About the Branding Diva®
A branding enthusiast, entrepreneur, and resilient businesswoman.
Karen Post ignites action.
For more than 29 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.
Her life and business journey has included ups and downs, victories and defeats all adding to her success and unique experience-rich perspective.
Her branding work has benefited Fortune 500 organizations, mid-market businesses, emerging small businesses, start-ups, home-based businesses, nonprofits organizations, Internet and brick and mortar businesses in both consumer and business-to-business sectors.
She’s unorthodox, optimistic, intense, spontaneous 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.”
As a speaker, 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 about small business, branding, advertising, marketing and social media is published internationally.
Karen has authored two marketing books, her latest is Brand Turnaround: How Brands Gone Bad Returned to Glory… and the 7 Game Changers that Made the Difference (McGraw-Hill) will be out in late 2011. Her first book Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers’ Minds (AMACOM) was published in the United States and 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.
Download Karen’s expertise, fee & bio sheet (pdf) (view as html)
Please call for pricing and availability.
More about Karen
Karen was born in Buffalo, New York.
She attended Mayfield High School in Western Kentucky.
Her first job was removing hot hockey pucks that were just silk screened off a conveyer belt.
She left college early to start her first business in 1982.
She was a visual merchandiser for several years before starting her ad agency and still views many business and personal impressions and touch points as window displays.
Through out her career she has held many leadership positions with nonprofit boards and has supported many worthy causes.
Her core beliefs include:
As individuals and businesses we are responsible for our actions and control 98% of our destinies and outcomes.
Success is a journey. Happiness is a choice. If these two outcomes are not what you want, take action and make changes.
Favorite non work activities:
Playing tennis, enjoying comedy, live music and music videos, reading, watching great movies and vegging out at the spa.
A few of her heroes include:
Abe Lincoln, who shares her birthday; Norm Post, her late dad; Diana Marshall, her mentor; Steve Jobs, Mark Cuban, Seth Godin 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:
Raising money for a start up.
Getting my first 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
