SPEAKING + TEACHING

I teach and speak on the business, strategy, and real-world practice of modern marketing.

My work is built around a simple idea: students and professionals need more than marketing vocabulary. They need to understand how communication work functions inside real organizations, how budgets are made, how agencies and clients work together, how media decisions are evaluated, and how strategy becomes execution. See a list of teaching topics, faculty roles, and select lectures below!

Teaching Areas

  • Strategic communication as a business function

  • Agency economics, pricing, scopes, retainers, staffing, and profitability

  • Media planning, digital advertising, analytics, and campaign measurement

  • Marketing operations, from insight to strategy to execution to analysis

  • AI’s impact on marketing, compliance, creative work, and agency-client relationships

  • Financial services marketing, trust, regulation, and customer behavior

  • Career readiness for students entering agencies, media, public relations, and marketing roles

FACULTY ROLES

  • Faculty / Instructor, American Bankers Association Bank Marketing School, 2017 to present

  • Faculty / Instructor, Southeastern School of Banking, 2020 to 2025

  • Faculty / Instructor, North Carolina Bankers Association, 2025 to present

  • Instructor / Lecturer, North Carolina Small Business and Technology Development Center, selected programs

SELECT TALKS

  • “Strategic Marketing: Eliminating Five Critical Blind Spots”

  • “The Modern Bank Marketing Department”

  • “The Magic of Marketing Automation Is Doing More With Less”

  • “Your Data Opportunities Defined”

  • “With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility”

  • “How to Transform Communication With Data-Driven Techniques”

  • “How Organizations Prepare for the Next Era of Technology”

Interested in a guest lecture, class session, workshop, keynote, or panel?