A branding enthusiast, 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.
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 keynotes
· Facilitating branding sessions
· Conducting workshops
· Moderating panel discussions
Karen writes a monthly sales and marketing column for 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, was released in December 2004.
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.
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
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: Sharing the stage with Magic Johnson, Marlo Thomas and Apprentice producer, Mark Burnett
Most annoying things: Being on hold with tech support
Buying fruit at the store, and getting home to find it's awful
Encountering containers of product you can't open
People or animals that whine
