BMO Marketing Summit: Bringing Professional Headshots to a National Team
See how One Tree Studio photographed hundreds of professional corporate headshots during a BMO internal event in Toronto with a fast, studio-quality on-site headshot experience.
Each year, BMO brings together its marketing team from across Canada for an annual all-hands meeting. While these gatherings allow attendees to collaborate, share ideas, and strengthen connections, they also create a rare opportunity to provide every employee present with a consistent, professional headshot during a single event.
Recognizing this unique opportunity, BMO partnered with One Tree Studio to provide unlimited headshots during the event. Rather than asking employees to schedule individual appointments throughout the year, the company was able to offer nearly the entire team professional images while everyone was already together. Employees received a valuable resource they could use for LinkedIn, company profiles, speaking engagements, and other professional purposes, while BMO benefited from a consistent, unified company-wide look.
Making the Most of a Rare Opportunity
To keep the experience organized and minimize disruption to the proceedings, employees were sent to the portrait station in small groups throughout the day. This allowed participants to receive their headshots without waiting in long lines or being pulled out of the rest of the meeting schedule. Our mobile studio was set up adjacent to the event, making it easy for employees to step away briefly before returning to the day's agenda.
For organizations with employees spread across multiple offices or regions, opportunities to photograph an entire team are rare. Annual meetings, conferences, and off-site events provide an ideal time to update headshots without requiring employees to book separate sessions throughout the year.
A Seamless Headshot Experience
Each participant received a professionally guided portrait session with studio lighting and expert direction, creating polished, consistent images across the entire team. Every photograph also received professional basic retouching before delivery, ensuring employees received finished images that were ready to use immediately.
Rather than selecting a single image for editing or arranging additional retouching later, participants received complete galleries of polished portraits. Incorporating retouching into the event itself also provided a more efficient and cost-effective solution than coordinating individual editing requests after the fact.
The process fit naturally into the event schedule, allowing employees to update their professional headshots without interrupting the purpose of the meeting itself.
Creating Long-Term Value for Employees and BMO
Professional headshots continue to provide value long after the event concludes. Employees received updated portraits they can use across LinkedIn, company profiles, speaking engagements, and other professional opportunities, while BMO gained a unified library of consistent headshots that supports internal communications, employer branding, and marketing initiatives.
By incorporating unlimited headshots into an event that was already bringing employees together from across the country, BMO was able to maximize the value of the meeting while giving its team something they could continue using for years to come.
A Continued Partnership with BMO
One Tree Studio has partnered with BMO on a variety of photography projects, including team headshots and event photography. The annual marketing summit is another example of how professional photography can be thoughtfully integrated into an existing event to create value for both employees and the organization.
At One Tree Studio, we specialize in creating professional headshot experiences that fit seamlessly into conferences, off-site meetings, and company events. If you're bringing your team together for an annual meeting, employee engagement event, or corporate retreat, we'd love to help make the most of the opportunity by providing premium images your employees and your organization will continue to benefit from long after the event is over.
Headshot Booth for Purolator's Toronto Corporate Event
Purolator’s coporate event included our unlimited Headshot Booth service! Everything went flawlessly including participants receiving their headshot images INSTANTLY!
One of the greatest things about providing headshots to our corporate clients is that we get to meet the most amazing people!
Our team originally met our contact, Nida, while she was working for another company. After a while, Nida changed jobs and her new employer, Purolator, was planning a corporate event at the Mississauga Convention Centre. She reached out to our team to provide our unlimited headshot service to everyone at the event who wanted headshots.
Our studio has a carefully choreographed process so that our clients have a smooth, headache-free experience. We’ve thought of everything so that you don’t have to!
Purolator booked our Unlimited Headshot Booth package. Choosing this service meant that anyone at their event that wanted a headshot could have one. People could use the service as many times as they wanted for the booked time period.
The service for Purolator also included:
Custom File Renaming: Each file was renamed to match the participants name. This makes file organization after your corporate event a breeze!
Individual Gallery Delivery: Each participant received their own headshot images in a private individual gallery delivered by email. One Tree Studio cares about your privacy! No more images being added to a single, shared gallery for distribution.
Instant Delivery of Images: Each participant received an email instantly onsite with their headshot image files in Purolator branded private individual gallery.
Lead Collection: Purolator received participants’ names, email addresses, and the special information they wished to collect during the headshot sign-up process.
The event went flawlessly and the headshot booth was the highlight of the event! Nida’s Google review speaks for itself. Our team is looking forward to creating many more successful headshot experiences for Purolator!
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