
Engaging Associations Forum, Ottawa, July 2027.
We start with intent, not a checklist. A focused conversation about what your event needs to accomplish, who needs to be in the room and what your audience should carry home.
We translate your intent into a complete experience architecture: format, flow, speaker strategy, content journey and the moments that will be remembered.
We handle every detail from sign-up to sign-off. Your only job on the day is to be present for the people you have brought together.
In the communities where your audience operates, reputation travels fast. Sponsors who felt their investment was not reflected in the experience do not renew. Delegates who felt the day did not respect their time do not return.
The cost that rarely gets named: showing up to your own event depleted because you spent the morning managing logistics. You cannot lead a room you have been running all day.
You walk into the room as a leader. Every element, from the opening moment to the closing conversation, reflects the calibre of your organization. Your audience leaves with something real: a connection, a decision, a renewed conviction in the direction you are leading them.
Sponsors see the value and want to come back. Next year, people ask to attend before you have announced it. Your event becomes the proof of what your organization stands for.
You are responsible for an event your board, your members and your sponsors are all watching. We design and produce association forums and leadership conferences for Executive Directors and CEOs who need the room to reflect the weight of the work, without carrying the production burden themselves.
The people in your room are evaluating everything. We design and produce corporate retreats, leadership offsites and client summits for organizations where the experience has to match the standard of the audience.
Your summit has to match the ambition of the founders and investors in the room. We produce flagship summits and convenings for accelerators, incubators and entrepreneurial organizations where the production has to earn the energy of the people who showed up.
Every engagement starts with a conversation about intent. Where we go from there depends on what your event requires and what your internal team can carry.
Your flagship forum, leadership retreat or client summit requires complete executive production. We design the experience, own the production and run the show. Your only job on the day is to walk into the room and lead it. Starting from $35,000/project.
You are ready to hand off the production entirely. We take complete ownership of the event management: venue, vendors, AV, registration and on-site execution. You stay focused on the vision. We handle everything else. Starting from $15,000/project.
You have a capable internal team. What you need is the strategic architecture and a framework to execute it well. We design the plan, the experience and the production blueprint. Your team executes it under our guidance. Starting from $3,500/month.
Not sure which engagement model fits your event? Need ongoing support across the year, not tied to a single event? Ask about our year-round partnership model when you book your call. See the full breakdown.
Mahoganey has spent more than 20 years designing and producing executive events for leaders who cannot afford a room that falls flat. She founded Event Specialists in 2004 and has since built it into one of Canada’s premier boutique executive event companies, producing leadership forums, corporate retreats and summits across North America.
She also produces the Engaging Associations Forum, the annual leadership gathering for association and NFP executives. She brings the same standard to every client engagement.
When you work with Event Specialists, Mahoganey is personally involved from the first conversation.
Every leader we work with asks the same question before their first call: how do I hand this off without losing what matters most about it?
We wrote the answer down.
An executive event company specializes in designing and producing leadership forums, summits, corporate retreats and senior leadership convenings for senior leaders. Unlike a general event planning company or meeting planner, an executive event company brings strategic experience design alongside full production expertise, translating organizational intent into a precise experience architecture. Event Specialists Inc. has been producing executive events across North America since 2004.
Event planning typically covers the logistical coordination of an event: venue sourcing, vendor management, scheduling and registration. Event production goes further. It encompasses the strategic design of the experience, the content architecture, the technical execution and complete management of every element from concept to close. At Event Specialists, we produce events. We do not simply plan them.
Event Specialists produces leadership forums, annual association conferences, corporate retreats and strategic offsites, client summits, entrepreneurial summits, board retreats and hybrid executive experiences. Every format is produced at the same standard: the room, the agenda and the outcome reflect the calibre of the leaders in it.
Event Specialists works with association and NFP Executive Directors producing annual forums and member conferences, corporate executive teams including COOs, Chiefs of Staff and Managing Partners producing leadership retreats and client summits and entrepreneurial community organizations producing flagship summits and convenings. We work across North America with organizations where the standard of the room is non-negotiable.
Most event management companies and conference planners specialize in logistics. Event Specialists specializes in executive experience design. We also own and operate two executive communities (Engaging Associations Forum and Event Business Alliance), which means we understand what moves senior audiences not as a theory but from the inside. We produce at the standard we set for our own rooms.
Schedule a 30-minute call. We do not start with logistics — we start with intent. We spend the first conversation understanding what your event needs to accomplish, who needs to be in the room and what your audience should carry home. From there, the right path forward becomes clear. Book your call at eventspecialists.ca/booking