AUTHORITY NOW - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Member of the Leadership Team
Founder and CEO of Advantage Media. Adam is a sought-after speaker, teacher, and consultant on marketing and business growth techniques for entrepreneurs and authors. He has written nine books including Authority Marketing, Book The Business, and Lead The Field. He has shared the stage with Steve Forbes, Gene Simmons of KISS, Peter Guber, and Bobby Bowden. Adam has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Investor's Business Daily, USA Today and more. He is chairman of the not-for-profit Youth Entrepreneurship South Carolina, where they teach entrepreneurial skills to at-risk youth in every South Carolina public school. He also chairs the Clemson University's Spiro Entrepreneurship Institute board and sits on the College of Charleston Entrepreneurship Center board. Adam is a Clemson alumnus and is proud to call Charleston, South Carolina his home.
ForbesBooks Member Kevin Armstrong, author of The Miracle Manager presenting at a conference on management vs. leadership.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Leadership Team
Senior Marketing Strategist and Publisher for ForbesBooks. As a successful entrepreneur, best-selling author, and noted marketing strategist whose commentary on marketing and entrepreneurship has been featured in Forbes, Inc. Magazine, BBC and many other top media outlets, Rusty has led marketing strategies for more than 30 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers. Rusty Shelton founded the award-winning firm Shelton Interactive in 2010 with a forward-thinking model: creating a full-service digital marketing and public relations agency that integrated design, social media, website development, and PR-services that are normally handled by multiple agencies-all under one roof. He lives just outside of Austin with his wife, Paige and three children (Luke, Brady, and Sadie) and their very rowdy black lab, Charlie.