Karen Post

Known to many as the "The Branding Diva," Karen Post has built memorable brands that sell and add value to products, advocate causes, and create loyalty. With over three decades of experience, she is recognized as a national speaker, author, and branding practitioner.

Since 2000, she has led Brain Tattoo Branding, a firm that provides creative and strategic services to start, grow, and manage brands. Post is also a sought-after speaker who addresses global audiences, and she was proud to have been the first female American speaker to address the Saudi Arabian Airlines national conference in 2011. She speaks on a variety of topics including branding, entrepreneurship, motivation, and more, highlighting her profound impact on the branding field.

Karen Post started her first business at the age of 22 and built two successful companies: an award-winning ad agency and a legal communications firm specializing in high-stakes litigation, which she led for over 20 years. In 2006, she launched Brain Tattoo Publishing, an online enterprise for creatively charged entrepreneurs, business professionals, and marketers, which now produces digital learning tools in niche markets. Her books "Brand Turnaround: How Brands Gone Bad Returned to Glory and the 7 Game Changers that Made the Difference" and "Brain Tattoos: Creating Unique Brands That Stick in Your Customers' Minds" have received international acclaim.

Throughout her career, Post's work has benefited diverse industries, from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies including Albemarle, ACNielsen, Choice International, Cox Cable and Media, Saudi Arabian Airlines, Chevron, Johnson & Johnson, Bank of America, Xerox, Sara Lee, Pepsi, and Procter & Gamble, along with many emerging businesses, trade associations, professional athletes, entertainers, and politicians. She regularly provides branding commentary on FOX TV and has been featured in other business and marketing print, broadcast, and online media outlets such as FOX, NBC, Bloomberg TV, CBS's Early Show, The New York Times, The New York Post, Fast Company, and The Miami Herald.

In addition to leading her companies, Karen is an advisory board member of the University of Tampa Entrepreneurship Center, a UT Board of Fellows, and a member of Leadership Houston Class VIII Alumni. She also contributes to Fast Company and serves as a Brain Trust Advisor to The Small Business Advocate radio show, solidifying her role as an influential figure in branding and business strategy.