I’m Tania Farries, founder of Clearline Event Strategy. For more than 20 years, I’ve been the person behind the plan when the stakes are high, the details are multiplying, and everything still has to work.
My career began in Washington hospitality and grew to include Presidential Inaugural Balls, association meetings, medical education, global corporate programs, live productions, and venue operations. I have worked in ballrooms, theaters, operating rooms, convention centers, and virtual environments, but the challenge is always the same: turning hundreds of moving parts into one clear, executable plan.
I see the gaps, pressure points, and dependencies that can derail an event. Then I bring the people, timelines, partners, and decisions into alignment before they do.
That is what I bring to Clearline: senior-level strategy, practical operational leadership, and the judgment to make complicated events work.
20+ years
event leadership
300+ Global events
high-profile programs
Up to 8,000
Live attendees
100,000+
Virtual attendees
About
My career has never fit neatly into one box.
I began my career in Washington, DC, creating experiences for dignitaries, celebrities, C-suite leaders, and international guests. The work included Presidential Inaugural Balls and the inaugural launch of Amtrak’s Acela service.
That experience taught me early that a successful event is not simply a beautiful room. It is a carefully coordinated operation, one where protocol, security, transportation, timing, hospitality, and guest experience all have to work together seamlessly.
Ready for Strategic Event Leadership?
Whether you're planning a corporate meeting, nonprofit fundraiser, venue launch, conference, or complex private event, Clearline provides the strategic guidance and operational leadership that helps events succeed long before guests arrive.
ASSOCIATION + MEDICAL PROGRAMS
From ballrooms to operating rooms
After beginning as catering director at a premier restaurant in Washington, DC’s Union Station, I moved into association and global event leadership, planning board and committee meetings, trade shows, and an average of 20+ programs annually for AbbVie and two leading medical associations. Programs included hands-on and cadaver labs, live surgery, scientific sessions, exhibits, and specialized technical production worldwide.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Experience from every side of the event
GLOBAL CORPORATE PRODUCTION
Enterprise events at global scale
Through Capgemini, I planned and delivered more than 300 high-profile programs for McDonald’s, including 50+ global events, virtual productions reaching 100,000+ attendees, and budgets up to $1 million.
VENUE AND LIVE OPERATIONS
Where strategy becomes execution
From private events to large-scale live productions, I have led the full operating plan across venue coordination, food and beverage, AV, talent, security, staffing, branding, guest flow, communications, load-in, event day, and strike.