Karen Post

Karen Post: Profile

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 PostKaren 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, Brand Turnaround: How Brands Gone Bad Returned to Glory and the 7 Game Changers that Made the Difference (McGraw-Hill) and Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers’ Minds (AMACOM), which 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.