Speaking

I try to speak at around 10-15 conferences a year. Outside of conferences, I may be available for smaller regional events, or workshops to talk on building a sustainable business, digital marketing, digital product strategy, and product development.

Topics

Product Management
WordPress Theme and Plugin Development
Digital Marketing
Inbound Marketing
Digital Product Strategy
Building an Online Audience
Team Building and Culture
Process and Change Management

If you’re looking for further information check out the posts and previous topics I’ve spoken on. I’ve included them below for easy access.

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Previous Speaking Engagements

WordCamp Raleigh 2019

WordCamp Sacramento 2017 Slides

The audio in this recording isn’t great, but a great video at how to grow your email lists for your blog.

WordCamp Ann Arbor 2016 Slides

Inbound Marketing is the new buzz word these days. People want to create an audience, brand for themselves. Learn through proven techniques to discover which tools you can use to help accelerate your blog to create the audience you want for the products you sell. You’ll hear first war torn stories and walk away with an action plan of how to get started with an actionable plan to build an audience.

WordCamp Dallas / Fort Worth 2016 Slides

Come learn how a large company with $90+ million in revenue approaches ways to build a hosting platform for a CMS that powers over 25% of the web, WordPress. We’ll deep dive into how we approached multiple iterations into building a Managed WordPress offering and how we are continuing to position against our rivals.

WordCamp Atlanta 2016 Slides

In this talk, you will learn how to use WP-cli, a command-line tool, for developing locally, as well as deploying a site to a staging or production server, and finally how you can use it to automate a lot of the processes for creating your own managed WordPress hosting. This talk is designed for developers or those familiar with command-line and basic linux scripting.