Marketing Keynote Speakers
Need a guest speaker in marketing or entrepreneurship?
Sponsorship Areas: Southern California
Are you or your clients looking to take business to the next level? Our experts have proven marketing methods and the passion you need to elevate your brand, attract new customers and increase your visibility.
Elevate My Brand (EMB) has worked with some of the top companies in the world to elevate their finance, food, retail, law and service brands globally. Whether you're in need of an energetic presentation on brand protection, a clear and comedic take on content, or a powerful keynote on events, our leadership team gives you the keys you need to expand your vision and implement new strategies.
"The most important thing about what I do is help business owners understand what marketing is and how it's crucial to their business success."
— Laurel Mintz
We offer presentations in the following formats. Our team members are also available as panel guests, and Laurel is a skilled panel moderator.
Breakouts
Keynotes
Trainings
Webinars
Seminars (half day or full)
Keynote speakers and presentations
1. Marketing isn’t a dirty word
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands"Marketing" is a broad and amorphous term that covers everything from PR to advertising to branding, and everyone thinks they’re an expert. Learn how to cut through the clutter and develop a core marketing plan that won’t just collect dust on your shelf.
2. How to make other people pay for your marketing
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
The world of corporate sponsorship is a long, challenging road—one that most people don’t understand. Learn how to develop a corporate sponsorship deck, a wish list and a plan of attack to develop long-term strategic partnerships that mitigate marketing costs for your brand.
3. How to walk, talk and act like a business
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
Most entrepreneurs/start-ups are just eking by, watching every penny and wondering why they aren’t growing. Learn how to take the right steps for your business, both legally and through marketing.
4. Creating a successful and stunning event
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, consumer product brands
Events are always a scary thing. Will anyone show up? Will we make any money? Learn how to guarantee a successful event, both in turnout and revenue, and breathe a sigh of relief when you start seeing ticket sales roll in.
5. Smart marketing wins over investors
Best fit audience: startup founders looking for funding
Laurel Mintz also runs ESG fund, Fabric VC, and has vetted hundreds of startups based on their financials and marketing potential. Learn how to market your startup for success and catch the eyes of venture capitalists.
6. Captivate investors with an elevator pitch
Best fit audience: startup founders looking for funding
Investors look at thousands of pitch decks. So, how do you stand out? Learn how to present yourself and your idea with a pitch deck that wows investors.
7. Investing beyond your portfolio
Best fit audience: new and seasoned VC investors
Your investment portfolio may be diverse in terms of sectors or assets. But are you funding diverse founders and ideas? Learn how your money can impact social and environmental crises and make larger returns at the same time.
8. Solving social media burnout without posting less
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses
The burnout is real. Whether you're a solo entrepreneur who has to do it all or a social media manager trying to keep up with a hundred platforms, this presentation lowers your stress levels with actionable steps to do more with less.
9. Grow engagement with automated retargeting
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses
The brands that win are the brands that build relationships. And if you're only building new relationships but not managing ongoing ones, you've got a serious leak in your funnel—but you can solve it with strong, automated retargeting campaigns.
10. AI and automation for female founders
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, female founders
Women entrepreneurs have always had to do more with less. That's why AI and automation can be our best friend. Learn how new tools can power your marketing processes so your women-owned business can continue to outperform the competition.
1. What it really means to be "engaging" in marketing
Best fit audience: small businesses, content marketers, social media managersAs both a trained public speaker and skilled content marketer, Cody guides you through Aristotle’s rhetorical triangle and other techniques you can use to engage audience—and how you can leverage those tactics to learn and evolve your brand.
2. Take pride in your marketing: connecting with LGTBQ+ consumers
Best fit audience: consumer product brands, small and medium businesses, value-based businesses
Connecting with queer consumers isn’t all unicorns and rainbows, particularly in times when LGBTQ+ discrimination is at an all-time high. If you want to target the queer customers in your industry, you need a specific, respectful and tactful strategy.
3. Stop asking for "more diversity" in your marketing content
Best fit audience: content marketers, small and medium businesses, value-based businesses
Diversity is important, so why should you stop asking for more of it in your marketing content? Diversity is a value—which means it’s an outcome of practices and policies—not simply “content.” If you have to ask for it, there may be a problem. So, what should you do instead?
4. Values come from within: humanizing your intracompany language
Best fit audience: small and medium businesses, value-based businesses, human resources
The next generations of consumers consider authenticity “the most important value” for a brand. If you want to be genuine, you need to examine your brand from the inside out. Cody will show you how to humanize your intracompany language to connect more deeply with your audience.
5. Comedy, curse words, and the quest for authenticity in content
Best fit audience: small and medium businesses, content marketers, social media managers
Don’t “F around” and find out when it comes to comedy or curse words in your brand’s content marketing. For both, it’s all about authenticity and strategy. As a marketing expert, comedy writer and improv performer, Cody will walk your brand through the intricacies.
6. The tech brands that win big have human marketing
Best fit audience: small and medium businesses, tech brands
Oftentimes, tech brands think their messaging needs to be as complicated as a motherboard, but at the end of the day, your audience (and your team) is still human. Here's how to bridge the gap and boost your brand connection.
7. Branding: who you say you are vs. who others say you are
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, startups, small and medium businesses
Your brand is 50% who you say you are and 50% who others say you are; thus, branding is the strategic act of ensuring those perceptions are one and the same. This presentation offers a new perspective on your brand identity and how to manage it.
8. Less bang, more buck with strategic partnerships
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, community managers
If you could maximize your reach and impact without spending any more money, would you? Well, you can! Strategic partnerships with non-competitive brands are the secret sauce to expanding reach, building trust and increasing conversions.
9. Do you need content, or do you need clarity?
Best fit audience: entrepreneurs, small and medium businesses, content marketers
Creating content without gaining clarity is like going to the grocery store without a list. Don't waste time and money by skipping the important first step to smart marketing: discovery.
10. Multipurpose content with the right martech stack
Best fit audience: small and medium businesses, content marketers, social media managers
Content creation is no joke. So many small- to medium-sized businesses spend lots of time making content for it to be used once. Don't be one of those brands. Leverage the right technology to make the most of your marketing efforts.
What people are saying
"You delivered a great presentation, so full of knowledge, zest and vigor. Thank you so much! During and following the meeting, I was enthusiastically shouting across my hallway to my wife and business partner, 'You’ve got to hear this! It’s great!' I’ve attended dozens of webinars trying to understand how to unpack the marketing + fundraising puzzle for my startup, none have so clearly and cohesively explained how to win as yours."
Anonymous
Entrepreneur
"I know we depend on AI in so many things in digital marketing, especially social. (Admit you have.) However, AI can never replace social engagement. Let’s not forget the human touch. Knowing when [to engage] is as important as knowing how... Thanks Cody H. Owens for this presentation."
Romeo Talento
Digital Experience Marketing Manager
"Elevate My Brand has served as a catalyst in the growth of my accounting firm over the past several years. And when it was time to re-brand due to a partnership split, EMB seamlessly transitioned my firm to its new brand. Laurel Mintz has built so much more than a branding firm with EMB… She is my executive coach, event planner, creative thinker and branding expert all rolled into one. EMB is an integral part of my team and I highly recommend making them a part of yours."
Adam Jones
CEO, Jones & Associates
"I wanted to thank you all for the incredible event! We were blown away by it all. The decor, entertainment, food and service. It was all so wonderful and we have heard from everyone that this was a really special and unique event. Thank you and your whole team for your work, diligence, and the quality of the production. Yay team!"
Sabrina Merage
Principal, Echo Capital Group
"From the first press kit to the launch of our first location to all the rest, I’d like to thank the Elevate My Brand team for all their hard work and passion for the project as they helped us build our own brand from scratch. It was such a pleasure to work with their bright and thoughtful team, and I’d highly recommend them to anyone else looking to 'elevate' their brand."
Tobias Miller
Co-Founder, Brätworks
"It is with great pleasure, and a debt of gratitude, that I recommend Laurel Mintz and her team at Elevate My Brand. When Laurel and her team signed on to my vision to create a massive, county wide innovation celebration, no one knew that it would grow to encompass 160 events over 22 days. EMB's excellence and dedication were instrumental in creating the juggernaut that is Innovate.LA. Through their digital marketing strategy and leadership we were able to achieve a staggering 43K hashtags used and 120 million total impressions for #LAIW2015.”
Chris Rico
Innovation Director, LAEDC
“We engaged Laurel Mintz and Elevate My Brand to help launch our new fundraiser in Los Angeles in August 2015. In short order, Laurel just 'got us;' it felt like we had been working together for years. She always came through, over-delivered, was thoroughly professional, advocated for us with partners or vendors if ever needed and was just plain fun to work with. I couldn’t recommend her or her company more.”
Matt Feldman
Senior Director of Marketing, Prevent Child Abuse America
"Thank you for helping us plan our 50th Anniversary gala! You were not only extremely helpful during the pre-planning stages, but also incredible with on-site coordination. Your attention to every detail was top notch. By all accounts, it was a highly successful event and we couldn’t have done it without you!"
Cindy Burton
President/CEO, PathPoint
"A year ago we were a small company, with a better mouse trap, competing against giants. EMB helped us build the brand we needed to compete at the top levels. With their help we’ve doubled in size and are poised to double again."
Rob Kent
CEO, O2 Concepts
"Elevate My Brand did more than manifest their name into reality for me, they created a family in which I felt comfortable to grow as an entrepreneur, and also share the labor of conceiving my idea into reality. My company, Standing Light, is the deepest expression of myself, it came to life through my personal trials and errors, so it went beyond just an idea, it was something deeply personal, like my own child. EMB - Laurel and her incredible team - helped me raise this child into a full fledged expression that is on its way to function by its own, and where I feel safe to let it spread its wings."
Leyla Salvadé
Founder & CEO, Standing Light
"Thank you for your incredible presentation today! I definitely have marketing goals, I just didn't know where to start. You changed all of that today and delivered FAR beyond my expectations! I am so fired up to do my "homework" because your method made sense to me. You have a magnetic personality and it was so easy to listen and learn from you. Elevate My Brand gained a fan today."
Jeana Findley, President
Clinical Solutions International
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