SOCIAL MEDIA IN BUSINESS - Key Persons

Farah Hesdin

Job Titles:
  • Community Manager and Writer
Farah Hesdin is the Community Manager and Writer at Social Media in Business. Farah researches on different topics in the fields of business, management, travel and culture, with a particular interest for the way technology and social media have revolutionized our society and business world, a trend which only promises to grow in the years to come.

James Kilgarriff

Job Titles:
  • Consultant
  • Trainer
  • Founding Associate Member of Association for Coaching
James is a Consultant and Trainer at Social Media in Business formally a professional coach at Harv Eker´s Peak Potentials Company. Harv Eker is a highly sought-after personal development speaker who has developed a multi-million business in just a few years through his extremely popular techniques. His programs have attracted over half a million students worldwide with the aim of helping people becoming financially free using fastrack business and marketing principles. In addition, James Kilgarriff has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience gained in the corporate world. This includes new business direct sales, channel management and sales management gained in technology sectors, including with Lucent Technologies, Unysis, Siemens and Avaya Inc for which he was the Sales director for a telecommunications reseller. James is also a Founding Associate member of Association for Coaching in the UK as well as a Fluent Spanish speaker. His expertise helps business owners and company executives build their businesses through the use of fast track marketing, sales and Internet strategies

Steve Nicholls

Job Titles:
  • Author
  • Digital Expert
  • Social Media Experts
Steve Nicholls is the author of the best-selling"Social Media in Business", international speaker, and social media strategist who helps business executives implement a winning digital strategy into their organization. Steve grows client revenue with his proven approach that social media needs to be implemented at the senior level and integrated into the DNA of the entire organization. Steve tailors social media strategy to help companies maximize benefits while identifying and mitigating risks. Steve has designed and implemented advanced Internet applications for many leading global organizations including British Telecom, Ciena Corp., John Laing and NSPCC, among many others. He has been featured as a social media expert in CNN, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, BBC, Huffington Post, among many others. As a former business executive, Steve is unique among social media experts in his ability to bridge the language gap between those developing new technology and the senior executives who need to implement them to keep their company's competitive edge. After beginning his career as a project manager in skyscraper construction, Steve earned his MBA at Henley Business School in 1992 and his Masters of Science in Organizational Development from the University of Portsmouth in 2008. His background as a project manager, combined with his extensive experience in the business and technology industries, has given him the unique ability to help companies lay their own blueprint for social media success. Steve Nicholls is the author of the best-selling "Social Media in Business", international speaker, and digital strategist who helps business executives implement a winning social media strategy into their organization. Steve grows client revenue with his proven approach that social media needs to be implemented at the senior level and integrated into the DNA of the entire organization. Steve tailors social media strategy to help companies maximize benefits while identifying and mitigating risks.