Accelerated Intelligence AI

Deliver cutting-edge consulting and Artificial Intelligence advisory to businesses who need to expand their company's innovation capabilities and turn their human resources into superhuman resources by expertly leveraging technology ethically and efficiently. We are business-focused and tech-enabled.

Founder & CEO

Costanzo Marketing Group

Business owners and executives sometimes get stuck trying to grow their profits, get more customers in the door and expand their business.  That's when they work with me.

I create new profit centers for them using overlooked opportunities, hidden assets, underutilized relationships and  revenue sources.

Costanzo Capital

Private Equity, Angel, A-round and Acquisitions. Investments include holdings in media, publishing, e-commerce and real estate, cannabis and satellite launch technology.

Most investments involve indepth growth advisory.  Currently looking to invest in or acquire companies that have plateaued or are struggling financially and would like a quick turn around. 

What we do: 
1. Financial & Operational Triage: Quickly assessing how to stabilize the business.
2. Growth Lever Activation: Finding appropriate growth levers from sales & marketing to improve topline performance.
3. Financial Engineering to get the most from the bottomline.
4. Increase Shareholder Value which may involve systemization or bolt-on acquisitions of competitive or complementary businesses.

If you would like a second opinion on whether your company might be a good fit for us, please reach out

Principal

Bacon Wrapped Business Podcast

"Sizzling hot business advice guaranteed to make you fat... Profits!" 

This is my weekly talk show for business owners, marketing execs and entrepreneurs to listen in as I give my best advice and invite guest experts to reveal their best "bacon wrapped business-strategies" with listeners.

Free on iTunes at http://baconwrappedbusiness.com/itunes

Or visit the blog at http://baconwrappedbusiness.com

Podcast Host

Brandetize

Brandetize is a world renown marketing and brand development agency focused on elevating brands and driving monetization. 

My work centers on finding innovative solutions to their client's performance and driving revenue using proven yet unique methods.   Currently working with the Brian Tracy International account to spur growth and impact.

Chief AI Officer & Head of Strategy

RealEstateInvestor.com

I guided the marketing team and company to grow and acquire new clients for the service and SaaS business by deploying marketing campaigns and improving the effectiveness of lead generation and sales.

Strategic Advisor

Otomo

Otomo is revolutionizing the way people budget and save money with AI: Automated Intelligence.

Advisor

Frank Shamrock, Inc.

Advise and facilitate on Frank "The Legend" Shamrock's (5x UFC Champion) personal brand platform and business development with multiple portfolio companies

Strategic Marketing Partner

Jesse Itzler

Advised and directed marketing initiatives and platform growth for NYT Bestselling author and serial entrepreneur Jesse Itzler. Generated tens of thousands of new leads and helped facilitate multiple live events.

Strategic Marketing Consultant

Real Estate Worldwide

I worked with the company to facilitate growth using all channels including social, content, PR, biz dev, as well as more strategic future moves for the company such as potential funding that will accelerate growth.

Helping companies embrace AI in their business to accelerate revenue, productivity, creativity and employee retention resulting in Super-Human Resources. AI Keynote Speaker | Automation Consulting | Growth Advisory

"Brad is one of the foremost authorities in the US on ChatGPT and AI for business" - Brian Tracy 

"If you're stuck and you feel like you got to make the next leap with AI in your business you should call Brad.  I'm going back and radically shifting what I do because of Brad" - Jack Canfield

"Brad Costanzo has a unique superpower to collect and recall profitable strategies that apply across industries and to connect and build the right relationships for his clients." -Brian Horn, Forbes...

"Brad is a constant source of relevant, thought-provoking ideas with a ton of knowledge on all things marketing, business development, and entrepreneurship. Just a couple of his connections and strategies helped us bring in an extra $50,000+ this year. I highly recommend Brad as a consultant to anyone that's looking to grow their business"
-Andrew Pawlak, CEO Leadpops. 

In my career I have started, run, acquired and exited multiple businesses and served many amazing clients as an advisor, consultant, coach and mentor.  

My clients refer to me as a “catalyst" who can "see around corners" and spot the non-obvious but simple business opportunities that create leverage and most importantly results.

I’m proud to help business leaders make bold strategic moves that improve profits and raise valuations through innovation, marketing and lateral thinking strategies.

I started adopting Artificial Intelligence in my business before ChatGPT was all the rage and have now helped to revolutionize the workflow of my clients by showing them how to use AI to unlock unprecedented innovation and productivity. 

As a keynote speaker on AI and Innovation, I'm proud to help businesses and Human Resources create Superhuman Resources by using Artificial Intelligence & strategic business practices

Do you or your team need a crash course on AI or an AI-powered innovation sprint, DM me. 

I invite you to learn more at ►► https://acceleratedintelligence.ai

And if you'd like to get ahold of me for any reason (including a second opinion on your marketing strategy or to book me to speak at your next event, simply shoot me a message).

Learn more at 
►► https://www.bradcostanzo.com

Brad Costanzo

Stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real results from your AI investments. 

They say "AI is transforming everything. AI will 10X your productivity. AI is the future."

But 92% of companies trying to use AI are failing to see meaningful returns according to data from Nvidia.

Let me say that differently: for every dollar businesses are spending on AI tools, software, and consultants, most are getting pennies back in actual business value.

But the 8% who ARE winning with AI aren't doing it because they're smarter or have bigger budgets. They're following a different playbook, one that actually works for businesses like yours.

I'm going to break down the four things successful companies do differently, stripped of all the technical jargon and corporate-speak.

AI-Powered Growth Advisor for founders, creators and innovative organizations. Entertaining Educator and International AI Keynote Speaker. BradCostanzo.com

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Stop spinning your wheels and start seeing real results from your AI investments They say "AI is transforming everything. AI will 10X your productivit

Open article: The Small Business Owner's Guide to Actually Succeeding with AI by Brad Costanzo • 9 min read

The Small Business Owner's Guide to Actually Succeeding with AI

It's no secret that AI touches every aspect of your business (and that can be a bit overwhelming... but it doesn't have to be). 

The key is to find the current bottlenecks in your workflow and seek to improve one at a time.

Here's a more interactive view of this image if you want to play with it. 

https://lnkd.in/g3P6uTpD

The Productivity Paradox when getting your employees to use AI can be dangerous.  Here's what it is and how to avoid it.

Watch the youtube video here (less than 3 minutes long) https://lnkd.in/gwhVFSd5 

Moral:  If you're trying to create a culture of innovation and AI usage at your company make sure you understand this aspect of employee psychology first. 

And if you're looking to have someone train your team, my DM's are open

BST Global

✅ Designing and implementing customer success frameworks tailored to the unique needs of diverse client bases.
✅ Building strong client relationships through proactive communication and personalized support strategies.
✅ Driving product adoption and maximizing customer lifetime value through targeted training and onboarding programs.
✅ Leveraging data-driven insights to identify opportunities for process optimization and continuous improvement.
✅ Collaborating cross-functionally with sales, product, and support teams to ensure alignment and exceed customer expectations.

Customer Success Lead

Disability Rights Florida

Our Board of Directors establishes our goals and priorities each year. Along with the leadership team at Disability Rights Florida, the Board approves Disability Rights Florida’s budget and policies on a regular basis.

Member Board of Directors

NielsenIQ

Responsible for the leadership of three different verticals, supporting the Finance & Human Resources technology for the organization.
●	SAP SD/Billing – Senior Director leading the SAP technical team that supports $3B in billing and contracts annually. E-Invoicing, Revenue Recognition, & Service Delivery functions. 
●	Redesign/Implementation of major business processes such as Opportunity to Cash (Revenue Cycle), Procure to Pay (Procurement Cycle), Record to Report (Retorting Cycle), and Hire to Retire (Human Capital Cycle).
●	Road mapping - Led over 30+ Modernization & Operational improvement efforts to reduce severity issues to less than 1% a year for the last 3 years. Created Legacy Application and future technology roadmap to drive decision making and investments.
●	CRM Integration – Maintain technical interfaces between SAP Billing & SaaS CRM integrations.  MS Dynamics, Experlogix, Conga & Salesforce
●	Managed Analytics, KPI's, 40+ SAP consultants, Program Managers, & cross-functional teams to deliver multiple projects on time and within budget.
●	Mergers & Acquisition – Provide due diligence and post-sale of over $1.5 Billion in acquisitions and led SAP integration of over 25 global companies. 
●	Weekly team calls, training, mentoring and process resolution.

Global Director Of Technology, Mergers & Acquisitions

Nielsen Company

Prioritize initiatives and requests against diversity focus areas and provide leadership for Asian Americans Links (AAL) Employee Resource Group for the Southeast region.

ERG Leader: AAL SE Region

Manage international digital engineering programs, coordinating multiple technology stacks, and integrating solutions to meet clientele need.

Managing latest mobile ratings solution, providing the latest technologies in reaching and understanding what resonates with our clients.

Program Manager

Successfully managed a team that oversaw 20+ M&A efforts over 3 years.   Chief responsibilities included: 
●	Leveraging technology automation to identify and develop project efficiencies. 
●	Created new operating procedures that reduced integration lifecycles by 30%.
●	Developing and managing strategic partnerships within the company to facilitate faster integrations, and more precise resource needs.
●	Integrated 15+ companies, on-time, under budget, and implemented new automation in parallel.

Director Of Technology

Leading the Global integration practice for Enterprise Platforms. This team works to integrate new companies into our HR, Billing, Finance and Payroll portfolios, powered by SAP.

Successfully managed a team that oversaw 20+ M&A efforts over 3 years.   Chief responsibilities included: 
•	Leveraging technology automation to identify and develop project efficiencies. 
•	Created new operating procedures that reduced integration lifecycles by 30%.
•	Developing and managing strategic partnerships within the company to facilitate faster integrations, and more precise resource needs.

Director Mergers & Acquisitions Integration Leader

•	Responsible for assembling project plans and teamwork assignments for online platform. Direct and monitor work efforts on a daily basis, identifying resource needs, performing quality review; and escalating functional, quality, timeline issues appropriately. 
•	Responsible for tracking key project milestones across multiple teams, and time zones, while adjusting project plans and/or resources to meet the needs of customers. 
•	Work with Program Manager(s) in partnering with senior management of the business community to identify and prioritize opportunities to achieve the goals of the enterprise.
•	Provides subject matter expertise in areas including project management & infrastructure, setup of local project offices, project scope definition, risk identification, project methodology, resource allocation, facilitation, and other areas of expertise based on professional knowledge and background.
•	Co-Leader of Professional Development for Asian American Leaders, Employee Resource Group

Engineering Project Manager

Sustany Foundation

•	Responsible supporting the organization’s projects and mission to create awareness in for a more Sustainable Tampa Bay.
•	Contribute to social media and blogging efforts to raise awareness and promote organization
•	Create strategic relationships with local and national businesses to further the reach of the organization
•	Ran organizational planning and development events and offsites for multiple years.

Executive Board Member

Nielsen

Drove initiatives to assist the company in environmental responsibility strategies and collaborate with our colleagues, clients and vendors to drive forward a holistic approach that will optimize our positive impact on the environment.

Green Team Leader SE Region

PMI Tampa Bay

Member of the Professional Development team responsible for researching highly qualified speakers for professional development workshops to provide top quality, relevant education events to the chapter.

Director of Professional Development

Leslie Controls

Led team of staff & consultants, working with Senior Leadership team of the business in a rebuilding effort to fix a key Circor business unit.  
•	Manage, direct, and implement operations strategies and objectives to ensure the achievement of division’s goals.  Focuses for short-term goals are systems up-time, on-time-delivery, cost of sales, quality, gross margin, and human resources throughout the Value Stream Management (VSM) value chain. Focuses for long-term goals are the formulation, planning, and implementation of strategies for ongoing process improvements throughout the VSM value chain. 
o	Led strategies to create first IT roadmap for Power & Process organization to lay out a plan for integration of multiple companies across the globe. 
o	Development of KPI and metrics to departmental information to the business.
o	Supported corporate datacenter by providing facilities support, and scheduling and establish preventative maintenance for critical support systems (UPS, Generator, Fire Suppression, HVAC, etc.)  
o	Managed Epicor Vantage ERP environment
o	Improved system performance by 30% (response time to user) and reduced server/database processing bottlenecks by over 70% through virtualization, hardware migrations, and establishing SOP’s.
o	Enterprise PDM deployment to Circor India business and supporting the VP of Engineering o	o	Development of ECN (Engineering Change Notices) solution
o	Managed IT project to upgrade all systems to latest CAD software
o	Shop Floor software management and support (DNC,CNC, Kiosks, & Barcoding)
o	Assisted in the Quality Management System rollout 
•	Budget planning for $120 million dollar business unit.  Reduced 2013 budget by 10%.
o	Reduced capital leases by 35% on copier fleet and negotiated Managed Print contract to reduce toner cost by 70%
o	Negotiated telecom expense reduction of 50% that will save $10K/year at minimum.

Senior Information Technology Manager

CIRCOR International, Inc.

Additional role to begin leveraging expertise in managing multiple projects that are at many sites, yet similar in overlapping needs, and be able to streamline the work in those projects while creating sustainable solutions that can be shared within the organization. 
•	SOX/ITGC controls project to diagnose and remediate deficiencies within business units. 
•	Assist in the definition of the SOX/ITGC framework that will be followed by the whole organization
•	Designing Segregation of Duties standard processes to assist the business units in securing their systems. Assist global business units in completing financial risk reviews.
•	ITIL Process definition project 
•	Software Licensing Discovery and Application Portfolio project
•	Global Trade Compliance & Data Segregation project (ITAR, Import/Export Compliance)
•       Telecommunications project - 15% reduction in monthly bill by negotiating and consolidating existing service providers.

Special Projects Manager

Collaboration Portal 
Document Imaging Laserfiche 
Global ERP selection & business case projects.  
Application maintenance & development
Contracts & license management

Project Manager & Web Dev Lead

Customer Success, Executive Leadership | Strategy | M&A | Advocacy | Automation | SAP | Board of Directors

As a global tech & operations executive, I lead the IT strategy and execution key verticals: Finance, Human Resources, and Mergers and Acquisitions. With over 20 years of experience and direct leadership of teams in 12 countries, I have been fortunate to create a proven track record.  Delivering complex and high-impact projects that enhance efficiency, drive value, and foster innovation for the organization, as well as investing and building up those I am fortunate to collaborate and lead.

I am passionate about leveraging technology to solve business challenges and create opportunities for growth and improvement. I am also a diversity advocate and a community supporter, having contributed over 5000 hours of service to various non-profits. My mission is to use my leadership and expertise to make a positive difference in the world.

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