Community Builder, Strategist & Leader enabling customer success! Extensive B2B and B2C experience driving global teams in community management, support operations, business development and product management. A master network-builder who brings people together to drive advocacy, adoption and operational efficiencies. My passion for community building resides in my ability to connect on a personal level with customers to drive business results. Taking on new challenges with my analytical skills to strategize on achieving business goals and results is very rewarding. I enjoy the detective work with process to constantly look for incremental improvements in day to day operations. Community has emerged as the horizontal function that serves executives across multiple verticals. Have you considered delivering value across my MSEE model for Community in your business? What are the four MSEE verticals and what value does community provide to each vertical? Marketing-->Advocacy. Your top customers are the most passionate about your brand and those in community can be harnessed to drive advocacy. Support-->Deflection. Well run communities create answers and solutions that drive support defection. Education-->Content. Communities create great content that allow your customers to learn and use your products more rapidly leading to greater adoption. Engineering->Innovation. Your top customers are the biggest users of your products and in many cases have the best ideas to make your products and services even better. I am passionate about staying connected to people both professionally and in my personal life. When traveling I regularly reach out to my network to stay connected. Outside of work, I am an aspiring super-dad and avid tennis player. Very fortunate to captain my men's tennis team to fourth place at the USTA National Championships in Indian Wells, CA in 2013. Let's discuss how I can help you unlock the complete portfolio of community value to deliver a great customer experience for your brand.

I've been working in professional community building for 20yrs+ since founding Econsultancy (a community for marketers learning about digital marketing) back in 1999 and, more recently, Guild, a platform for professional communities and networking. 

Skilled in business relations, digital marketing, sales process management, event organising, partnership development as well as customer support, I’ve been lucky enough to experience I wide range of operations within a fast-moving startup.

Switch Education is committed to learner-centred approaches to digital education by helping learning professionals deliver the best learning experiences and learning outcomes possible. Our focus is on helping them develop the confidence and competence they need to transition from traditional, classroom learning to contemporary digital education. By putting pedagogy first, we remove the mindset obstacles and behavioural blockages that often prevent the creation of dynamic, online learning content, courses and programs. Our design, research and development processes use our 3-stage change model that is underpinned by Social Cognitive Theory, a proven approach through its core focus on boosting learner and educator self-efficacy beliefs. For over 25 years, I have worked as a management educator and leadership development consultant in Business Schools, Consultancies and Not-for-Profits in Australia, USA, Canada and the UK. Launching Switch fulfills my lifelong dream of giving educators, educational leaders, managers and leaders access to the skills, knowledge and confidence they need to thrive. My approach to pedagogy is strongly influenced by social cognitive theory and its core principle of self-efficacy beliefs. Digital technology provides an amazing opportunity to bring my dream to fruition. I've published articles in leading organisational psychology, HRM and education journals and blog regularly on digital education, management and leadership issues.

Hi, I’m Charles Thiede, CEO & Cofounder at Zapnito. We help businesses power Community-Led Growth by developing our methodology and giving our customers the tools they need to get the most out of their platform. My background is in Healthcare Financial Services, Business Information & Product Development. Looking forward to connecting with you.

My academic roots are in economics and mathematics and my professional roots are in financial analysis. My background has given me a wealth of experience in research, data interpretation and analysis. I have a close attention to detail, innate curiosity and ‘big picture’ awareness that I use to support the rest of the Zapnito team in truly understanding our customers' businesses. My aim is to ensure that both they and we succeed.

Hi, I’m Jon Beer, COO and Co-Founder at Zapnito. I help businesses to power Community-Led Growth by translating Zapnito's vision for curated expert communities into your own business objectives.  I have 22 years experience helping technology businesses to deliver digital experiences, so am always open to sharing my insights on making legitimate knowledge and expertise discoverable over the web. Let’s connect!