International Coaching Federation

Global board advisory member responsible for helping to shape a human-centered, ethical future for coaching in an AI-enabled world

Member of the Board of Advisors

PureMatter

Founded and scaled three companies while coaching 500+ leaders to redefine how they lead through complexity. My private clients—founders, execs, and rising stars—consistently report deeper clarity, faster decision-making, and greater emotional agility.
I blend real-world strategy with human insight to help leaders:
	•	Navigate career pivots and reinventions
	•	Build emotionally intelligent, high-performing teams
	•	Grow without burning out or breaking trust

Executive Strategist & Business Coach

We energize business by humanizing marketing. CEO/President of digital, social and demand generation consulting firm based in Silicon Valley. Producing 100+ industry awards for integrated and new media marketing. Top 20 Fastest Growing Companies in Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley Business Journal. Some clients included: NASA, Netflix, Mastercard, Charles Schwab, Cisco, IBM, Harvard, and Salesforce.

President + CEO

Bryan Kramer is an international marketing and business keynote/conference speaker, best-selling author and strategist who consults Fortune 500 clients such as IBM, Cisco, Bloomberg and Pitney Bowes on humanizing business through social media, content and digital marketing.

He’s one of the world's foremost leaders in the art and science of sharing, and has been credited with shaping the #H2H human business movement in marketing and social.

Bryan has spoken to audiences as large as 6,000. Notable events include TED, NASA, Charles Schwab, SXSW, IBM, Harvard, Bloomberg and the NFL.

He's been named "Top 25 Social Influencer to Follow"​ by Forbes, one of the "100 Most Influential Tech People On Twitter"​ by Business Insider, and one of the "Top 50 Social CEOs on Twitter Globally"​ by The Huffington Post.

Bryan's latest book, "Shareology: How Sharing is Powering the Human Economy" made USA Today's Top 150 Book List the week of its release, as well as #1 on Amazon in four categories including Business & Planning. The book explores the history, art and science of sharing and illustrates why sharing is what gives us a unique competitive advantage as individuals and brands.

His first book "There is No B2B or B2C: It's Human to Human #H2H" explores the many facets of why and how communication today needs to be adjusted to keep up with our ever-evolving and fast moving social and digital world. It rose to the #1 in Business Books on Amazon in its first week. 

Bryan’s Speaking Topics Include: 

Shareology: How Sharing Powers the Human Economy
Learn How to Speak, Market and Sell Human
Redefining Human in Machine Driven Age
Strengthen Your Business by Speaking Human-to-Human
The Secret to Activating Influencers for Your Brand
Breaking Through the Human Firewall: Creating Deeper Trust for Your Brand

Learn more at BryanKramer.com.

Keynote Speaker

Harvard Business Review

As a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council I help improve the content they publish and help chart their future direction.

Harvard Business Review Advisory Council

Fast Company Executive Board

Executive Board Member

Forbes Coaches Council

Ongoing Forbes columnist: https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescoachescouncil/people/bryankramer1

Council Member

Author

Lately, Inc.

Function as outsourced head of marketing, responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and execution of the organization's annual strategy, demand generation, and advertising initiatives. Since joining the company has received over 51% growth in revenue.

Investor and Fractional CMO

CBIZ

Grew the digital marketing and digital demand gen arm of the marketing team into 500% growth in revenue. Agency become one of the top 20 interactive agencies in Silicon Valley - Silicon Valley Business Journal

Managing Consultant

Carter Waxman

Sr. Account Executive

Fulfilling Executive Leaders' Ambitions | #H2H: Human-to-Human Author | 200+ Keynotes | TEDx Speaker | Silicon Valley, CA 🇺🇸 + Lisbon 🇵🇹

You’re not stuck. You’re just outgrowing the playbook that got you here.
High performers reach a point where the same tools stop working. The mask of certainty cracks. And what used to feel like drive? Starts to feel like depletion.

I know the signs because I’ve lived them—and coached through them.
Over the last two decades, I’ve helped thousands of leaders, entrepreneurs, and exec teams redefine how they lead—by shifting from performative perfection to aligned presence.
I started a global movement (#H2H), gave a TED Talk on why sharing redefines the future, built one of Silicon Valley’s fastest-growing agencies, and wrote two bestsellers. But what matters more than the accolades is the ripple effect: helping humans lead better, live fuller, and build from clarity instead of chaos.

If you’re navigating a shift, personally or professionally, I coach high-performing executives ready to evolve their leadership, their business, or both. I also speak and advise on how to lead with trust, create high-impact cultures, and scale what matters.

Let’s talk if you’re:
	•	Leading a team that’s growing faster than your systems
	•	Reimagining your role, your brand, or your business
	•	Ready to stop forcing and start aligning

P.S. I’m based in Lisbon and Silicon Valley, speak globally, and still believe the most powerful thing you can be is human.

Bryan Kramer, PCC, CPCC

Marketing and Creative Strategy, Planning, Consulting and Coaching for Marketing and Creative teams needing an experienced creative and Marketing executive to spark new ideas, get organized, gain structure, create creative campaigns, gain alignment in their teams, and develop leadership.

I work with purpose-driven companies and people. My favorite engagements are brand development, theme development for campaigns and events, and helping brands get clear and compelling with their messaging and positioning. My 3-science professional assessment from MeetYourself.me confirms my top talents to be visionary and intuitive, as well as a structured thinker and doer. This means I am super motivated to help you find your next big idea, and also driven to develop the plan and implement it. I am your most valuable Marketing and creative Swiss army knife. :)

I have experience on both the brand side (Global Head of Marketing for The Co-Active Training Institute, a Coach Training + Leadership Development company for 3 years) and the creative agency side (Executive Creative Director/co-founder of our Silicon Valley Creative Agency for 20+ years), working with B2B brands and B2C brands, start-ups to Enterprise, across a variety of industries. 

I am very fun to work with too :) Laughing is essential!

Portfolio located at www.purematter.com
Writing styles at www.courtneysmithkramer.com and on Forbes
Book located at https://bit.ly/cskbook

Outsourced Executive Creative Director and Marketing Consultant

Co-owner/Executive Creative Director happy to be creating compelling, creative marketing, strategy and plans . 

Named a Top 20 Agency Strategy Global Influencer and Top 200 Global Influencer by Onalytica 

Specialize in:
– Influencer Marketing programs
– Social Media Strategy and Plans
– Marketing Strategy and Plans
– Marketing Consulting
– Creative Consulting
– Outsourced Fractional CMO

Executive Creative Director/Co-founder

Meet Yourself

Advisory Board Member for Meet Yourself (meetyourself.me), the world's first workplace assessment tool to use DNA, psychographic, and behavioral sciences to discover your inherent skills and talents.

Advisory Board Member

H2H™ Companies

Co-founded with Bryan Kramer, founder of the H2H Human-to-Human® Business movement, H2H Companies helps business professionals reorient their business to purpose, empathy, simplicity and imperfection as a superpower. 

Improve your leadership through powerful coaching.

Co-Founder

Forbes

Forbes Agency Council contributor

Co-Active Training Institute

Oversaw global marketing for the Co-Active Training Institute (formerly the Coaches Training Institute). CTI is the world's largest experiential leadership development and coach training company, having transformed over 65,000 lives around the globe.

Responsibilities included driving creative and programmatic strategy for the global company. Build from the ground up an internal team and external partners to create and implement multiple initiatives (Including a complete rebrand – name change, new brand, messaging, internal and external launch – brand management, Hubspot integration for marketing automation, SEO, website, digital ads, demand gen, content creation, social media, videos and podcast) as well as worked on the Executive team to drive the business forward and help define company goals.

Website: www.coactive.com

Global Head of Marketing

American Advertising Federation

Conference chairperson for the AAF Western Region Conference in San Jose. Lead a team of fellow volunteers to plan and execute a 3-day conference full of professional development sessions, roundtables and after-hours events.

Branded and marketed the event through social media and strategic partnerships.  

The experience just about killed me.

Western Region Conference Chair

Cyclone Design

Owner/graphic designer and brand marketer for a variety of clients, including the Detroit Lions, General Motors, Accident Fund, Michigan State University, and Bridge Bank. Services included brand development, corporate identity, traditional marketing and interactive services.

Owner

RiverHouse Graphics

Sr. Art Director for small graphic design firm. Responsible for design of traditional advertising such as magazines, logos, corporate ID, invitations, newsletters, etc. for a variety of clients including Michigan State University and Auto-Owners Insurance.

Sr. Art Director

Executive Creative Director. Brand Designer. Global Head of Marketing. Coach. Consultant. Entrepreneur. Author. Writer. Designer. Strategist. Satirist. Named a Top 200 Global Marketing Influencer and Top 20 “Agency Strategy” Global Influencer by Onalytica. 

I co-founded two companies with @BryanKramer:
– PureMatter, a global marketing Silicon Valley consultancy specializing in Marketing and Creative strategy and consulting. www.purematter.com
– H2H Companies (Human-to-Human) coaches leaders how to be more human and create more authentic and human-centric teams to better connect with their employees and customers.

I am one of the only 3% of women Creative Directors in the US and have been told I have a knack for making the complex simple. I believe in the intense power of creativity and laughter to change the world, and have a wicked sense of humor. I am a specialist in building strategic Marketing programs and teams from the ground up. My superpower is helping people and programs get clear and creating beauty and order out of chaos. 

In my career, I have learned:
– That the most successful campaigns are only propped up by a solid strategy and knowing your customer inside and out, then measuring it and making it better
– How to build and lead teams of creatives inside my agency 
– How to manage and get the most out of outside agencies and vendor partners
– How to connect and align all aspects of business with Marketing as a CMO
– The key to happiness is doing great work that is on purpose, with integrity and a giant sense of humor

From 2018 – 2020 I served as the Global Head of Marketing for The Co-Active Training Institute (formerly The Coaches Training Institute www.coactive.com), the world's largest experiential learning coach training and leadership development company, which is transforming the human experience through improving relationships.
 
In my career, I have built award-winning branding, Marketing, Social Media, and Influencer programs, demand gen, and creative strategy for brands like Netflix DVD, IBM, International Culinary Center, Cisco, Plantronics, Autodesk, Pitney Bowes and more. I also helped a lot of SMBs whose names you wouldn't recognize, but are full of heart, vision and doing great work in the world.⭐

SUPER PROUD –> My book, “Be Your Creative SEXY Self: Humorous Stories to Help You Live a Happier Life" was launched in June 2020 to over 20 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐  reviews!  bit.ly/cskbook 

Lover of wine, tequila, movies and aliens. Forbes contributor. I write screenplays for fun. I only work with nice people and brands with a soul and purpose.

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