Speaking

Mike speaks regularly on the power of Social Media and Personal Branding. He is recognized for his ability to convey a message with heartfelt passion and conviction. It comes naturally when you are doing what you love. As a Fortune 500 marketing executive, he represented his employers at various events of well over 12,000 attendees, including press briefings, panels, corporate presentations, and executive reviews.
Topics Include:
- The Age of Brandividual: Leveraging Social Media to Build Your Personal & Company Brand
- Workshop: 4 Hour Bootcamp on how to get started on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media sites
- The Future is Local: How location-based applications are changing how consumers interact with retailers and brands
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Speaking Events
- 3/10/12 SXSW “Your Marketing Sucks: Why You Need to Think Local“
- 2/17/12 Explore Dallas Fort Worth
- 2/11/12 Kellogg Graduate School of Management and Northwestern University
The 7th Annual Kellogg Career Symposium “Moving up in a Down Economy: How to Accelerate Your Career“ - 2/9/12 PRSA Dallas – The Age of the Brandividual
- 2/9/12 TeXchange Panel “Bootstrapped PR“
- 10/13/11 Guest Lecturer, University of North Texas, Department of Radio, TV and Film
- 9/14/11 DFW Retail Executives Association – Social Media in Retail: What’s New? What’s Now? What’s Next?
- 7/8/11 Marketing Executives Networking Group (MENG), Google 2011: It’s all About Local
- 5/24/11 Brookhaven Country Club Business Alliance, Panel on Social Media
- 5/18/11 DFWSEM Panel on Intersection of Search and Social
- 4/27/11 DFW American Marketing Association, Google 2011, Dallas, TX
- 4/2/11 LULAC District III Convention, Dallas, TX
- 2/22/11 SMU PRSSA, Dallas TX
- 1/11/11 Professional Association of Innkeepers, Charleston, SC
- 10/28/10 Social Media Club of Ft. Worth – The Age of The Brandividual
- 10/20/10 SMU - Careers in Social Media Dallas, TX
- 10/19/10 SMU – Social Media and Your Job Search Dallas, TX
- 9/17/10 Optimization Summit - Social Media ROI.
- 9/17/10 Kimberly Schlegel Whitman RSVP Calendar – Building your Brand via Social Media
- 9/11/10 Press Club of Dallas Social Media Workshop at SMU, Dallas, TX
- 8/18/10 eWomen Network Ft. Worth, TX
- 7/14/10 North Texas Food Bank Agency University – Social Media: The Way of The Future
- 6/29/10 Career Connection General Session
- 5/28/10 Big D Design Conference, Dallas, TX
- 3/11/10 The Innkeeping Show, Austin, TX
- 3/9/10 DFW American Marketing Association New Media SIG ”The Age of the Brandividual”, Dallas, TX
- 2/25/10 MIT Enterprise Forum “Bootstrapping”
- 2/25/10 KickApps Social Media Seminar: Keys to Business Success with Social Media.
- 2/6/10 Kellogg Alumni Club of Dallas 5th Annual Career Symposium, SMU Exec Ed Center, Dallas, TX
- 12/16/09 Grace Community Church – “The Age of the Brandividual” 7pm WC101, Plano, TX
- 11/2/09 Tourism Association of New Mexico Research and Marketing Conference Albuquerque, NM
- 10/16/09 PRSA Dallas Communications Summit Dallas, TX
- 9/23/09 PR Newswires “Industries in Flux: Media and Public Relations and the Impact of Social Media“
- 9/5/09 DFW Twitter Meetup, BlackFinn in Addison, TX
- 8/10/09 Social Media Marketing Workshop Las Cruces, NM
- 7/21/09 Private Webinar – “Leveraging LinkedIn To Grow Your Business”
- 5/22/09 Seminar Albuquerque, NM
- 5/18/09 DFW Social Media Marketing Meetup - “The Age of the Brandividual” Dallas, TX
- 5/14/09 Winning In Life Now Radio Interview
- 4/30/09 Dallas Morning News
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