Dan Schawbel - Monday
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. Recently, Dan was named to the prestigious Inc Magazine 30 Under 30 list.
Dan is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog®, which was the #1 job blog by Careerbuilder in 2008 & 2009, is an AdAge top 30 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 300 media outlets, such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Details Magazine, BusinessWeek, 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 and MIT and at major companies such as Time Warner, IBM, and CitiGroup.
Martin Yate – Monday
Martin (CPC) is the author of Knock em Dead The Ultimate Job Search Guide, a NY Times bestseller updated annually for 24 years. With 11 other books and 63 foreign language editions of his work on top of this, there’s some evidence he has a globally proven approach to job search and career management. He’s published 12 books and two more are on the way. He’s been in career management one way or another for 34 years: Silicon Valley Headhunter and VP with the seminal and feared Executek, Director of HR for Bell Industries Computer Memory Division, Director of Training and Development for Dunhill, the multi-national employment services company, and since 1985 running commentary on survival & success strategies for professionals like you. Martin believes that change is your future, branding is critical, but no one has ever taught you how to navigate this stuff.
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.”
Pete Kistler – Wednesday
Pete is a leading Online Reputation Management expert for Generation Y, a top 5 finalist for Entrepreneur Magazine’s College Entrepreneur of 2009, one of the Top 30 Definitive Personal Branding Experts on Twitter, a widely read career development blogger, and a Judge for the 2009 Personal Brand Awards. Pete manages strategic vision for Brand‐Yourself.com, the first online reputation management platform for job applicants, named one of the Top 100 Most Innovative College Startups in the U.S. He has won a number of top honors for his writing, presentations and business plans. Pete is a member of the Brazen Careerist blogger network, a featured presenter on SlideShare and a member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
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.
Kyle Lacy – Thursday
Kyle has developed a sharp eye for how businesses can use social media and new media marketing to better grow their businesses — and how they can retool for the new age of customer communication. As an entrepreneur who quickly built his own social media marketing and design firm, he also empathetically helps other business owners with understanding the value of combining social media with traditional marketing. Kyle writes a regular blog at KyleLacy.com and is a regular contributor to Smaller Indiana. His blog has been featured on Wall Street Journal’s website and Read Write Web’s daily blog journal. Recently, Kyle was voted as one of the top 150 social media blogs in the world (on two websites), and produces regular keynote speeches across the Midwest. He also just finished writing Twitter Marketing for Dummies by Wiley Publishing.
David Trahan – Thursday
David is a Strategist at leading social marketing agency Mr Youth in New York, which was named one of the Top 10 Most Innovative Marketing Companies in the World by Fast Company Magazine. At Mr Youth David works with Fortune 500 companies to create innovative marketing and business strategies to reach modern consumers, or as he has learned to call them, Consumer 2.0. He previously held positions with the Ad Council, Goldman Sachs and the Federal Reserve. David currently serves on the AD Club of New York Young Professionals Steering Committee and is an Alumni Mentor to undergraduate students at Pace University. David prides himself by living his life with one mantra, “Everything happens for a reason, but you’re the one who makes it happen”. Connect with him on LinkedIn and Twitter or read his blog posts at GrownUpThinking.
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.
Ben Cathers – Friday 
Ben is a young entrepreneur and author who successfully built three different internet startups before he was 19. Ben is the author of Conversations with Teen Entrepreneurs and was named in 2005 by CNN as a member of “America’s Bright Future.” Ben has been quoted/featured in the Wall Street Journal, FOX News, ABC News, CBS News, Yahoo! Internet Life, The London Sunday Times and in over 40 different publications. Today, Ben is working on his 4th startup (stealth mode – in the social media space), does web strategy consulting for small to medium companies, runs the social media group for Lightspeed Financial, maintains a blog on social media and entrepreneurship at BenCathers.com and is on the advisory boards of BranchR.com, ZepFrog Corp and iGot2Know LLC.
Chad Levitt – Saturday
Chad Levitt is the author of the New Sales Economy blog that focuses on how sales 2.0, social media, and inbound marketing can be used as a sales strategy for the Web 2.0 world. Chad is the featured Sales 2.0 blogger at SalesGravy.com, the number one website for sales pros the professional athletes of the business world, and a contributing author for Sales2.com, the top ranked site on Google for Sales 2.0. Chad has been named one of the top twenty sales industry social media users by InsideView, an industry leading sales 2.0 company. Chad began his selling career with EMC in their award winning sales development program where he won Sales Associate of the Year in 2009. Chad is now an Account Executive with HubSpot, the leader in inbound marketing software that is changing the way the world does marketing. Chad attended the University of Central Florida for his undergraduate degree and Nova Southeastern University for his MBA with a concentration in finance.
Wendy Brache – Sunday
Wendy builds and executes personal branding strategy for executives in the high-tech sector. She is the co-creator of Sales Force Branding, an innovative and comprehensive program that utilizes the latest technology to differentiate companies, executives and brands from the competition. Founder of Kismet Group Web Marketing, now a division of Access Marketing Company, Wendy is a senior consultant specializing in B2B Corporate Social Media. 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.
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.
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