Mark Burgess, co-author of The Social Employee -- a best-seller on How Great Companies Make Social Media Work. He is president of Blue Focus Marketing, a leading Employee Experience (EX) services consultancy, delivering e-learning, employee engagement, content marketing, and social media marketing solutions. He is an experienced digital marketer, content marketing strategist, speaker, blogger, and educator. Mark delivered a TEDx Talk on “The Rise of the Social Employee.” Mark’s career spans marketing, advertising, professional services consulting, and education. Mark has held senior-level marketing roles at PwC, AT&T and McCann. Mark is listed on Forbes as Must-Follow Marketing Minds on Twitter, and is a Top 200 Content Marketing influencer. He is an expert trainer for the American Marketing Association (AMA) delivering Content Marketing workshops. Mark led the PwC Global Web team. At McCann, he headed the flagship L’Oreal account. At AT&T, Mark was in charge of interactive marketing. Mark is an adjunct marketing professor teaching MBA marketing courses at Fairleigh Dickinson University. On the Rutgers Business School faculty for executive education delivering training modules on Content Marketing, Digital Marketing, and Social Media Marketing. Mark is a contributor to Wharton’s Advertising 2020 Project and their book, Beyond Advertising: Creating Value through All Customer Touchpoints. Mark’s article on “Piloting the Future of Social Business – Branding from the Inside Out” was published in Harvard Business Review Italia. He has won two EFFIEs for marketing excellence. Follow him on Twitter @mnburgess, @SocialEmployee, and @BlueFocus.
