Today’s guest believes being human is your competitive advantage.

He is a renowned business strategist, global keynote speaker, executive trainer and coach, investor, and Forbes contributor. As President and co-owner of PureMatter, a Silicon Valley global marketing agency and CEO of H2H Companies, he sparked the Human-to-Human H2H global movement that aims to humanize business through simpler communication, empathy, and celebrate our imperfections.

He’s the two-time best-selling author of “There Is No B2B or B2c: It’s Human to Human #H2h” and “Shareology: How Sharing is Powering the Human Economy.”

Forbes calls him a “Zen Master to Digital Marketers” and his TED Talk featured a TED first allowing mobile devices during the event to illustrate his belief that even a small inspirational share holds the power to change the world for the better.

Please join me in welcoming Bryan Kramer.

In this episode we discuss:

• His thoughts on leadership: “Leadership is helping someone else grow. It’s not about yourself, it’s about others. If you’re not growing someone else, you’re not a leader. Full stop.”
• The influence his parents had on him, including encouraging him to put himself out there whether it was running for office through high school or becoming an eagle scout.
• How he mingled between all the cliques in high school as an ambivert. “I was able to hang out with everyone. I found it really neat to bring people together.”
• Why he doesn’t believe in popular vs. unpopular, people are either connected or not connected.
• Why he wants to surround himself with people who mean something to him, are good, and light him up.
• His experience being a firefighter and the class that turned him towards communications instead of the medical field.
• How an F on a jazz test changed the trajectory of his entire life. “Who knew an F on a paper was going to lead me down this road?”
• His out of college experience of building websites and computer programming and how that led to Bryan building his own agency.
• How he met his partner in both life and business.
• Why he believes marketing changes every 2-3 years.
• Why companies loved the creativity of personalized results and Bryan’s “Human 2 Human concept.”
• Why he maintains so many subscriptions to many different things.
• Why he loves Flipboard and how it helps him see the world the way he wants to see it.
• How a conversation with his 12-year-old son completely rocked his world and prompted him to close his agency.
• How he nurtures and sustains the outer levels of his network.
• What he’s looking forward to in the year ahead.

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