We are so excited to announce our awesome speaker line-up for Social Media Week Lima 2022
April Spencer
I am a self-taught home baker that specializes in unique weddings, corporate events, and edible branding. My business started by complete accident 8 years ago when I wanted to make a special cake for my daughter’s 1st birthday and decided to learn.
I love creating one-of-a-kind wedding cakes for my bridal couples and helping local companies stand out with edible branding and corporate packages. I love showing couples and companies how to wow the people that they care about! Add in collaborating on photoshoots with photographers, venues and vendors near and far and I’m happy as can be.
When I’m not making things with sugar, I’m raising 3 incredible daughters with my husband on our little mini farm.
Ryan Koral
Ryan is a documentary filmmaker and the founder of Tell Studios where his team creates video with soul for their clients so they can make a greater impact in the world. He’s also an educator and hosts a weekly podcast for filmmakers wanting to start and grow their own video business. He loves watching The Office, eating Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, hugs, and his wife and three kids. But not necessarily in that order.
Stephen Barga
Stephen Barga (Bargey) Let’s get that out of the way first, not pronounced like it’s spelled but we accept it. Stephen is a high-energy expert in Industrial Sales and Team Building, his career expands over several industries including Marketing, Automotive and Industrial Sales. Stephen worked his way up from an entry-level position to his current seat; Director of Sales and Marketing for Alliance Automation responsible for $60 Million in annual revenue. Using his background as a Cavalry Scout in the US Army he brings intensity, dedication and fun to his team and organization.
Kate Paine
Kate Paine is the founder and CEO of Standing Out Online. She helps executives and entrepreneurs stand out online so they become a recognized authority in their marketplace, and a respected asset to their company and clients.
She uses her journalism and marketing skills to tease out her clients’ compelling stories and to help her clients position themselves as experts or thought leaders both online and off.
Discovering an individual’s story makes her expertise uncommon in the world of online personal promotion. She’s a LinkedIn expert and uses the tool as a powerful personal branding platform. Kate also speaks at national marketing conferences about personal branding strategies and social media, and teaches how to leverage LinkedIn to corporate sales and marketing teams.
Jordache Johnson
Jordache Johnson is an international speaker, digital growth strategist, and business consultant who specializes in helping heart-centered entrepreneurs and experts scale their impact, business, and wealth. He does that with a systemized approach to creating human connection, building authentic relationships and turning them into power friends using his signature framework called, The FRIENDS Method™
Owen Hemsath
Owen Hemsath a.k.a Owen Video is the founder of Videospot & Acceleratus Media. He is the award-winning Business Growth Strategist and High-Performance Coach behind the Nation’s Most Visible & Influential leaders and brands. He has consulted for major brands like North Face, Oracle, and Excelon. Owen has helped his clients achieve millions of views and generate millions of dollars in sales and brand sponsorship. Owen has been invited to speak all over the globe and has been featured in major media like ABC, NBC, KUSI and Social Media Examiner.
Katie Brinkley
Katie Brinkley has been leveraging social media to grow audiences and income for over 18 years. Since the time of MySpace, she’s helped her clients build a strategy to attract the right followers and generate consistent inbound leads in as little as an hour a week.
From building corporate-level growth strategies for AT&T and DirecTV to implementing done-for-you social media for solopreneurs and local businesses, Katie has been at the forefront to the changes in how buyers engage on social media. Utilizing her platform-agnostic strategies, Katie’s clients have been able to see bottom-line results at every stage of the sales process.
Katie’s history of radio journalism mixed with her social aptitude allows her to bring a unique insight and leverage her client stories to the forefront of their social strategy.
Jeff Sieh
Jeff is an international speaker and visual marketing consultant. He hosts the Social Media News Live show and podcast and is also “Head Beard” at Manly Pinterest Tips. Jeff has worked with and produced a wide range of content for various companies, including Guy Kawasaki, Kim Garst, Social Media Examiner, and Tailwind.
Socialmedianewslive.com
Matt Johnston
Matt is the founder and creative director of Guide Social, a video ad creative agency that’s made millions for businesses across the world including 17 Shark Tank companies.
Matt lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and two kids, plays far too many video games for a 40-year-old, and is a coffee-obsessed morning person who couldn’t do meaningful work after 5pm if he tried.
https://www.mattjohnstononline.com/
Rich Brooks
Rich Brooks is founder and president of flyte new media, a digital agency in Portland, Maine, that’s been in business for nearly 25 years. He is a nationally recognized speaker on entrepreneurship,digital marketing, and social media.
He founded The Agents of Change, an annual conference and weekly podcast that focuses onsearch, social & mobile marketing.
Rich is the author of The Lead Machine: The Small Business Guide to Digital Marketing, a popular and well-received book that helps entrepreneurs and marketers reach more of their ideal customers online.
He appears regularly as the “tech guru” on the evening news show, 207, which airs on the NBCaffiliates in Maine. He has also appeared inInc.Magazine, HuffingtonPost,FastCompany.com,CNN.com, theSocial Media Examiner,and many other news sources for stories on digital marketing.
Crystal Tosh
Crystal is the founder of Rockstar Social Media, a human focused marketing agency that helps brands connect by harnessing the power of empathy. A self-proclaimed marketing rebel, she believes there is no such thing as a template or cookie cutter approach to marketing. Every business and brand is unique, Crystal’s goal is to “unbox” brands giving them permission to be who they really are, online and with confidence. Authenticity is every brand’s superpower.
Kim Garst
Kim Garst is one of the world’s most retweeted people among digital marketers. She is a renowned marketing strategist, keynote speaker, and an international best-selling author of Will The Real You Please Stand Up, Show Up, Be Authentic and Prosper in Social Media.
Kim helps entrepreneurs make money online through the power of social selling, live video, and high ticket online courses and masterminds. She was featured by Forbes as a Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer!
https://kimgarst.com/
Tony Christensen
Tony Christensen aka “Tony Does Ads” is a mad scientist who is obsessed with Facebook, TikTok & Google ads. Tony has created and optimized advertising campaigns for ecommerce brands around the world with budgets as high as the millions a month in advertising spend. In his free time, he learns about ads, copywriting and creative and tries to update his French Bulldog Charles Barkley on the latest. Charles is tired of hearing it, so now Tony travels the globe teaching his latest strategies and tactics that get clients results.
Dorien Morin-van Dam
Dorien Morin-van Dam is a Certified Social Media Manager, Strategist, International Keynote Speaker, Organic Specialist and Agile Marketer! She’s been a social media consultant for over 11 years, working with diverse clients all over the world.
In her spare time, Dorien is a marathon runner, hiker, skier and mom to four kids and four dogs. After several family travel adventures which brought her to live in fun places like Brazil and Europe, she now calls the Green Mountain State of Vermont home.
You’ll recognize her on stage and online by her always present orange glasses, a nod to her Dutch heritage.
Mark Suter
Always a student, sometimes a teacher, Mark is a computer science, game design, and entrepreneurship teacher going on 16 years. His classroom is a hybrid of a mad-scientist’s laboratory and a traveling circus. Mistakes are encouraged, iteration is frequent, and expectations are high.
Mark learns Unity alongside his students, teaming up to build 2D, 3D, and virtual reality experiences and games. Students are expected to choose challenging projects that they will enjoy working on. While there are fundamentals-building assignments, much of their grade relies on a grit-based rubric for their project.
Mark won the 2018 District 1 Ohio Teacher of the Year Award, The 2015 Henry Ford Innovation Nation Innovative Teacher award, and is an Adobe Certified Associate Educator and Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert.
Bri Seeley
The Entrepreneur Coach, Bri Seeley, helps entrepreneurs create long-term, sustainable success… on their terms! Bri distills her 14-years of real world experience into easily digestible and tangible tools to help entrepreneurs go from zero to profit. She knows that one-size never fits all, so her approach is customized and tailor made to help each client monetize their vision – unapologetically.
Bri was awarded a Silver Stevie Award in 2020 for Coach of the Year – Business and a Bronze Stevie Award in 2020 for Woman of the Year – Business Services. She is the author of the best-selling Permission to Leap. Bri’s expertise has been featured in over 50 press outlets including Good Morning America, The TODAY Show, Thrive Global, Entrepreneur, Yahoo!, Forbes and more, and has been interviewed on hundreds of podcasts.
Phil Pallen
Phil Pallen is a personal branding expert and keynote speaker. His non-conventional approach to digital marketing and talent for social media has built him a global audience.
As a brand strategist, Phil has advised hundreds of brands from over 30 countries, including a Shark on Shark Tank, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, politicians, and some of the most important names in entertainment. A digital nomad and globetrotter, Phil has delivered speeches on five different continents and frequently appears as an expert contributor in media outlets around the world, including CNN, Access Hollywood, and The Daily Mail.
Jim Fuhs
Jim Fuhs is President of Fuhsion Marketing and does Marketing the Marine Corps way. Jim is a retired Marine LtCol turned digital marketing consultant, speaker, live streamer, podcaster, remote live stream and virtual event producer with over 30 years of business and social media experience. Jim fuses Marine Corps Leadership with next-level digital Marketing. His 20 plus years of highly successful leadership experience as a Marine Corps Officer lets him bring that to bear in the ever-changing world of Marketing and Technology.
Jim collaborates as a remote live producer and has led, assisted and coordinated production teams with clients such as IBM, StreamYard, United Nations Global Compact, MIT, Toastmasters International, Glasko Smith Kline (GSK), Jamaican Chamber Of Commerce, and USABizParty which has included speakers such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Seth Godin, Darren LaCroix and many more.
Mike Gingerich
Mike is a business and life coach who lives to add value to people’s lives in uncommon ways. He strongly believes in the value of travel to bring about new ideas and change, is a fitness geek, and his superpower is synthesizing information and providing tangible next-step ideas.
mikegingerich.com.
Juntae DeLane
Juntae DeLane is a sought-after strategist, thought-leader, and influencer. He is the Founder & CEO at Digital Delane, a full-service digital marketing agency, the Founder of Digital Branding Institute. He is often noted as a Top Social Media and Content Marketing Influencer and has spoken around the world advancing the practice of digital branding. If you can’t catch him on stage or online (@JuntaeDeLane), you can probably find him at the gym, doing his 1,000th push-up. #notreally
Brian Fanzo
Brian Fanzo is a digital futurist keynote speaker who translates the trends of tomorrow to inspire change today. His customized and personalized programs showcase real-world stories and examples of forward-thinking people and businesses. He teaches companies of all sizes how to leverage technology in real-time in order to engage their customers at the right time. Brian has a gift for bringing people together online and offline. He has worked in 76 countries, highlighting his passion for change, collaboration, and technology.
Sarah Kelsey
Sarah Kelsey left a tumultuous marriage in early 2014 after being told that her “bedazzle idea“ was stupid. Fast forward to today, she has an incredibly supportive husband, a healthy happy marriage, and a six-figure crystal design business with creations all over the world, as well as a design studio in her history building located in Wapakoneta, OH complete with luxury lodging for her clients who travel from afar to design with her and her team. She doesn’t just create jewelry, she creates tangible proof that you can make a living doing anything you set your mind to, provided you’re strong enough to break away from those holding you back.
Chad Illa-Petersen
Following a hardcore snipe hunt, botched pizzeria robbery, two years in a bear suit, and several moments atop a 6-foot unicycle, Chad Illa-Petersen (aka The Story Catcher) discovered the compelling power of stories. Today, Chad helps you find and craft the stories you didn’t even know you had to create deeper connections and open a portal of belonging.
Julie Riley
Award-winning social media strategist with a passion for building community with Live Video. Julie Riley has over 15 years of experience in digital marketing. She is the Social Media and Community Manager for StreamYard, managing 25k+ members in their community. She has worked with Social Media Examiner, The Small Business Administration, and countless others.
She has a vast array of experience including live video production, social media management, community management, chat marketing – the list goes on! She is a dedicated community leader with a passion to teach others how they too can build an amazing business through their social channels and grow their communities with live video (her specialty)!
She’s a hard-working woman who knows how to get things done, no matter what challenges come her way. If you want to build an amazing community, Julie can get you there.
Jessika Phillips
Selected as Woman Owned Business of the Year in 2018 and One of the Top 12 Global Rising Stars on Social Media to Watch in 2017: Jessika is on a mission to make relationships the forefront of business marketing. She’s known for this outspoken dedication to Relationship Marketing. Jessika lives by her statement that “Relationships will always be more powerful than marketing,” and she believes in being a magnet vs a Bullhorn to truly connect with your tribe. As a social media strategist, Jessika founded NOW Marketing Group in 2010 with only a laptop and a vision. The company is now a Forbes recognized Agency Partner and a certified inbound partner with Hubspot and the host of Social Media Week Lima.
Christine Gritmon
Christine Gritmon empowers professionals to step into their personal brands in a bigger, bolder way on social media. You CAN do it–she’ll teach you how! She’s spoken on stages worldwide and is a frequent expert guest on podcasts, live streams, Twitter chats, and blog posts, as well as hosting her own weekly Twitter chat, #ChatAboutBrand, and live interview show, Let’s Talk About Brand.
Marc Bowker
Marc Bowker is the CEO of Alter Ego Comics and has been in the e-commerce space for nearly 20 years. He and his wife, Angie, also own Live at The Lab, an intimate event space in downtown Lima. And Marc recently launched MarcBowker.com with success tools for small businesses.
Jen Watson
Jennifer Watson is the Senior Social Media Manager at ActiveCampaign, a meteorologist on The Weather Channel, Speaker and Podcaster. Jennifer is a dynamic talent with a passion for every aspect of digital media from building brand strategies, creating content plans, to getting executive buy-in. She motivates audiences from the stage and drives engagement, including launching numerous Facebook Live campaigns for the biggest weather brand, garnering millions of views. She has been featured in Chief Content Marketer Magazine, and on stage at Social Fresh, Social Media Marketing World, Social Shake-Up to name a few.
Judi Fox
Judi Fox is listed as a Top 10 LinkedIn Coach for 2021 in Yahoo Finance. She is featured in Inc Magazine, Social Media Week Lima, CEO Magazine, Vidsummit, Social Media Marketing World, Video Marketing World, People of Video, and on several Top 100 Marketing Podcasts. With over 18 years experience in business development and sales, Judi Fox developed the LinkedIn Business Accelerator Method. Clients are implementing this LinkedIn method to achieve more business and over 1 million content views in 90 days.
Jeff Howell
Jeff Howell has transitioned his marketing experience and predisposition to authenticity into a successful ecommerce career. His mission these days is to evangelize the necessity of having a well executed ecommerce solution integrated into existing marketing strategies.