Delivering professional event management and growth through a suite of support services
Full-service event management support for the annual Military Spouse Employment Partnership event
CLIENT: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE
The Challenge
Provide event management support for Military Spouse Employment Partnership annual events to engage current partner employers and recruit new ones.
The Impact
Delivered a stream-lined, automated check-in process and multi-solutioned support, creating a seamless event flow and annual growth with more than 350 new MSEP partners and 109,000 military spouses hired.
The Outcome
Bowen’s on-site support exceeded the client’s needs, allowing them to focus on engaging attendees and giving presentations. A 2015 Gold Hermes Award went to Bowen for their event print products.
The Bowen Group delivered seamless, full-service event management support for the Spouse Education and Career Opportunities program’s Military Spouse Employment Partnership annual event for six consecutive years, ensuring event growth and program development. Team Bowen’s automated check-in process substantially improved event traffic flow eliminating lines and making walk-in registrations simple. Providing multiple solutions throughout event planning allowed the client to make last minute changes to the agenda and to the event layout.
With Bowen’s event support covering all client needs, the client was able to engage with event attendees including members of Congress, military service assistant secretaries, senior military spouses of the service chiefs of staff and military spouse employees of MSEP companies. Bowen’s award-winning team received the 2015 Gold Hermes Award for the products they created for this event, including the event program, posters, outreach card, folder, flyer and MSEP window cling.