Joseph Grano

Business keynote speaker for hire Joseph Grano believes in thinking big. This expansive vision has led him to where he is today, at the helm of a successful marketing agency in Southwest Florida that has clients across the country and around the world. It also guided his path as he became one of those rare individuals who have made a successful transition from corporate leader to entrepreneur.

With more than 25 years of comprehensive marketing and public relations experience, he has held executive positions at two public health systems, a health information organization and a pharmaceutical technology firm, in one case leading marketing efforts that grew revenue from $40 million to $120 million.

In 2005, he founded Next-Mark, LLC, leveraging his years of managing award-winning corporate marketing and communications. There, he has built a practice that boasts a client base representing some of the world’s most noted brands in healthcare, retail and technology, among other industries.

A graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo, he also has an M.B.A. from the F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College in Massachusetts.

He co-authored “The Healthcare Marketing Professional’s Business Manual” and has been widely published in healthcare communications. A selected member of the Forbes Agency Council, he also is a regular contributor to www.Forbes.com.

In addition to being a sought-after professional speaker, executive performance coach and facilitator, he also serves as an adjunct professor of business at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

Joseph’s speaking topics include: Traits that Define High-Performing Marketing Organizations, Marketing Thought Leadership, Social Media Synergy, Entrepreneurship, Rethinking Retail Marketing, The Case for Marketing Morality, Insights into Your Marketing Communications Roadmap, Healthcare Marketing Strategy, and Communications Team Building.

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