Karen Post

Karen Post

FL, US
Karen wakes up sleepy brands. International branding, marketing & entrepreneurship expert. First US woman to address Saudi Airline's annual conf. Entrepreneurial, high-energy, creative & entertaining!

Do you need a more captivating brand?
One that sticks in your buyers' minds? One that delivers that amazing, emotional zing, where your customers and stakeholders can't get enough? And where they line up to become a brand ambassador? With 30 plus years of creating and executing brands, or metaphorically speaking-brain tattooing, making permanent mind marks of admiration and loyalty about organizations and their offerings-Karen is ready to help you.

A branding evangelist, serial entrepreneur, and an idea machine, Karen ignites audiences with entertaining and educational presentations.

Karen's most popular programs address:

• Breakthrough branding

• Brand turnarounds

• Creating unforgettable customer experiences

• And leveraging personal power

Whether you need help with managing a major change in your organization that impacts your brand, strengthening an internal brand, launching a new product brand or with invigorating your sales team or front lines, her presentations deliver.

Since 2000, she has led Brain Tattoo Branding, a firm that provides creative and strategic services to start, grow, and manage brands. Karen is also a sought after speaker, who addresses global audiences, and is proud to have been the first female American speaker to address the Saudi Arabian Airlines national conference in 2011.

Karen started her first business at age 22, and built two successful companies-an award-winning ad agency and a legal communications firm specializing in high-stakes litigation that she led for over twenty years. In 2006, she launched Brain Tattoo Publishing, an online enterprise for creatively-charged entrepreneurs, business professionals and marketers that now produces digital learning tools in niche markets.

Throughout her career, her work has benefited diverse industries, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Albemarle, ACNielsen, Celanese, Choice International, Cox Cable and Media, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Xerox, Sara Lee, Pepsi, and Procter & Gamble along with many emerging businesses, trade associations, professional athletes, entertainers, and politicians.

Her books include:  Brand Turnaround (McGraw-Hill) and Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers' Minds (AMACOM).
 
Karen is a regular branding commentator on FOX TV and has been featured in other business and marketing print, broadcast and online media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS's Early Show, the New York Times, the New York Post, Fast Company, Miami Herald, The Boston Globe and NPR.
 
In addition to leading her companies Karen is an advisory board member of University of Tampa Entrepreneurship Center, a UT Board of Fellows, and is a member of Leadership Houston Class VIII Alumni.

Do you need a more captivating brand?
One that sticks in your buyers' minds? One that delivers that amazing, emotional zing, where your customers and stakeholders can't get enough? And where they line up to become a brand ambassador? With 30 plus years of creating and executing brands, or metaphorically speaking-brain tattooing, making permanent mind marks of admiration and loyalty about organizations and their offerings-Karen is ready to help you.

A branding evangelist, serial entrepreneur, and an idea machine, Karen ignites audiences with entertaining and educational presentations.

Karen's most popular programs address:

• Breakthrough branding

• Brand turnarounds

• Creating unforgettable customer experiences

• And leveraging personal power

Whether you need help with managing a major change in your organization that impacts your brand, strengthening an internal brand, launching a new product brand or with invigorating your sales team or front lines, her presentations deliver.

Since 2000, she has led Brain Tattoo Branding, a firm that provides creative and strategic services to start, grow, and manage brands. Karen is also a sought after speaker, who addresses global audiences, and is proud to have been the first female American speaker to address the Saudi Arabian Airlines national conference in 2011.

Karen started her first business at age 22, and built two successful companies-an award-winning ad agency and a legal communications firm specializing in high-stakes litigation that she led for over twenty years. In 2006, she launched Brain Tattoo Publishing, an online enterprise for creatively-charged entrepreneurs, business professionals and marketers that now produces digital learning tools in niche markets.

Throughout her career, her work has benefited diverse industries, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Albemarle, ACNielsen, Celanese, Choice International, Cox Cable and Media, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Xerox, Sara Lee, Pepsi, and Procter & Gamble along with many emerging businesses, trade associations, professional athletes, entertainers, and politicians.

Her books include:  Brand Turnaround (McGraw-Hill) and Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers' Minds (AMACOM).
 
Karen is a regular branding commentator on FOX TV and has been featured in other business and marketing print, broadcast and online media outlets, including The Wall Street Journal, NBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS's Early Show, the New York Times, the New York Post, Fast Company, Miami Herald, The Boston Globe and NPR.
 
In addition to leading her companies Karen is an advisory board member of University of Tampa Entrepreneurship Center, a UT Board of Fellows, and is a member of Leadership Houston Class VIII Alumni.

Brain Tattoo - Build a brand so powerful they can't get it out of their minds

This program is how to create, grow and sustain a strong brand. Whether your meeting is around industrial and B2B challenges or  consumer brands Karen's over 30 years of brand building is high-energy and full of how to stand out in a noisy world. Her programs can be insightful with an entertaining spin or extremely tactical, with a roll up your sleeves today approach.

BrandingEntertainment-basedEducational / Informative

Get your brand back! How to turn chaos into competitive edge

This program is about turnaround – bouncing forward, radical recovery and returning to glory. Based on Karen's best-selling book this program addresses social media, the press and staying ahead of a damaging story.

BrandingEntertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing

Take it higher, brand up!

This program is about how to elevate your brand essence, recharge your relevance and pump up your presence.

Entertainment-basedEducational / Informative

When a bird poops on your head, say thank you!

Life’s not always fair - How to turn chaos into your competitive edge. Program addresses self-esteem, dealing with rejection and building stamina.

EntrepreneurismEntertainment-basedEducational / InformativeInspirational / Life-changing