Branding Strategies

<p>Bonin Bough is a high-energy, crowd-pleasing, audience-inspiring speaker, passionate about bringing brands to life in innovative ways, motivating the people who make that possible, and helping build a more diverse community of creative brand professionals.</p><p>Currently, Bonin is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Group Black, the largest ecosystem of Black-owned media brands. Comprised of over 150 Black-owned media brands, the collective aims to dramatically transform the face of media ownership and investment.

Kindra Hall is the go-to expert for storytelling in business and beyond.

Kindra Hall is a bestselling author and the president and chief storytelling officer at Steller Collective, a consulting firm focused on the strategic application of storytelling to today’s communication challenges. As a speaker, she works with global companies to inspire teams and individuals to better communicate the value of their company, their products and their individuality through strategic storytelling.

<p>Practical. Actionable. Inspirational. Real. Hilarious. These five words show up most often in feedback Ann gets after a keynote speech. </p>

<p>Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author ranked one of the world’s best marketing keynote speakers. She inspires and motivates 25,000 event attendees around the world every year to shed marketing mediocrity and ignite real business results through the power of content, social media, storytelling, and other digital tools. </p>

<p>One of the most influential marketing experts on the planet shares insights on cultivating world-class creativity and uniting humanity through inclusive, purpose-driven brand strategy.</p><p>Currently the CMO of fintech platform Rocket Companies, Jonathan Mildenhall is a globally respected professional in the marketing and advertising world. He is Co-founder and Chair of TwentyFirstCenturyBrand, one of the world&#39;s leading branding and marketing consultancies.

<p>Jay Baer is a Hall of Fame Speaker, <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of six books, internet pioneer, entrepreneur, and the most inspirational expert on marketing, word of mouth, and customer service.</p><p>Jay spent 20 years in digital marketing, consulting for more than 700 companies during that period, including 30 of the FORTUNE 500.

<p>Ira Blumenthal is founder and president of Co-Opportunities, Inc., a dynamic business development and consulting firm that counsels world-class companies from industries across the board. A highly distinguished 25-year veteran of the food industry and respected branding and marketing expert, Blumenthal has had a long-lasting impact on a variety of organizations facing change, challenges, and business as unusual.

<p>The multi-award-winning visionary behind Chipotle, William Espey shares his recipe for connecting authentically and powerfully with customers and employees.</p><p>William Espey is a branding expert known for his pivotal role in creating and developing one of the most significant and successful brands of the last quarter century—Chipotle Mexican Grill. As the company’s “brand voice” for an almost twenty-year run, he played a crucial role in cultivating its growth from its early entrepreneurial roots to the multi-billion dollar chain it became in the U.S. and abroad.

<p>Sir Richard Branson is Founder of the Virgin Group. Virgin is one of the world’s most irresistible brands and has expanded into many diverse sectors from travel to telecommunications, health to banking and music to leisure to space. Having started Virgin as a mail order record retailer in 1970, Richard founded Virgin Records.

<p>John Moore shares actionable business advice from his experience propelling two of the world’s most recognized brands into the stratosphere.</p><p>John believes passion and a sense of purpose fuel successful brand messages. And he should know, having played an instrumental role in the marketing that transformed Starbucks into a global icon and as director of national marketing for grocery powerhouse Whole Foods Market.

<p>With an illustrious decades-long career in hospitality, Bruce Himelstein is credited with leading some of the travel/hospitality industry’s most prestigious brands, including Loews Hotels, The Ritz Carlton and Oceana Cruises.</p>