In Your Business With Umsl | Business

Host: Ben Leigh Produced by: Ben Leigh and Cody Goodrich About the Speaker: Kevin is not your typical businessperson. He is an artist, a strategist and stakeholder capitalist. He has been a student and practitioner of the arts, business philosophy, and organizational behavior for over fifteen years. His clients include Apple, Beats by Dre, Microsoft, Logitech, FDA, American Red Cross, ChildFund International, FOX Networks, HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, Microsoft, Cox Communications, Abbott Nutrition, Schreiber Foods, Procter & Gamble; as well as small and midsize start-ups; and boutique to global agencies. He loves working with teams that are curious about options and possibilities for innovating, solving problems and imagining new opportunities. About MDMC: This year MDMC is going virtual! It will be an online conference consisting of two parts:  FREE LIVE 2-day virtual summit Wednesday, May 20th and Thursday, May 21st.  During this event, we will be live-streaming 7 breakout sessions each day led b

Host: David Schmidt Produced by: David Schmidt and Cody Goodrich About the Speaker: Joe Sullivan is an Industrial Marketing Consultant of 10+ years and cofounder of the St. Louis-based industrial marketing agency Gorilla 76. Joe's (and Gorilla's) expertise lies in helping midsized B2B manufacturers identify, attract, engage and drive sales opportunities with ideal-fit customers. In addition to co-leading the agency, Joe serves as the company sales and marketing lead and consults Gorilla's clients on both sales and marketing strategy. Much of his time is dedicated to speaking, writing and creating video content on behalf of the agency. Outside of work, Joe likes to cook, watch his Green Bay Packers and spend time with his wife and two kids. Joe is a dual-degreed graduate (business and art) of Washington University in St. Louis. About MDMC: This year MDMC is going virtual! It will be an online conference consisting of two parts:  FREE LIVE 2-day virtual summit Wednesday, May 20th and Thursday, May 21st.  Du

On this episode we speak with the President & CEO Cheryl Jones along with Kayla and Sydney who have both taken part in the program. Girls Inc. is a nonprofit organization that helps the development of girls aging from 6-18 years of age. Girls Inc was created to be “Inspiring All Girls to be Strong, Smart and Bold” with over 84 sites in 350 cities and included over 150,000 girls in the United States and Canada.  Hosted by: Josh Hoester & Tina Doan Produced by: Cody Goodrich

On this episode we speak with Sophia Chappuis and Madi King Erger about the International Business Career Conference that is held at UMSL. They tell us about how IBCC got started and where they are now compared to when the conference first began. They also tell us about the amazing opportunities and how students can get involved with the conference.  Hosted by: David Schmidt & Josh Hoester Produced by: Cody Goodrich

On this episode we speak with Robin Kimberlin who is the Director of Student Social Services, a Co-Chair of  the UMSL CARE team, and who created and runs the UMSL Triton Pantry. We talk with Robin about the on-campus food pantry, known as the Triton Pantry. She explains how the idea began, how students can be involved with the pantry, how students in need can use the pantry, and the importance of providing resources for those that are in need. Hosted by: Connor Peters Produced by: Kelsi Stulce-Hull, Giovani Gomes, and Kalynn Clinton

On this episode we speak with UMSL Business Alumni Jennifer Oertli and Gabby Buck. They are both graduates but have graduated at different times and gone on very different paths. We talk with Jeniffer and Gabby about why they chose UMSL Business, how UMSL Business helped them get to where they are today, the connections they have made, and the importance of knowing that everyone has their own path to success. Hosted by: Kelsi Stulce-Hull Produced by: Connor Peters, Giovani Gomes, and Kalynn Clinton

On this episode we speak with entrepreneur Alex Zvibleman. Alex is one of the finalists of UMSL's EQ Accelerator, the first entrepreneurship graduate, and the founder of Seize the Bean coffee shop which is to open near UMSL campus. We talk with Alex about how UMSL helped him get to where he is today, what goes in to being an entrepreneur, and some of his learning experiences and successes. Hosted by: Kalynn Clinton Produced by: Connor Peters, Giovani Gomes, and Kelsi Stulce-Hull

The world is becoming more and more globalized and many students choose to go abroad to take some classes in a foreign university and learn new cultures at the same time. In this podcast students of a summer school at Hochschule Bremen, Germany, are discussing the advantages of taking classes abroad, living in a new environment and meeting people of different cultural backgrounds. Hosted by: Ikram Moussaid Eldrissi and Tania  Schreiber Produced by: Vaibhav Chitalia, Ikram Moussaid Eldrissi, Tania Schreiber, and Cole Thomas  

Host: Sydney Wilhelm Produced: Sydney Wilhelm and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: As a web designer and business efficiency coach who runs multiple businesses, Yvonne has over 10 years of experience organizing, strengthening, and streamlining businesses into profitability and success. She was born and raised in Germany where she caught the entrepreneurial bug early on, working in her parents’ business and owning her own pub by the tender age of 22. Yvonne left the safety n

Host: Michaela Prowell Produced: Michaela Prowell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: UI/UX designer. Content strategist. Web developer. Expert snacker. - Featured on Forbes, Inc.com, Entrepreneur, Yahoo Finance, NPR, TNW, & more - Founded & grew multiple media properties to multi-million person audiences (Explica, Draw Science) - Content creation & strategy consulting for Elsevier, American Scientist Magazine, Cellucor, Soylent, Fortune/Inc. 1000 co's, and Y-Com

Host: Grant Cordell Produced: Grant Cordell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Vanessa is an award winning marketing consultant, a social media and email strategist and a dynamic speaker who travels the country helping small businesses understand and leverage the power of email + social media to 10x their online visibility.  A one-woman show, Vanessa built vanessa-cabrera.com to a thriving business in just 3 years! Her creative mind and out of the box thinking continues to

Host: Grant Cordell Produced: Grant Cordell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Tyler Kelley is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategist at SLAM! Agency, a digital storytelling agency that helps brands realize and reach their highest potential. With 18+ years in the results-driven marketing space, Tyler has earned a reputation for anticipating user trends and developing proactive strategies to drive brands forward. As a speaker, he has shared the stage with digital brands like

Host: Tim Bodi Produced: Tim Bodi and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Shane Freeman has 20 years of experience living in the center of a sales, marketing & technology Venn diagram. He is currently the principal at okapi, a SaaS startup built to measure, monitor and manage experiential marketing programs and is the founder of the SaaS Field Manual and Eureka Consulting Group where he helps emerging SaaS and professional service companies build strategy, process & alig

Host: Tim Bodi Produced: Tim Bodi and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Kevin is not your typical businessperson. He is an artist, a strategist and stakeholder capitalist. He has been a student and practitioner of the arts, business philosophy, and organizational behavior for over fifteen years.  His clients include Apple, Beats by Dre, Microsoft, Logitech, FDA, American Red Cross, ChildFund International, FOX Networks, HBO, Showtime, Comedy Central, Microsoft, Cox Communicat

Host: Grant Cordell Produced: Grant Cordell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Steph Nissen is a Partner and Head of Digital Operations at Atomic Revenue, a revenue operations firm in St. Louis aligning your organization’s sales, marketing, and customer efforts. Steph works on creating and managing digital strategies & programs including KPI development and analytics, web design/development, marketing automation, social media, email marketing, paid search, and more. She

Host: Austin Robertson Produced: Austin Robertson and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: As an executive brand strategist and concept developer for the travel industry, Stefan Pettersson has offered his knowledge and skills to several entrepreneurs. Stefan also works as a supervisor for independent, small and middle sized business owners, he has taught entrepreneurs strategic marketing, market communication, sales and concept development. Having worked as a marketing director f

Host: Michaela Prowell Produced: Michaela Prowell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Katelyn Brower is the head of Dun & Bradstreet's Global Social Media and Employee Advocacy Programs. She owns and manages the social media website Getsocialwithme.net. When she isn't scrolling through social media, she is coaching lacrosse, going to Orange Theory classes, or watching football.

Host: Austin Robertson Produced: Austin Robertson and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Jennifer Radke is an international speaker, author, and strategic business leader with over 15 years of experience in sales leadership. The real-world solutions she brings to the stage stem from her experience coaching, developing and training employees and have made her a highly sought-after speaker for businesses of all sizes. Before purchasing the National Institute for Social Media (NIS

Host: Michaela Prowell Produced: Michaela Prowell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Chris Strub is a leading voice in the millennial social good space. In 2017, Chris visited Salvation Army locations in 25 states in 38 days along the 6200-mile #FightForGoodTour, raising thousands of dollars as a national Red Kettle Ambassador. Chris is the author of '50 States, 100 Days: The Book,' about his solo, social media-powered adventure to volunteer with youth-related organizations

Host: Grant Cordell Produced By: Grant Cordell and Cody Goodrich About MDMC: The Midwest Digital Marketing Conference is the largest digital marketing conference in the Midwest. Last year MDMC18 set attendance records with nearly 2,000 marketers and friends. There were over 130 speakers including BuzzFeed, Pandora, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Refinery29, Pinterest, GoDaddy, Under Armour, LinkedIn, HubSpot, Google, Yahoo, Nielsen and more. MDMC18 featured over 100 sessions across nine tracks: Data, Digital, Social Media, Creative, E-commerce, Innovation, academic/student, Tech and entrepreneurial. About the Speaker: Alex Cruz is the CEO of PenPath, a marketing analytics firm specialized in connecting and visualizing data for brands and agencies. With over 9 years of industry experience, Alex has worked with businesses of all sizes from growing startups to agencies and Fortune 500 companies. His background gives him a unique perspective that can help industry professionals understand and use all their mark