About the Branding Diva
A branding enthusiast, social media entrepreneur, and businesswoman,
Karen Post ignites action.
For more than 24 years, Karen Post has been developing solutions and implementing methods that make things happen. She started her first business at the age of 22, and built two successful companies: an award-winning ad agency and a legal communication firm specializing in high-stakes litigation. In 1999, she also raised millions for a start-up she’d like to forget. However, she believes that what does not kill you adds to your value and, in 2006, got bit by the start-up bug again and founded Oddpodz, a community and idea engine for creative professionalsand businesses.
Her branding work has benefited Fortune 500 organizations and emerging small businesses in both consumer and business-to-business sectors.
She’s unorthodox, intense, and full of wit.
Karen makes people confront comfort zones in a healthy way. She challenges conventional thinking and opens minds to new possibilities. “Can’t be done” is not in her vocabulary. She gets excited about what does not work and lives by the mantra “No risk. No brand.”Karen brings energy and expertise to meetings.
- Delivering branding, marketing and business keynotes
- Facilitating branding and strategic planning sessions
- Conducting interactive workshops
- Moderating panel discussions
- And serving as master of ceremonies
Karen has been a regular contributor to Fastcompany.com and has been featured in numerous national business and marketing print, broadcast, and online media outlets. Her writing is published internationally. Her most recent book, Brain Tattoos, Creating Unique Brands that Stick in Your Customers' Minds, is available in the United States and now in Korea.
Karen helps organizations excel through the power of the brand. Her keynotes inspire, her workshops empower, and her facilitation sessions stimulate innovation and release bottled-up ideas for action.
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Favorite non work activities:
Tennis, comedy, music and vegging out at the spa
Heroes:
Abe Lincoln, who shares her birthday; Norm Post, her late dad; Diana Marshall, her mentor; Steve Jobs and Madonna
Favorite movies:
Good Will Hunting, The English Patient, Seabiscuit, A Beautiful Mind, Garden State, Finding Neverland, Elizabethtown, and Big Fish.
Two scariest events:
1. Performing stand up for the first time at the Improv Comedy Theater in Tampa, FL.
2. Taking her car out on the Sebring racetrack with 200 other Porsches.
Most embarrassing event:
Due to the 2-bag limit, wore her cow costume to board a Southwest plane to avoid missing her flight.
Biggest Biz thrill:
Getting a book deal with an international publisher.
Sharing the stage with Magic Johnson, Marlo Thomas and Apprentice producer, Mark Burnett.
What really annoys Karen:
Being on hold with tech support
Buying fruit at the store, and getting home to find it's awful
Encountering containers you can't open
People or animals that whine
Screaming kids that are not related to her
Branding, ideas, insight.
- Five of the most important questions you should ask before hiring a Web development company.
- Creativity. Increase your ideas output by at least 50%. 5 easy actions that can pump up your creative muscle.
- Cross the border, brands change. So do relationships with them.
- The enormously underrated value of EASY and 5 questions you should ask
- Brandtown USA. The importance of destination branding.
- Brand Voice. The importance of adding sound to your brand sound should never be underestimated.
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