Best-Selling Author, Digital Analyst, Business Strategist ...

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Best-Selling Author, Digital Analyst, Business Strategist, and New Media Expert

Brian Solis is a well-known digital analyst, business strategist, and futurist and the author of the bestselling books The End of Business as Usual, Engage!, and What's the Future of Business. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, he is also the principal at Altimeter Group. CRM Magazine named Solis an "influential leader of 2010." One of the founding fathers of digital marketing and business social media, he is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders on new media. He was named as part of Silicon Valley's "40 Under 40." In 2012, Billboard Magazine included him in their "Billboard's Twitter 140: The Music Industry Characters You Need to Follow," and Mashable named him one of the "25 Twitter Accounts That Will Make You Smarter." He helps organizations understand and embrace the dynamics defining the rise of social business, including market trends, disruptive technology, and emerging business opportunities.

Through the use of proven frameworks and best practices, he analyzes trends, opportunities, capabilities, and more to align digital initiatives with business priorities and customer expectations. He works with businesses on new media strategies to build bridges between companies and customers, employees, and other important stakeholders. In talks that look from the present to one to three years out, Solis discusses this new connected consumerism and how technology changes how we influence, are influenced, and make decisions.

Widely-Published Expertise. Solis is a prolific author. He co-authored three books: The Seven Success Factors of Social Business Strategy (2013), Putting the Public Back in Public Relations: How Social Media Is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR (2009), and Now Is Gone: A Primer on New Media for Executives and Entrepreneurs (2007). He has also authored four others. What's the Future of Business: Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences (2013), Engage!: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web (foreword by Ashton Kutcher, 2011), The End of Business As Usual: Rewire the Way You Work to Succeed in the Consumer Revolution (foreword by Katie Couric, 2011), and The Art and Science of Blogger Relations (2009). His next book is X: The Experience When Business Meets Design. His book The End Of Business As Usual was named a "Top 10 Business Book" by Publisher's Weekly, and Engage is regarded as the industry reference guide for developing effective social business and social media strategies. Solis has also written the foreword for several other best-sellers.

Solis' ideas and perspectives are often cited in the press, including the New York Times, the Guardian, the Wall Street Journal, and more. He hosts the Webby Award-winning web show Revolution, and his blog, , is among the world's leading business and marketing online resources. It ranks among the top 1% of all blogs tracked by Technorati. Solis is also ranked as one of the leading voices in the AdAge Power 150 index of worldwide marketing bloggers, and he actively contributes to FastCompany, Businessweek, AdAge, Harvard Business Review, and Mashable.

Research and Specialties. Solis has studied and influenced the effects of emerging media on business, marketing, and culture. He has also created several infographics that are widely praised in the business community, including The Conversation Prism, The Brandsphere, Twitterverse, Social Compass, and Behaviorgraphics. Prior to joining Altimeter Group, Brian founded FutureWorks.

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