Dan Schawbel, WorkplaceTrends.com

Founder

Dan Schawbel Biography

Dan Schawbel is the Founder of WorkplaceTrends.com, a research and advisory membership service for forward-thinking HR professionals at companies including Nestle, Intuit, Sodexo, Ericsson and Enterprise. He is also the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, a Gen Y consulting firm, which has helped companies like American Express, NBC Universal, Ernst & Young, Deutsche Bank, Oracle, Fidelity and Monster better understand the millennial generation. Through both companies, he’s published over twenty groundbreaking research studies.

Dan is the New York Times bestselling author of Promote Yourself and Me 2.0. He is the founder of the Personal Branding Blog, a Forbes ”Top Website for Your Career” and ranked as the #1 Job Blog by Careerbuilder. He is a columnist at both TIME and FORBES, a syndicated columnist at Metro US, a former BusinessWeek columnist, and has contributed to Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes Magazine, The Guardian, The Globe And Mail, and numerous others. In total, he has written over 1,000 articles covering the workplace, careers, Gen Y, social media and personal branding.

He’s spoken at some of the world’s most prestigious companies including Google, IBM, Time Warner, Oracle, CitiGroup, McGraw-Hill and Siemens, as well as some of the most notable schools, including Harvard Business School, Stanford, Cornell and MIT. Dan was named to the Inc. Magazine 30 Under 30 List in 2010, the Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 List in 2012 and the Forbes Top 20 Social Media Influencer List in 2013. BusinessWeek cites him as someone entrepreneurs should follow on Twitter.

He has been featured in over 1,000 media outlets such as Wired Magazine, “The Today Show” on NBC, “Street Signs” on CNBC, ”The Nightly Business Report” on PBS and ELLE Magazine. Dan has helped companies like American Express, NBC Universal, Fidelity and Monster better understand his generation.

Specialties:Generation-Y, Gen-Y, Generations in the Workplace, Career Success, Consumer Marketing, Personal Branding, Social Media, Business Writing, Marketing Research, Entrepreneurship, Relationship Networking