Instructors

Our faculty are experts, thought leaders, and innovators with seasoned real-world client-side, consulting, and/or agency experience. ANA faculty are committed to helping improve your effectiveness and efficiency with proven frameworks and solutions. They leverage their practical experience to help enhance your skills and build your brand.

Chuck McLeester
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Chuck McLeester is a marketing strategist and analyst with experience in a variety of categories including health care/pharmaceuticals, financial services, pet products, travel/hospitality, and publishing. He spent several years as a client-side direct marketer before moving to the agency side 25 years ago.
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Roderick M. McNealy
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Roderick M. McNealy is principal of McNealy Advanced Communications (MAC), whose mission is to provide insight-driven, customer-focused marketing solutions. Rod is a member of the ANA Faculty and is an in-demand speaker. He teaches From Insights to Great Messaging, Customer Centricity, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Marketing Innovation.
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Mark McNeilly
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Mark McNeilly is a lecturer at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. In addition to being a member of the ANA Faculty, Mark is the author of three books. He teaches The Art and Science of Brand Building.
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Chris Miller
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Chris Miller is Founder of Innovation Focus and a high energy facilitator and speaker in service to inspire deep understanding and meaningful innovation. Chris is a member of the ANA Faculty. Chris teaches Marketing Innovation and Marketing Research.
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Laurence Minsky
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Laurence Minsky is renowned in professional and academic circles for his strategic and creative leadership and broad-reaching industry expertise which includes brand development, advertising, brand activation, and more.
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Noetic Consultants
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Noetic Consultants is a marketing consultancy offering brand strategy, research, training and facilitation services to senior leaders and their teams. They provide fresh perspectives and intelligent thinking to help you achieve your goals. They are distinct in their approach because we are culturally aware of and adaptable to your organization. They are highly adept at creating clarity where it is lacking, and act as a catalyst for your team to realize important results.
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Steve Palmisano
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Steve Palmisano is the founder of AdElevate and a member of the ANA Faculty who brings with him a long history of collaboratively driving strong dominant brands in both general and multicultural markets. Steve teaches Media Strategy.
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Valerie Peck
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Valerie Peck is the Founder and Principal at East Bay Group, a consultancy she created to help corporations develop and execute their Customer Experience strategy. Her hands-on experience in management with both major corporations and the Big 5 give her a wealth of best practices (and worst) to pull from, making her a subject matter expert who is highly sought after both in consulting and speaking.
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Stan Phelps
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Stan Phelps is the founder and chief measurement officer at 9 INCH and a member of the ANA Faculty. He has been named by SAP as a Top 60 Customer Experience Influencer. Stan teaches Customer Experience Design.
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Matt Prohaska
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Matt Prohaska, CEO and Principal, heads Prohaska Consulting’s efforts to help clients navigate digital and programmatic change. More than 100 clients globally have chosen the organization for its strategic guidance, project leadership and training. Matt teaches Harnessing the Power of Programmatic.
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Michael Quinn
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Michael has built agencies by winning pitches, both on-staff and as an agency founder, for over 20 years. Today, he teaches practical skills and offers insight based on experience, ongoing industry research and recent conversations about pitching with senior corporate decision-makers.
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Jean Marc Rejaud
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Accomplished marketing executive and consultant, Jean Marc Rejaud is a Full-Time Professor and Assistant Chair in the Advertising and Marketing Communications Department at the Fashion Institute of Technology where he teaches and researches new trends-best practices in Shopper Marketing, Fashion Marketing, Digital & Social Marketing, and Global Marketing.
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Ernan Roman
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Mr. Roman is recognized as an industry pioneer. He was recently inducted into the Marketing Hall of Fame for his pioneering work in creating three transformational methodologies: Integrated Direct Marketing, Opt-In Marketing, and Voice of Customer Relationship Research.
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Natalie Ross
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Natalie is a seasoned branding professional, having worked at the world’s leading branding firms, Interbrand and Landor, as a marketing professional within Fortune 500 companies including MasterCard and JP Morgan Chase, and as a Principal and Managing Partner at FullSurge, her strategic brand and marketing consultancy created to help build brands the world can’t live without.
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Andrea B. Ruskin
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Andrea is a Strategic Consultant and Partner at Blum Consulting Partners who works with marketers to implement workflow that drives a more creative, effective, and strategic process.
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Dr. Devyani Sadh
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As CEO at Data Square, Dr. Sadh, has successfully spearheaded numerous programs for CRM and Data Infrastructures, Hygiene, BI, Predictive Analytics, Digital Integration, Campaign Management, Marketing Automation and CRM Strategy consulting for clients such as Adobe, Cisco, IBM, The Jones Group, JP Morgan Chase, Kraft General Foods, Red Door Spas, Oppenheimer Funds, Sony and USTA.
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Nicole Sebree-Henry
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A marketing professional with 20 years of experience, Nicole Sebree-Henry has managed advertising campaigns and leveraged visibility for Fortune 500 brands including Ford Motor Company, FedEx, and Caesars Entertainment.
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Dina Shapiro
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Dina Shapiro is the founder of Yorkville Consulting. She is a member of the ANA Faculty with more than 20 years of marketing experience ranging across internal and external stakeholders and touchpoints. Dina teaches Elevating Your Creative, Optimizing Agency Relations, Integrated Marketing Communications, and Integrating Across the Organization.
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Cord Silverstein
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Cord Silverstein is an award-winning marketer, leader, coach and speaker with over 20 years of proven marketing expertise. He has worked on both sides of the aisle leading the marketing strategy and execution for Fortune 500 brands on the agency and client side.
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Beth Smith
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A 30-year veteran of direct marketing, Beth has extensive experience in designing and managing direct marketing programs for a wide variety of industries, including: business-to-business marketers, the travel industry, financial services firms, high tech products and services companies, consumer packaged goods, pharmaceutical companies, and charitable and membership organizations.
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