Contributors

Dan Schawbel

Dan, recognized as a “personal branding guru” by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the leading authority on personal branding. He is the author of the #1 international bestselling book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan, October 2010), which was the #1 career book of 2009 by The New York Post, is the #1 Amazon bestseller in Japan, and also being translated into Chinese, Korean, and French.

Dan is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the #1 job blog by CareerBuilder in 2008 & 2009, is an AdAge top 50 marketing blog and is syndicated by Reuters, Forbes, Fox Business and other major networks. He is also the publisher of Personal Branding Magazine® and the Student Branding Blog, head judge for the Personal Brand Awards®, director of Personal Branding TV®, and holds live Personal Branding Events. He is a syndicated columnist for Metro US (New York, Boston & Philadelphia), reaching over 1.2 million readers bi-weekly, is the youngest columnist at BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal. Dan’s been featured in over 350 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Details Magazine, ELLE Magazine, The Washington Post, CBS, ABC News, MSNBC, NPR, USA Today, Forbes, and The Boston Globe. He is a keynote speaker at colleges and universities, such as Harvard Business School and MIT and at major companies such as Time Warner, IBM, and CitiGroup.

National recognition

• Inc. Magazine’s 30 Under 30: America’s Coolest Young Entrepreneurs
• Huffington Post’s 16 Brilliant Business Minds on Twitter
• BusinessWeek’s 20 Entrepreneurs You Should Follow on Twitter
• Details Magazine’s 5 Internet Guru’s That Can Make You Rich
• brandgurus.net 30 Most Influential Brand Guru’s of 2010
• Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp.’s Most Influential Small Business People on Twitter

Adriana Llames – Monday

Adriana is a veteran career coach and acclaimed author of Career Sudoku: 9 Ways to Win the Job Search Game, released with top book seller Amazon.com. She is creator of   “HR In-A-Box,” a Human Resources software product helping small businesses across America and a professional keynote speaker motivating and inspiring audiences with her focused programs on “9 Ways to Win the Job Search Game”, “Confessions of a Career Coach” and “Nice Girls End Up on Welfare”. Llames is the founder of the Chicago Chapter of the International Association of Coaching, recipient of the Golden Goose Award from Franklin Covey Centers for Leadership and has been named “One of The Finest Career Coaches” by The Examiner. She is a featured career expert on ABC News.com, Monster.com, Yahoo! HotJobs, TheLadders.com, The Denver Post, The New York Post and The Chicago Examiner. For more information, visit www.adrianallames.com.

Deborah Shane – Monday

Deborah is an author, media host, speaker, writer and consultant. She hosts her Toolbox Blog and is in her third year of hosting a weekly business radio show called Deborah Shane’s Metropolis that has over 32K downloads! She is a regular contributor to several national business, career and marketing blogs and websites, including Smallbiztrends.com, Careerealism.com, Blogher.com, Personalbrandingblog.com and BusinessInsider.com. Her new book Career Transition-make the shift is available on Amazon.com and all major book sellers. Deborah delivers smart, no-nonsense ideas and solutions, which make her a popular go-to resource for clients, national media and influential blogs. Connect with her on Twitter and LinkedIn @DeborahShane, and visit her atwww.deborahshane.com.

Bryan Clark – Monday 

Bryan is a professional writer, blog editor and tech evangelist. His features have been published by the likes of Technorati, Search Engine Journal, Entrepreneurs Journey, The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, and USA Today. Bryan speaks at blogger and entrepreneurship conferences about blogging, social media, and the benefits of not wearing shoes while working. Connect with Bryan on Twitter or visit his blog at ImBryanClark.com.

Nance Rosen - Tuesday

Nance is the author of Speak Up! & Succeed, and an expert on business communication who teaches at UCLA Extension, and speaks all around the world to audiences on social media and career trends. Nance is a former marketing executive at The Coca-Cola Company and currently is CEO of NanceSpeaks and executive publisher at PegasusMediaWorld. She has appeared on CNBC and regularly contributes to media outlets including the New York Times, ABC, CBS radio, Investors Business Daily, MediaPost and the San Francisco Chronicle.

Heather R. Huhman - Tuesday

Heather, founder & president of the exclusive online community connecting the best internship and entry-level job candidates with the best employers, Come Recommended, is as an experienced hiring manager who knows and understands the needs of today’s employers and internship and entry-level job seekers. Her expertise in this area led to her selection as Examiner.com’s entry-level careers columnist in mid-2008. The daily, national column educates high school students through recent college graduates about how to find, land and succeed at internships and entry-level jobs. Additionally, Heather is a career expert for the CAREEREALISM Twitter Advice Project, the job search expert for Campus Calm, a contributor to both One Day, One Job and One Day, One Internship, and author of the e-book “Gen Y Meets the Workforce: Launching Your Career During Economic Uncertainty.”

Elinor Stutz – Wednesday

Elinor is the CEO of Smooth Sale, LLC, a sales training company.  She teaches how to apply relationship selling skills to every endeavor including interviewing, writing a book, and building your business.  Elinor is the author of the best-selling book, “Nice Girls DO Get the Sale: Relationship Building That Gets Results” published by Sourcebooks. Her book was featured in TIME Magazine, translated into multiple languages and sells worldwide.  Elinor’s new book, “HIRED! How to Use Sales Techniques to Sell Yourself On Interviews” is based upon years of community service teaching job-seekers how to land the job they desire. An international speaker, audiences term Ms. Stutz as both inspirational and motivational and claim through her insights they more readily found success.  You may find her teaching webinars for entrepreneurs, training corporate sales teams and teaching students and job seekers how to interview best.

Roger C. Parker - Wednesday

Roger is a “32 Million Dollar Author,” book coach, and online writing resource. His 38 books have sold 1.9 million copies in 35 languages around the world. The NY Times called his Looking Good in Print “…the one to buy when you’re buying only one!” Roger has interviewed hundreds of successfully branded authors and shares what he’s learned at Published & Profitable and in his daily writing tips blog.  He has presented hundreds of keynote speeches, seminars and workshops, with clients such as Apple Computer, Kyocera, University of Washington, and Yamaha Audio.

Devin Hughes – Thursday

Devin Hughes is a former college basketball player, sales and marketing aficionado, keynote speaker, part-time academic and frequent eclectic thinker. He draws on a variety of ideas, disciplines and trends to inspire “Big Thoughts” and facilitate conversations. He is best known for his expertise in selling best practices, sales strategy, sales training, leadership development and sales coaching. He is an avid storyteller who has the unique ability to connect with audiences by inspiring them to be the change they wish to see in the world. A graduate of Colgate University, he lives Carlsbad, CA with his wife and four daughters. You may contact him via e-mail at devin@devinchughes.com. Follow him on Twitter. His website is: http://www.devinchughes.com/ He is also a featured blogger on http://www.upstartnation.biz. He is available upon request for consultation.

Skip Freeman - Thursday

Skip Freeman is the author of “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets: The Rules of the Hiring Game Have Changed . . . Forever!, where it has consistently been ranked in the “top 100” in the job hunting genre on Amazon.Com. “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets outlines in detail what the NEW rules of the hiring game are, as well as provides job-seekers with step-by-step, from beginning-to-end instructions and guidance on how to use these NEW rules to their advantage and effectively apply the winning tactics and strategies he uses everyday as a “headhunter” to successfully place people in a turbulent job market and dynamic global economy.Skip is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The HTW Group (Hire to Win), an Atlanta, GA, Metropolitan Area Executive Search Firm. In that capacity, he is consistently among the top executive recruiters in the nation, on the basis of total candidate placements. Over the last seven years, he has successfully completed more than 300 executive search assignments. Specializing in the placement of sales, engineering, manufacturing and R&D professionals, he has developed powerful techniques that help companies hire the best and help the best get hired.

Jacob Share - Friday

Jacob is the founder and SVP of Share Select Media, a company focused on empowering quality bloggers and blogs such as Group Writing Projects, The Original Home of Group Writing Projects. His JobMob blog has attracted over a million page views last year alone. He grew up between Canada, France and Israel where he had his first Internet experience in 1994 and was hooked. Since then he’s enjoyed playing a part in growing the Web as a manager-developer and project manager at Amazon.com and other e-commerce companies before starting up his own venture.

Katie Marston - Friday

Katie is the CEO and founder of DYME Branding, a personal and lifestyle branding company focusing on professional athletes. DYME enriches the lives and positive perceptions of professional athletes through an innovative, personalized approach for creation/enhancement of their personal brand. Before launching DYME, Katie worked for over 11 years with the adidas brand in Global brand strategy development, US product category/brand communication management, and European sales management while living in the US, Holland, and Germany. Katie is a lover of sports, business, fun, family and all things in-between. Merging her love for sports and business into a career was her goal from day one. Follow her on twitter at @ktmarston or learn more at dymebranding.com.

Oscar Del Santo – Friday

Oscar is one of the trailblazers of online reputation management and popularisers of inbound marketing in Spain. In his various roles as consultant, blogger, lecturer and international speaker, he has worked with companies and institutions from many industries including social media and communication agencies and business schools. He has been extensively featured in the Spanish and Latin American media and is a regular contributor to several TV and radio programs. He is the author of ‘Reputacion Online para Tod@s’ and can be followed on Twitter @OscarDS. He was recently awarded the #TwitawardSV for his participation in El Salvador’s Social Media Day and has been included in the ‘Top 70 Spanish Tweeters’ list.

Erik Deckers – Saturday

Erik is the co-owner and VP of Creative Services for Professional Blog Service in Indianapolis. He has been blogging since 1997, and has been a published writer for more than 24 years. He has been a newspaper humor columnist for 17 years, and is published in 10 newspapers around Indiana. Erik co-authored Branding Yourself: Using Social Media to Invent or Reinvent Yourself (Pearson, 2010). He also helped write Twitter Marketing for Dummies. Erik frequently speaks about blogging and social media for personal branding and small business marketing.

Dan Gershenson – Saturday

Wendy Brache – Sunday

Wendy builds and executes personal branding and online marketing strategy for executives and corporations in the high-tech sector. She is the author of Sales Force Branding: Differentiate from the Competition and co-creator of the Sales Force Branding program, a comprehensive program that utilizes cutting edge technology to differentiate companies, executives and brands from the competition.  Wendy is an executive consultant specializing in B2B Corporate Social Media, Demand Generation and Marketing Automation. She is a featured marketing technology speaker and columnist on renowned websites, such as Maria Shriver’s Women’s Conference, Chopra’s Intent.com and Denver’s GreatIdeasForKids.com.  A fervent believer in “a little means a lot”, Wendy founded The Small Deeds Network, a charitable organization that combines small personal efforts of many to provide food, clothing and other necessities to those in need.

Rebecca Rapple – Sunday

Rebecca helps good people get great jobs through highly innovative tactics. Her experience in career and job search coaching made her realize that when job seekers struggle, it is almost always because of their branding and marketing strategies – not because of anything about the job seeker themselves! To combat this, she helps job seekers craft remarkable job searches that get results. Her clients have a 90+% response rate on their applications for interviews. She has been featured in Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Keith Ferrazzi’s My Greenlight and more. Your can learn more about the fundamentals of a remarkable job search on her site, The Resume Revolution.

Maria Elena Duron – Blog editor

Maria Elena is CEO (chief engagement officer) of buzz2bucks -a word of mouth firm. Skilled at making networks “work” and harnessing the power online and offline buzz, she facilitates communities for companies and professionals along with word-of-mouth coaching and seminars.  She is author of Mouth To Mouth Marketing, the ebook Social Capital I.R.A. and a contributing author of Launchpad.  Duron is a published expert on branding and marketing in Entrepreneur Magazine. She is featured weekly as the marketing coach on CBS television and is the co-founder of #brandchat -a weekly chat on Twitter all about branding.