Mel Carson – Leadership and Personal Branding Expert | Consultant & Keynote Speaker | Digital Marketing Strategist
Mel Carson is the Founder and CEO of Delightful Communications, a B2B Technology Marketing Agency based in Seattle and London.
He is a Digital Marketing Strategist, Personal and Leadership Branding Strategist and Expert, Consultant and Coach, Keynote Public Speaker, Author and Business Columnist.
For nearly twenty years, he’s has been inspiring companies and individuals around the world to understand and make the most of the explosion in use of digital media and technology.
After 7 years at Microsoft as their Digital Marketing Evangelist, Mel left in the summer of 2012 to start Seattle-based consultancy – Delightful Communications – which helps businesses and executives successfully apply marketing strategies that focus on Social Media, Influencer Marketing, Content Marketing, Digital PR and Personal Branding.
He’s spoken at over a hundred conferences and events globally and has also lectured on MBA, MSc and online marketing courses, advising syllabus decision makers at Cranfield School of Management and Birkbeck College – part of London University – and the University of Washington.
Described as creative, compelling, emotional, engaging, visionary, and actionable, Mel’s speeches will resonate right through the ranks of any company. His book, Pioneers of Digital, has been a critical success on both sides of the Atlantic and has just been translated and published in China and Korea.
Previous to his foray into digital evangelism, Mel was an actor and singer (he played the young Joe Cocker in a smash hit video with Catherine Deneuve in 1997), and it’s this background that has helped him establish a unique blend of insight and entertainment that carries audiences with him on a whirlwind journey from digital beginnings to where we are today and what the future holds.