Instructors
Core Curriculum Instructor
Robert Rose
Chief Content Advisor, Content Marketing Institute
Robert is the founder and Chief Strategy Officer of The Content Advisory – the consulting and advisory group of The Content Marketing Institute. As a coach and strategist, Robert has worked with marketers at more than 500 companies including global brands such as adidas, Roche, Salesforce, NASA, and Hilton. Robert is the author of four books. His latest, Content Marketing Strategy, was published by Kogan Page in September 2023, and was called “a rich and much-needed understanding of content marketing” by Professor Philip Kotler.
Robert is also an early-stage investor and advisor to a number of technology startups, serving on the advisory boards of a number of companies, such as DivvyHQ, and BrandLens.
Elective Curriculum Instructors
Andy Crestodina
Strategic Director, Orbit Media
Andy Crestodina is the co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer of Orbit Media, an award-winning 50-person digital agency in Chicago. Over the past 20 years, Andy has provided digital marketing advice to 1000+ businesses. He speaks at national marketing conferences and writes for big marketing blogs. He’s also the author of Content Chemistry: The Illustrated Handbook for Content Marketing.
Andy has written 500+ articles on content strategy, search engine optimization, influencer marketing, visitor psychology and Analytics.
Andrew Hanelly
Partner, Revmade
Andrew has spent his career developing and executing audience development and revenue growth programs using content marketing strategies for Fortune 500 brands, world-renowned media companies, associations and nonprofits. His work has been featured at SXSW, The Economist and AdAge. Andrew was also the recipient of the Content Council’s inaugural Rising Star award.
Nancy Harhut
CCO, HBT Marketing
Nancy Harhut is passionate about the impact of behavioral science on marketing. An Online Marketing Institute Top 40 Digital Strategist, Top 50 B2B Marketing Influencer, and Social Top 50 email marketing leader, she has created integrated campaigns for startups as well as some of the world’s biggest brands.
While she works with both B2C and B2B clients, she was especially tickled to be called “the Energizer Bunny of B2B copywriting” (Adweek, 2020).
A sought-after, top-ranked speaker, Harhut has shared her passion with audiences in London, Sydney, Madrid, Moscow and all over the US. She is known for her interesting and actionable insights that focus on applying behavioral science to marketing, and is pleased her session attendees tweet things like: “@nharhut one of my favorite sessions at SXSW! Thank you for all the valuable gems you shared with us today. Incredible presentation!”
Zontee Hou
Director of Strategy, Convince & Convert
Zontee Hou is a passionate advisor and teacher of communications. She’s the founder of Brooklyn-based agency Media Volery and co-lead of consulting for Convince & Convert, founded by industry leader Jay Baer. She brings more than a decade of experience in the marketing industry to her work, and her work has garnered multiple awards including several PR News Platinum Awards and a Forrester Groundswell Award. In 2018, she was named one of TopRank’s 50 most influential content marketers, and she’s been a judge for the Content Marketing Awards for four years running.
Zontee has served as a faculty lecturer at Columbia University and adjunct lecturer at the City College of New York, bringing her unique ability to draw connections between marketing methodology and business goals to students as well as clients. In a previous life, Zontee was also a podcaster, a crafts & hobbies personality, and has been seen on PBS and the Martha Stewart Show.
Viveka von Rosen
Chief Visibility Officer, Vengreso
Viveka von Rosen is a co-founder and Chief Visibility Officer at Vengreso, the world’s largest digital sales transformation company. Known as the @LinkedInExpert, she’s author of the best-selling “LinkedIn Marketing: An Hour a Day” & “LinkedIn: 101 Ways to Rock Your Personal Brand”. She is a contributing expert to LinkedIn’s official Sales and Marketing blogs and their “Sophisticated Marketer’s” Guides, and is often called on to contribute to publications like Fast Company, Forbes, Money, Selling Power, Entrepreneur, Social Media Examiner, etc.
Viveka takes the LinkedIn and social selling experience over the past 14 years and transforms it into engaging and informational digital sales strategies, tactics, and tools including personal branding, social selling training, and content for sales. When she’s not doing that, she’s either diving, hang-gliding or hiking the trails near her Colorado home. (Basically anywhere without cell reception.)