Colt Briner
Colt has over 20+ years' experience as a marketing and business development executive supporting early-stage startups, unicorn companies, and everything in between. Colt has built benchmark-crushing marketing teams from the ground up for 5 companies under his own leadership and supported dozens of others in doing the same.
As founder and CEO of Scrappy AF Marketing Colt helps young organizations capture market share from industry incumbents and supports established businesses in accelerating growth and building pathways into new markets. He leverages strong strategies with creative execution to help businesses and sectors grow fast while spending less.
Colt is a large-scale transformation facilitator and co-founder of the Rad Creative, a global consulting group specializing applying cognitive science and creative coaching to unlock radical potential in businesses and communities. He has been moving powerful innovations through rapid adoption since 2001.
Colt generally focuses on mid-stage B2B tech companies (with revenues of $10+ million), helping them to grow and reach new markets. As a marketer and former teacher, he helped EdTech pioneers bring blended learning and the "flipped model" of education to millions of students around the world. He then transitioned to help AI, machine learning and data science companies in saving thousands of hospitals billions of dollars in administrative costs. Colt's employers and clients have all enjoyed benchmark-crushing marketing performance that has fueled their rapid growth and driven major market shifts.
Colt has been educating and inspiring audiences as a speaker since 2010. Businesses, companies, communities, universities, and conferences call on Colt for his expertise in scrappy marketing, purpose-driven business leadership, boosting creativity, and capitalizing on the opportunities of the exponential age. An energetic and engaging presenter, he takes a results-driven approach to his speaking. Colt combines rich strategy with deeply practical application -- and a bit of humor -- to ensure his listeners come away equipped to succeed as better marketers and better leaders. As a 30-year professional entertainer, Colt knows how to capture and empower an audience.
Specialties: Speaking, creativity coaching, marketing, strategic planning & business development, purpose-driven business, viral content, lean product development, workshop development, strategic positioning, corporate identity, film production, business networking, productivity, comedy writing.
Colt has over 20+ years' experience as a marketing and business development executive supporting early-stage startups, unicorn companies, and everything in between. Colt has built benchmark-crushing marketing teams from the ground up for 5 companies under his own leadership and supported dozens of others in doing the same.
As founder and CEO of Scrappy AF Marketing Colt helps young organizations capture market share from industry incumbents and supports established businesses in accelerating growth and building pathways into new markets. He leverages strong strategies with creative execution to help businesses and sectors grow fast while spending less.
Colt is a large-scale transformation facilitator and co-founder of the Rad Creative, a global consulting group specializing applying cognitive science and creative coaching to unlock radical potential in businesses and communities. He has been moving powerful innovations through rapid adoption since 2001.
Colt generally focuses on mid-stage B2B tech companies (with revenues of $10+ million), helping them to grow and reach new markets. As a marketer and former teacher, he helped EdTech pioneers bring blended learning and the "flipped model" of education to millions of students around the world. He then transitioned to help AI, machine learning and data science companies in saving thousands of hospitals billions of dollars in administrative costs. Colt's employers and clients have all enjoyed benchmark-crushing marketing performance that has fueled their rapid growth and driven major market shifts.
Colt has been educating and inspiring audiences as a speaker since 2010. Businesses, companies, communities, universities, and conferences call on Colt for his expertise in scrappy marketing, purpose-driven business leadership, boosting creativity, and capitalizing on the opportunities of the exponential age. An energetic and engaging presenter, he takes a results-driven approach to his speaking. Colt combines rich strategy with deeply practical application -- and a bit of humor -- to ensure his listeners come away equipped to succeed as better marketers and better leaders. As a 30-year professional entertainer, Colt knows how to capture and empower an audience.
Specialties: Speaking, creativity coaching, marketing, strategic planning & business development, purpose-driven business, viral content, lean product development, workshop development, strategic positioning, corporate identity, film production, business networking, productivity, comedy writing.
How to be Super-Powered in the Exponential Age
The unprecedented access of the exponential age and how to use it to go faster and further in life and business
"You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."
― Buckminster Fuller
Why do some businesses and individuals seem to move forward in leaps and bounds while others crawl along? The answer is that a new market paradigm has made it possible to...
The Killer Content Marketing Framework
Scrappy B2B Marketing 101
Scrappy B2B Marketing 101 - How To Capture More Market Share For Less Money
Every business wants to capture more market for less money. Rising marketing costs, inundated buyers, and saturated markets have left many business struggling to break through the noise. In this presentation, master marketer and founder of ScrappyAFMarketing, Colt Briner shares the tools and methods that he has used to create industry darlings and...
Using Radical Creativity to Drive Better Results in Business
In a study conducted of 1,500 CEOs, it was determined that creativity is the number one factor for future business success.
Every business is looking for ways to gain a competitive edge. Whether struggling with reducing costs, increasing productivity, market expansion or customer satisfaction, radical creativity gives businesses the advantage they need to outperform the market. In this...
How and Why to Become Purpose-Driven
Customer and employee loyalty have become front and center issues for businesses in the 2020s. Great Place to Work's data shows employees of purpose-driven companies are 14X more likely to say they want to work there a long time. A global study by the Zeno Group reveals that consumers are four to six times more likely to purchase, protect and champion purpose-driven companies
Whether it's losing talent...
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