MarketingProfs Corporate Training provides state-of-the-art learning programs for the modern marketing team.
We help many of the largest brands in the world develop their marketing skills and talent. Our thought-leadership team includes:
Allen Weiss, Founder/CEO
Allen founded MarketingProfs in 2000 and provides the strategic direction for the company. He's also a Professor of Marketing at the University of Southern California. Prior to MarketingProfs, he served as a professor at Stanford University and a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs. His consulting expertise is in the marketing of high technology products and Internet marketing. He has consulted with leading technology companies, including Texas Instruments, Intel, IBM, and Hughes Space and Communications. He has also taught executive education classes at Stanford and USC. Allen holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Santa Barbara and a PhD in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin.
Ann Handley, Chief Content Officer
Ann heads up all of the content at MarketingProfs. She is a veteran of creating and managing digital content to build relationships for organizations and individuals. Ann is the author of the Wall Street Journal bestseller Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (September 2014, Wiley) and co-author of the best-selling book on content marketing, Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (2011, Wiley). She is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs and is also a columnist for Entrepreneur magazine; a LinkedIn Influencer; a keynote speaker, mom, and writer. She holds a BA from Simmons College, Boston.
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone, Director of Product Strategy, Training
Kerry O'Shea Gorgone oversees the sale and distribution of MarketingProfs' premium training products to individual marketers and corporations. She's also a speaker, writer, attorney and educator. Kerry hosts the weekly Marketing Smarts podcast for MarketingProfs and is a contributing writer for numerous sites, including Huffington Post and Entrepreneur. Previously, Kerry taught graduate and undergraduate courses in marketing and law at Bentley University and Full Sail University.
Felicia Isoldi, Senior Program Manager
Felicia Isoldi oversees programming for training content at MarketingProfs. Previously, she worked at United Business Media in New York, one of the world's leading tradeshow organizers, as head of attendee and exhibitor marketing. Felicia's expertise is B2B marketing and building customer relationships. She develops top quality training content to help marketers and companies bridge the marketing skills gap.