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From our December 3rd Earned Revenue and Cause Marketing Workshop, we heard:
The workshop helped me expand my horizons regarding what is possible in business.
It really helped me broaden my thinking and gave me a hands-on ways to practice the lesson before leaving.
Good for getting you to think outside the box.
Presenters think big and inspired me to think creative and strategically simultaneously and find different ways to build cause marketing relationships.
Recommendations
At the intersection of entrepreneurism and the non-profit sector, Stephen Brand stands tall. I’m incredibly impressed with his ability to offer thoughtful insights and practical guidance from his great wealth of academic study and real-life experience. When faced with a big challenge (and these days there are PLENTY!), Steve is one of the very first people I call.
Matt Lehrman, Alliance for Audience
Stephen brings an enormous passion for doing really ground breaking work with significant intellect, insight and innovation.
Roy Shafer, Former CEO, COSI
Stephen is one of the most innovative and creative people I’ve worked with. His energy is always high and he believes all things are possible and is willing to work to find a way. A very small percent of people have the visionary personality trait. Stephen is one of them.
Doug Kohl, President/CEO, Akron Area YMCA
Stephen is a walking, talking, real life innovator. He excels at asking thoughtful and penetrating questions; challenging himself and those around him to view and assess situations from a range of perspectives; and developing totally unique, powerful, and exciting visions for what is possible. Even better, he then develops the implementable path to achieve that vision.
David Akers, Celeritas Limited
Skills in identifying standard business methods and practices which can be applied in non-profit/non-capitalized settings (this is really valuable – McKinsey and others are not skilled at this).
Deep tropism toward networking with professionals across disciplines and industries, making you a “go to”resource for out-of-the box thinking, or unusual connections.
Marilyn Hoyt, Former President and CEO, New York Hall of Science
Stephen is a pleasure and an inspiration to work with — he leverages an ability to assess organizational goals and surrounding market contexts into strategic roadmaps that not are not only creative but uniquely pragmatic. Stephen’s gifts for identifying untapped revenue streams, paving new market frontiers and mapping implementation into do-able increments combine to inspire teams to excellence and accelerated market growth.
Ebie Holst, Consultant, OneCommunity
John’s greatest value to clients is his focus on ‘the desired results’ and his approach of ‘starting with the end in mind.’ He asks questions and keeps on developing creative alternative approaches to challenges. Additionally, John has a fantastic ability to see things from high above and identify potential roadblocks long before they become a hinderance to the successful completion of the project. This is all done with a sense of humor, understanding and patience.
Keith Ward, Principal-Creative Director, Eyeriss Creative
I’ve worked with John as a senior consultant and shoulder-to-shoulder on a number of projects. Top qualities: Great Results, Expert, High Integrity.
Sean Branagan, President/Founder, Communigration, Inc.
John leverages event programs extremely well for branding, business development, and sales. He appreciates and takes advantage of the full range of opportunities that an event provides, as well as the power of relationships over time. He is passionate about business and his interests all the time, and his energy, intelligence and enthusiasm are magnetic.
Elmer Bartek, Account Director, CA
John has energy and passion as well as a quick mind. He was a tireless advocate for the New England Business and Technology Association and really worked hard to maximize our experience as sponsors, and to take full advantage of our relationship with the association. He was fully committed to the organization and our success and continued to develop opportunities and interactions that served our goals.
Trip Kucera, Public Relations Manager, Sonic Software (Progress Software)
