Juliette Powell

Topics

Presentations

A Million People in the Room: The Power of Social Networks

Success is Where You Find It

Building a Community through Communication, Peer-Production & Distribution

Expand Your Reach and Influence

Be Authentic and Stick to What You Know

33 Million People in the Room: How Social Networking Can Help Build Successful Businesses and Organizations

The Obama Effect and How it Will Influence Politics, Economics, and Business

Developing the Financial, Cultural and Technological Capital of Your Brand

The Economy: When Markets Decline, the Value of your Relationships Go Up

Summary Profile

Juliette Powell is a media entrepreneur, community catalyst, and author. She has a deep knowledge of the people and technologies at the forefront of social media, and has gained a solid reputation for discovering the latest developments and distilling their social and business implications. Powell's first book, 33 Million People in the Room: How to Create, Influence and Run a Successful Business with Social Networking is a critical success.

She discusses the patterns and practices of successful business leaders who bank on social networking to win.

She is also the co-founder of an innovation forum that connects technology, media, entertainment, and business communities, and the founder her own entertainment company which provides consulting services for new television programming strategies and specialty programming, for corporate, government and new media organizations, including Red Bull, Mozilla, Microsoft, Compaq, Trump International, the United Nations, the Department of Justice, and Nokia.

Other career highlights for Powell involve co-authoring the media section for the United Nations Plan of Action, and assisting in the production of the world-renowned TED Conference. Her company also produces cross-platform content with newsmakers such as Nelson Mandela, Prince Charles, Sir Richard Branson, Steven Spielberg, and Tom Cruise.

A fluently bilingual anglophone Montrealer, Powell made history when she became the first black Miss Canada in 1989 and then represented her country in the Miss Universe Pageant before embarking on her career in television. She worked as a VJ for MusiquePlus and MuchMusic in the 90s, and was also a business reporter for CablePulse 24.

Powell is a high-energy and engaging speaker, who delivers clear explanations and provides useful examples. She shows how business, entertainment, and politics all connect together in the brave, new world of social networking. She points to how U.S. President Barack Obama’s campaign team successfully used social networking to raise money, spread their messages, and mobilize and self-organize volunteers.

Let Juliette Powell reveal the power of connections, the strategies to gain audience, and the best practices to build communities using new tools and techniques. Audiences will be able to apply these valuable lessons to their business and personal brands.

Client Testimonials:

"Juliette Powell reveals the power of connections, the strategies to gain audience and the best practices to build community in this brisk-paced canter through the new tools and techniques for doing business. Real-world examples make a compelling case for her notion that social capital makes sound business sense and when successfully established can translate into capital in the bank."

Deputy Editor, News Interactive, BBC