ABOUT ELLERY

Ellery Schaar is a San Francisco Bay Area based experience designer and event producer with over seven years of curating unique and immersive experiences. Her events work to strengthen company culture through targeting the employee experience. She has been described as passionate and creative with the ability to envision dynamic events and execute with style and ease. Ellery has planned over 100 events in both the US and Canada with a range of budgets up to $2.5 million.

She has previously worked for WeWork as a Western US & Canada Event Manager where she quickly advanced within her role and was recognized through various promotions throughout her 6+ years at Wework. The events she produced while at WeWork ranged from high level thematic immersive marketing events with up to 3,000 attendees including the management of artists such as Khelani and The Weekend to intimate in-depth leadership retreats for the General Managers of the West Coast in the great outdoors.

Since departing from WeWork, Ellery has produced events for companies such as UnCommons Las Vegas, Justworks NYC, Makeout Agency NYC as well as multiple corporate retreats in Denver, Austin, San Diego and Spain to name a few. These retreats have focused on extensive team building to help rebuild company culture and connection.

Fun fact about Ellery she holds a B.A. in Theatre from UCSD and has directed on Broadway!

ELLERY’S ADVENTURE STORY

I was producing an overnight retreat in the beautiful Tomales Bay for a team of 25 people. We were to Kayak into the campsite area by dusk, have dinner under the stars and then go back out on the water for a session of moonlight bioluminescent kayaking. Once we had reached the campsite one of the attendees had discovered they had forgotten to pack their insulin. I along with the team I was producing with were able to have a motor boat come pick up the attendee and bring us back to town against high current and strong winds. Once we made it to the town the attendee was able to contact her physician and have a prescription sent to the local pharmacy before it closed. With the medication in tow we all embarked in the dark back out to the campsite safley. We may have missed the catered dinner but a sandwich was all we needed to take part in the bioluminescent kayaking. Seeing the attendee smile with her coworkers under the moonlight and not having to miss out was the greatest reward. I also have never slept so well in my life, phew!