Pneuma

Connecting deserving brands with their next customers 

3rd Fastest Growing Company in the Rocky Mountain Region
16th Fastest Growing Marketing Agency in the US
170th Fastest Growing Company in the US

Founder

Cancer Treatment Centers of America (acquired by City of Hope)

Management Consultant

TEDx

Working with TEDxWabashCollege has truly been a blessing.

I've had the chance to test my leadership and management skills with a group of 30 students across Wabash College's campus, and also learn more about Event Planning and Marketing.

Our event has seen much success over it's four years, growing from 100 attendees to over 350 attendees, and selling out Wabash College's largest event venue.

We've also seen much professional growth, as our NPS Score has reached a new high of 78 over our 2018-2019 year.

If you're interested in sponsoring TEDxWabashCollege, or speaking at our next event, please contact me directly!

Event Organizer

My first position with TEDxWabashCollege was in the role of a curator.

For our 2018 event, I researched prominent topics on the TED platform, as well as topics that would be prominent to our local community.

With this information, I moved forward and contacted individuals that I believed would be powerful speakers to have at our event.

Once I decided on the three speakers I would like to bring to the event, I worked with these speakers to outline and develop their talks in the TED format. 

Then, it was the day of the event! I prepped each speaker on professional speaker techniques derived from TED to ensure their talk reached its potential.

Curator

Eli Lilly and Company

Corporate Financial Reporting

Founder, Pneuma Media | I turn $1 into $8.12 with a content-first SEO Strategy | DM Me for a Free SEO Audit | John 3:30

At Pneuma, we’re more than a marketing agency - we’re your long-term growth partner in The Search Economy.

Every day, billions of people search for answers, solutions, and opportunities online. We help businesses show up, stand out, and become the clear choice when it matters most, regardless of where people are searching. Through specific Paid, SEO, and Website tactics, we build sustainable systems designed for measurable growth - not quick wins or fleeting spikes.

But what sets us apart isn’t just our expertise—it’s our commitment to partnership. We treat your business like our own because your growth is our growth. That means aligning with your goals, investing in your long-term success, and showing up with care, clarity, and consistency every step of the way.

We’re not here to deliver just "campaigns" and "deliverables"; we’re here to build something meaningful, sustainable, and worth celebrating—together.

David W. Riggs

Hate is a strong word, but it might be the only one to describe how I feel about "traditional" 1:1s

Nothing got under my skin more than to wake up 30 mins early on a tuesday morning to tell my manager about my to-do list, so they could feel productive.

So, when I started Pneuma, I did my best to spin that model on it's head. 

1:1s shouldn't be about work. And if you're talking about a task list for more than 5 minutes, you're doing it wrong. 

Some thoughts below :)

What’s Happening In My World I used to think no one cared about what I was actually doing day to day. I assumed subscribers (you) only wanted the clea

Open article: Building people > building companies by David W. Riggs • 4 min read

Today would be a great day to ask yourself why you have notifications on

4 years into building Pneuma...

Plenty of reasons to have slack and email notifications on...

... and not a single one of them have changed my mind

I've done this for so long I assumed everyone else does it as well, but I don't think that's the case

I'll jump on a meeting with a vendor, and during the meeting the individual sharing the screen has to swipe away notifications every few minutes.

Why? What's the point?

Schedule time to check your notifications, or notifications will end up scheduling your entire day

PS - Use an app like Opal to block socials from your phone to not get distracted

PPS - Use Apple's DND mode to simply turn off everything.

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President

Imagine a potential customer searching for your services online but finds your competitors instead. Frustrating? Absolutely. That's where Pneuma steps in. Our SEO and PPC strategies are crafted to not only make your business visible on Google but to position you as the top choice for your customers.

At Pneuma, we're focused on first page rankings, better first impressions, and most importantly—growing companies that grow communities!

Senior Vice President, Revenue

Uncovered

I’m working with a small team in the early stages of building a software platform to combine data, analytics, and the “wisdom of the community” to help solve the cold cases of murdered or missing people. 

Every year, more than 5,000 cases go unsolved and because of law enforcement's need to "allocate resources" the victims that most often go cold are women, persons of color, or gay/bi/trans.

Through activating these "citizen detective" communities I believe we can reduce the need for law enforcement, use our collective impact and success of the platform to influence public policy, and ultimately start getting wrongful murder convictions overturned.

By no means do I think we can do this in one day, one month, or even one year, but it's past time to start working on something that matters. 

You can see the cases we've started or sign up for updates at cases.uncovered.com.

Co-Founder and CEO

SalesTuners

SalesTuners is a sales enablement and acceleration firm focused on helping tech companies thrive. We work with our clients to Increase pipeline, qualify opportunities, and win bigger deals. We also look to level up the performance of each team member to create a better sales culture in the presence of disruption and chaos. 

Have you ever asked yourself any of the following? 

- "We sure are great when we get in front of prospects... but how do we get in front of more?"
- "We delivered the perfect presentation... but why is the deal going to slip to next month?"
- "We can close the opportunity this month... but how do I do it without discounting?"

You're not alone.

These questions just happen to be three of the biggest things I hear when talking with sales teams today, and I've personally been there too. If you're looking for a defined system to break out of the traditional buyer/seller game and create predictable revenue, let's talk.

Sales Coach

Ad Fontes Media

Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation with a mission to make news consumers smarter and news media better. 

The phrase Ad Fontes is Latin for “to the source,” because we rate news by analyzing the source and its actual content. We use a rigorous, reproducible methodology, and a politically balanced team of analysts, to rate that content, both for bias and for reliability.

Investor

Boardable, Board Management Software

How engaged is your nonprofit board? Want to help them do their important work more effectively?

Boardable was built by nonprofit leaders to solve the real problems boards face: endless email threads, lost documents, stale meetings, and lack of accountability.

Simplify communication, hold more efficient meetings, and streamline board service with a set of tools that reduces friction and saves everyone time.

Investor / Advisor

Malomo

Build your brand with every shipment. Malomo turns post-purchase ecommerce transactions into relationships by letting retailers control the shipping experience.

Advisor

Woven

Woven helps high-growth engineering teams hire great developers faster, with less engineering time. Their, evidence-based, technical screening process finds talented developers that other hiring managers simply overlook. 

If you're ready to quit missing out on developers and start shipping more of your roadmap, check out WovenTeams.com

Ziptility

Modern utilities must work smarter. 

Today, America’s crumbling infrastructure of water utilities still rely on inaccurate paper records. 

Ziptility is underground utility software built to close the knowledge gap for water managers, field operators, office staff, and contractors, to protect our critical assets.

Share Your Genius

***Aquired August 2021***

Connect with Ideal Clients. Tell Stories Worth Sharing. Build an Audience.

High quality, well executed, impactful podcasts are hard to produce. After doing it for the last two years, producing more than 200 episodes, growing an audience from zero to more than 5,000 listeners each month, we've gotten it down to a science. 

Podcasts are the only medium you can consume today without needing to stare at a screen. It allows you to meet your audience where they are and when they want. Having a show in today's world of information overload allows you to stand out and build instant credibility with your target audience while leveraging a platform to connect with influencers.

Partner with us to make a podcast that connects your prospects and audience to your brand through exceptional audio storytelling.

Co-Founder

Costello Inc.

***Acquired November 2019 by SalesLoft***

We live in an era of hyper-competition and rising buyer expectations. If the way we sell doesn’t add value, buyers quickly move on to the company that does. 

The problem is your existing tools don't help you do this. Your CRM is a database designed to store information -- it doesn't help your reps sell. As a result, they depend on ad-hoc tools like notebooks, Google Docs, and spreadsheets to manage deals. And it's hard to keep things on track when deal information is spread across email, notes, and CRM.

Costello is sales co-pilot software that helps your team keep deals and conversations on track so you close more deals.

Learn more at: AndCostello.com

I've been fortunate to have spent the last 20 years helping lead two companies from $1M to more than $10M and, raised over $1M in seed-funding for two other companies. Today, I work with entrepreneurs and executives to shape the future of how technology and digital products will complement our lives and businesses. 

Personally, I'm THE biggest University of Kentucky basketball fan to ever graduate from Indiana University, a lover of buffalo wings an unapologetic Nickelback listener, and... I don't get to spend nearly enough time on the golf course as I'd like. 

Fun facts:
- I spent a year traveling the world with my family, living in a different country every month
- I've attended a baseball game in all 30 MLB stadiums
- I've ridden a bicycle 160 miles across the state of Indiana (one day)
- Completed a full marathon despite hurting my knee one mile in.
- Finished my first Olympic triathlon in 3:35:08
- I'm a huge fan of Hamilton and was lucky enough to see the original cast on Broadway
- A few of my favorite books include: A More Beautiful Question, The Last Great Game, 	
Tao of Charlie Munger, Call Me Ted, and Never Split the Difference
- Ran a Congressional campaign for Indiana's 5th District (held by Rep. Dan Burton)

📈 Jim Brown

25 years ago, I stood on the yellow footprints and began the journey to earn a title I still cherish to this day... Marine. 

To celebrate our 250th birthday, I pulled the blues out of the closet for the first time in 22 years. The last time I wore them, I was a 21-year-old kid who thought he had the world figured out.

Today, the uniform is older than I was back then, but somehow, still fits like a glove.

In addition to our customary birthday traditions, and remembering that the Corps was literally born in a bar, I bought shots for the Commanding Officer — who joined the year after I got out.

Here's to 250 more! Happy Birthday, Marines! Semper Fi.

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