AI, marketing, and digital citizenship keynote speaker.
I've been building on the internet since I was a kid running an AOL site, back when the whole point was finding your people and making things together. That pulled me into marketing the moment brands showed up online. At 360i I ran Oreo's social for three years, and when the Super Bowl lights went out, my team posted “You can still dunk in the dark” in real time. It went viral in minutes and became the example everyone still points to for a brand being fast and human. What people now call real-time marketing, we were inventing as we went.
Since then I've taught social media at Iowa State and West Virginia University, and gone deep on AI, where I sit on a Fortune 500 AI Center of Excellence and build tools people actually pay for. The through-line never changed: not the technology, but what it does to the people using it. I speak about work I shipped, not case studies I read.
Word of Mouth
What people posted after watching me speak.
Posted from the room
Such an inspirational closing keynote. Great way to wrap up Real Time Summit.
Joshua Decker
Posted after a talk · Real Time Summit
He kills it when it comes to marketing, sales, and social media.
Justin Dean
Posted after a talk · Real Time Summit
I want to be like him when I grow up.
Jen Bryant
Posted after a talk · LDA Talks
One of the most innovative and creative minds in the business of global brand marketing.
Stephanie McNamara
Posted after a talk · University guest lecture
On Stage
A sample of the conferences, summits, and universities I've spoken at, plus where I taught.
Conferences & events
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB)
The Real Time Summit
Sysomos Summit
Meltwater Social Media Festival
Social Media Strategies Summit
Stukent Digital Summit
The Mediaocean Current
AAF National Speaker Series
WVU INTEGRATE
Serial MarketersUniversities
University of Louisville
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Syracuse University
Drake University
Grand View University
Colorado Mesa University
University of Northern Colorado
Sacred Heart University
Nichols College
Alfred University
Walters State Community College
Fordham UniversityTaught as adjunct professor
Iowa State UniversityWest Virginia UniversityRecognition
The work picked up some hardware along the way.
Guinness World Record
Cannes Lion
CLIO
Shorty Award
Facebook Awards
Forrester WaveIn University Textbooks
My work is part of how universities teach social media, PR, and marketing.
Brands
A partial list of the brands I've worked with, in-house and at agencies.
Oreo
Coca-Cola
Unilever
Estée Lauder
Mondelez
Subway
Heineken
Hot Wheels
Freshpet
JWT
Jell-O
Stride Gum
Trident Gum
Simply Orange
Sprite
Mary Kay
Travelers InsuranceAn insider's look
Digital Citizenship
For sixteen years my job was to stop your thumb. Oreo, Coca-Cola, Heineken: brands that live or die by attention, and I was one of the people engineering it. I know how the machine works because I worked inside it.
This talk is an insider's look at that machine, for the people living in it now: your digital footprint, your privacy, how to spot manipulation, and what AI changes about all three. Practical, not preachy. Nobody gets told to delete their apps.
Ways to Book Me
Five formats. Pick one, or tell me what you have in mind and we'll shape it.
Keynote
Conference mainstage or company all-hands. Story-driven, grounded in work I shipped. 45 to 60 minutes plus Q&A, tailored on a prep call to what your audience actually does.
Workshop
Half or full day, hands-on, built around your team’s actual tools and workflows. People build in the room instead of watching me talk about building.
Executive session
Closed-door working session with leadership. Questions welcome, slides optional. What AI changes for your org, and what to do about it next quarter.
University guest lecture
In person or virtual. I taught as an adjunct at Iowa State and West Virginia University, and four textbooks cite my work. I know how college rooms work.
Panels and podcasts
Moderating or guesting. The press kit has bios and headshots ready to go.
English or Spanish
Every format runs in either language, prepared in the language, not translated. Virtual, or in person from the New York metro area.
Questions Organizers Ask
Depends on format, date, and travel. Tell me what you have in mind and I will give you a number in my first reply, not after three discovery calls.
Yes. Keynotes, workshops, and executive sessions all work remote. In-person I travel from the New York metro area.
Yes. I am bilingual and deliver keynotes, workshops, and executive sessions in Spanish or English, prepared in the language directly, not translated. The Spanish side lives at leonardom.com/es/conferencias.
Always. We get on a call beforehand, I learn what your audience actually does, and the examples come from their world. A canned talk is easy to spot and I would rather not give one.
Usually yes. We agree on it upfront along with where the recording will live.
Virtual can come together in a couple of weeks. In-person needs more lead time for calendar and travel. Either way, earlier is easier.
No. The talk is the product. If people want to work with me afterward, they know where to find me.
Book Me
Tell me the event, the audience, and the date. I respond to most inquiries within a day or two, with a number, not a funnel.
Organizer shortcut: the press kit has headshots and bios ready to download.
¿Prefieres hablar en español? Conferencias en español.