Margo Berman

Author, Marketer, Professor, Inventor, Speaker

Margo is the creativity and marketing expert with more than 20 years as an award-winning creative director and advertising professor. She founded her own ad agency, Global Impact, handling American Express, Alamo Rent A Car and Banana Boat. Margo also hosted an interview talk show in Miami: "Artists About Themselves. "

Her first book, Street-Smart Advertising: How to Win the Battle of the Buzz, was selected as the Featured Business Book for the June 2008 issue of Delta Sky Magazine. She also created two 6-CD webinar sets on Street-Smart Advertising, which won a 2008 national AWC Clarion Award for Educational Reference. Her second advertising book, The Brains Behind Great Ad Campaigns, was released in 2009. Margo is also the inventor of tactikPAK®, a patented system of learning. Margo has co-authored three books on spirituality. In addition, she has written articles for the Encyclopedia of Advertising

A keynote speaker and member of the National Speakers Association, Margo is a corporate trainer of creative, hands-on seminars such as Creativity to Shatter The Gray Matter®, Powerful PR, Killer Copy and Mental Peanut Butter®

She has been honored with numerous advertising and teaching awards. She was named the 2001 Woman of the Year in Communications Education. Her Web site, www.UnlockTheBlock.com, won a national Clarion Award in 2004. In 2005, she was named a Kauffman Faculty Scholar. In 2007, she received the Dean's Outstanding Research Award. In 2010, she was promoted to full professor. Her third book, The Copywriter's Toolkit, will be released in 2012.