Mary Charleson

Mary Charleson

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Vancouver, British Columbia

Keynote Speaker, Business Strategist, Marketing And Social Media Expert

Mary Charleson is a marketing speaker, educator and strategist who presents keynotes & workshops at conferences and any type of business or organization. Mary Charleson is the author of two books, Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile and Five-Minute Marketing, each featuring tips for the time-starved business leader.
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MARY CHARLESON BIOGRAPHY

CSP business keynote speaker Mary Charleson delivers marketing and social media strategy insight to associations, corporate audiences, entrepreneur groups, and the education sector with actions to get attendees to achieve better results. Her unique combined experience as both a marketing strategist and a travel content creator makes her an excellent choice for a marketing focused keynote to a travel industry audience.

With marketing, social media and digital trends always custom applied for the client or industry, she delivers inspiring stories and examples, backed with proven methods, so audiences walk away with actionable take-home value. 

Her “Top 10 marketing and consumer trends for 2023” keynote are revised annually. It features research on why the trend is happening, and what actions attendees should take. There is an opportunity for industry examples to be customized specifically for client needs. Her “Social Media Content Marketing for the Travel Industry” is particularly popular with travel-based clients due to its highly customized examples and niche industry insights.

The “Think Like a Media Mogul” keynote helps people understand the importance of leveraging owned, rented, earned, embedded and paid media to represent their brand in a unified manner while maximizing exposure. Her “Customer service as marketing” presentation addresses how customers now control the digital narrative, but we control their experience – a critical piece of marketing as we emerge from the pandemic.

Mary Charleson “Five-Minute Marketing Tips & takeaways for the time-starved” address marketing challenges the client or industry is facing, with selected storytelling vignettes, offering actionable time saving strategies based on the latest trends. 

Mary Charleson programs centre around trends, insight and actions, so people walk away with usable strategies that they can implement immediately. Her presentations have been a great fit for conferences, annual general meetings, Franchisee events, association gatherings, university faculty/admin sessions, and sales team events.

Mary Charleson is the author of two books, Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile and Five-Minute Marketing. She is a member of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers and the Global Speakers Federation. Mary is one of fewer than 12% of speakers globally who hold the designation of CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), the international measure of excellence for professional competence and proven experience. 

Mary Charleson’s career spans over 25 years in media, advertising and education. She has been a popular marketing instructor at the City University of Seattle, NYIT (New York Institute of Technology), Capilano University, Acsenda School of Management, and a guest lecturer at UBC Sauder School of Business. Mary has worked with hundreds of businesses and organizations to improve their marketing efforts through consulting and speaking.

A contributor to Business in Vancouver since 2002 and a monthly marketing columnist for the Huffington Post, her work has also been published in the Globe & Mail, the Toronto Star, the Vancouver Sun, Marketing Magazine, Strategy, Zoomer, Cottage and Outside magazine. She is a frequent guest on CBC TV news offering her opinion on marketing and business trends.

In 2018 Mary Charleson launched a new business venture called CarryOnQueen.com, a site focused on travel content creation. (She hasn’t checked a bag in 20 years!) An extension of her passion for writing and travel, she enthusiastically accepts speaking engagements from the travel sector – advising travel businesses, associations and content creators about best practices in marketing and media. 

Mary is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and the City University of Seattle where she did her MBA in marketing. 

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Mary Charleson Topic Presentations

top 10 marketing & consumer trends for 2023

  • Virtual PresentationKeynote PresentationWorkshop SessionHalf Day TrainingFull Day Training
  • This presentation is updated annually to include the most important trends as they relate to consumers and marketing. Each trend is presented with insight into why it is happening, and what actions businesses should take to mitigate threats, and maximize opportunities. Highly customizable, content examples are drawn from the client’s industry to maximize insight and applicable recommended actions. It can be easily adapted for a travel industry, association or content creator audience. Available in face to face or virtual.

    For 2023 the five consumer trends are 

    1. From WE to ME
    2. Fatigue and rebellion
    3. Craving re-connection
    4. Segmented and divided in new ways
    5. Live for the moment

    The Five marketing trends are:

    1. Digital media regulation 
    2. Changing nature of social media 
    3. AI omnipresent 
    4. Customer service void 
    5. Hidden communities

    Learning outcomes:

    • Gain an understanding of changes in consumer behavior –important post pandemic
    • Utilize top consumer trends to find opportunities for your business or industry
    • Understand how to adapt new best practices in marketing, particularly for online digital and social media 
    • Explore new ways to communicate your message post pandemic utilizing digital platforms

social media content marketing for the travel industry: secrets to increased engagement, sharing & organic reach

think like a media mogul - how to leverage your brand in multiple media channels

5-minute marketing - tips, trends and takeaways for the time-starved

digital transformation trends - finding marketing opportunity during the pandemic

customer service as marketing

Testimonials

Mary Charleson has presented a keynote to our community, The Grand Connection, three years in a row for our year end theme on Marketing Trends. Each unique live virtual presentation has been engaging, informative, and thoroughly researched. Mary’s talks on micro and macro trends are inspiring, insightful and extremely relevant to our community. She presents examples in a way that is accessible and actionable for our members. Mary Charleson’s insights have been an invaluable part of our members’ planning for the New Year, and we are so grateful to have had her as a resource. We have the opportunity to extend the concepts presented by diving deeper into our mastermind breakouts....

S.J

Co-founder
Grand Connection

I can’t thank Mary Charleson enough for being a keynote speaker for WPN Bellingham. Our group of professional women was thrilled with her presentation. Not only did she customize it specifically for us, but she also delivered excellent, usable information that we could apply to our businesses that same day. Mary is a media and marketing expert and she was savvy enough to leave the jargon at home and really speak to us in layman’s terms. We’ve already had requests to have her back.

Jessica Renner

Speaker Chair
Women's Professional Network Bellingham

Mary Charleson has great knowledge of marketing and media that she shares in a compelling way with business audiences. Her message resonates well with entrepreneurs who are looking to leverage their efforts for maximum impact with minimum expenditures. 

The Connected Woman

Many thanks for the excellent presentation on how to leverage our media for marketing. Judging by the note-takers during the presentation there was some keen interest.

Henry Walthert

Executive Director
Wood Preservation Canada

Mary Charleson’s presentation got everyone thinking about how the power of word-of-mouth is amplified by word of mouse and mobile in the digital age. Rich with compelling, real-life examples, Mary’s presentation reflects her highly attuned perspective on how an organization’s reputation is built or broken by the way stakeholders interact with its brand.

Victoria Miles

Conference Chair
Canadian Association of Communicators in Education

The presentation on Marketing to Women was excellent. Mary Charleson conveyed an important message and honored both men and women, which is sometimes hard to do.

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Books

Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile
Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile
Word of Mouth Mouse & Mobile

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