Karen Post: Profile

A branding enthusiast, entrepreneur, and businesswoman, Karen Post is a national speaker, author, and CEO and founder of Oddpodz, an online community for the creative class.

She's known by many as the Branding Diva. Her wit and style are both inspiring and insightful. She reignites excitement in her audiences, realizing they often get bogged down with the operational aspects of business, and lose sight of keeping up with their brands and their customers. She lights a fire under them, empowers them to be fearless, and awakens the sleeping branding professional in them.

Post has worked with diverse organizations to develop their unique story - and firmly plant it in the minds of clients, colleagues, and customers. Over the course of her career, Post has helped build memorable brands that sell products, moved audiences with compelling advocacy and persuaded public opinion. She's been in the trenches and, as CEO of her online company, she remains on the front lines of branding practice.

She started her first business at the age of 22, built two successful companies - an award-winning ad agency and a legal communication firm specializing in high-stakes litigation - and in 1999, raised millions for a start-up she'd like to forget. But, like she preaches, "what does not kill you adds to your value," she got bit in 2006 by the start-up bug again and founded Oddpodz, an online community for the creative class.

Post has been featured in business and marketing print, broadcast, and online media outlets including: Bloomberg TV, CBS Early Show, The New York Times, The New York Post, NPR, Fast Company, and The Boston Globe. Her work has benefited Fortune 500 organizations and emerging businesses in both consumer and business-to-business sectors.

Post is the author of Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers' Minds, and her work is published internationally. When she's not thinking about branding and business, she's on the tennis courts.

Her client experience includes ACNielsen, American General Life Insurance, American Meat Institute, State Farm Insurance, Chevron, Beauty and Barber Supply Association, UTMB Healthcare Systems, The Executive Committee, Johnson & Johnson, City of Houston, Bank of America, American Express, Mississippi Manufacturers Association, MyMatrixx, Nevada Restaurant Association, Pepsi, Louisiana Foods, Tech Data, Women's Council of Realtors, National Association of Consumer Shows, National Retail Advertising and Marketing Association, and Procter & Gamble.

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