Featured Project · Professional Services

Michelle Orlando

Who
Michelle Orlando is the visionary founder behind Elevoque, an agency transforming business events into elevated, evocative brand experiences. With more than two decades of international, award winning experience, she blends bold creative vision with strategic precision, bringing together teams and experiences that resonate, inspire, and endure. Rooted in Chicago and connected globally, Michelle is drawn to the complexities of human connection. Her passion and sense of possibility have shaped Elevoque’s reputation for both excellence and impact.
Goal
My goal was to create a library of powerful images that conveyed Michelle’s warmth, authenticity, and authority as a leading event planner.
Outcome
My initial executive branding session at Michelle’s Willis Tower offices and the newly completed rooftop garden produced a dozen strong images, presenting her as friendly, authoritative, and at home in the city. Over the next five years, I expanded the library through additional sessions to include new portraits, staff headshots, and corporate branding images of the team in action. Michelle and her colleagues have also visited the studio to refresh their images and photograph new team members.

Since 2021 | Professional Services | Executive Branding, Group Portraits, Headshots

A mutual acquaintance referred Michelle to me in late summer 2021, as life was beginning to return to normal. She was preparing to make her mark on the events industry with her new planning business, Ethos Event Collective (which since evolved into Elevoque), and wanted to collaborate on imagery that would establish her presence as a leading event planner.

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She was so pleased with the images that she has continued to work with my team and me as her business has grown and evolved. In summer 2026, she returned to the studio for a new series of branding photographs, including images celebrating five years in business and three years of sobriety.

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