Adam Rodricks

Adam Rodricks

Toronto, Ontario
Canada's Top Social Media Strategist & Digital Marketing Expert
Adam Rodricks, Crowned Canada’s Top Social Media Strategist, is an award-winning keynote speaker & bestselling author, known for growing brands through digital marketing & social media. Adam Rodricks has transformed "word of mouth" into a world of mouth for Fortune 500 companies and on stages across the world, most notably on the TEDx stage and Collision Conference, the largest technology conference in the world. Adam has spent the last decade growing the digital marketing & social media properties of a number of prominent brands, including American Express & Staples. His #1 best-selling book Trigger Fingers: Personal Branding Through Storytelling has helped thousands of individuals gain insight on their branding journey and has been brought into the upper-year Canadian university Marketing curriculum this year.
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  • Business Management
  • Business Technology
  • Future Trends
  • Campus & University Speakers
  • Conference
  • Economic Development
  • Education & Teachers
  • Event Hosts & Moderators
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Guest Panelist & Guided Q&A
  • Inspirational

ADAM RODRICKS BIOGRAPHY

Adam Rodricks has spent the last decade growing the social properties of Canada’s most prominent brands, managing and speaking on all aspects of digital marketing strategy including social listening, management of social media channels, crisis communications and analytics. His work as a social media influencer has been featured on CBC, CTV, Yahoo, BNN, DigitalJournal.com, MaximumPC, WhatCulture.com, staples.com and Nintendo.ca.

His first book, Trigger Fingers: Personal Branding through Storytelling skyrocketed to the top of the charts, becoming a #1 best-seller in Canada in the categories of Direct Marketing, Public Relations and Business. In 2022, the Speakers Bureau of Canada named Adam “Canada’s Top Social Media Strategist” and the University of Toronto honoured Adam with their inaugural Young Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement, for his contributions to the field of Digital Marketing as a practitioner, author and public speaker.

As a social media strategist, Adam brings innovative ideas to blend personal branding with corporate branding while making content that gets picked up by the algorithms on each platform.

Adam Rodricks has engaged millions of followers on Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram as well as viewers on YouTube, IGTV and Facebook Live to help individuals, influencers and social media experts to put ideas into action. Rodricks also teaches a course at the college level that he built off of proprietary data and case studies from his own career exclusively at George Brown College.  Adam specializes in assisting businesses to create conversations that resonate with their audiences and increase meaningful chatter, turning posts into messages and messages into their sales funnel for quality leads.

Videos

Podcasts

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Big Data and AI Toronto

Adam Rodricks, Carolina Bessega

Fireside Chat: Digital IQ and Marketing Big Data
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Hamza Khan

SBC

Adam Rodricks | Ideas Into Action #22
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Big Data and AI Toronto

Sue Paish, Adam Rodricks

Fireside Chat: Breaking The Glass Ceiling

Adam Rodricks Topic Presentations

ai-scream for innovation - chilling tales of artificial intelligence

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  • Horror stories are no longer reserved for the pages of a Stephen King novel; Artificial Intelligence brings them closer to home than ever before. With AI expected to eclipse $400 billion by 2027, consumers are starting to realize that there’s a cost of rapid innovation and it’s coming in the form of manufacturing job loss, decreased customer interaction and a horrifyingly low level of trust amongst consumers.

    How then do we harness the power of Artificial Intelligence while preserving the business we’ve built and the relationships we rely on? In this keynote, Adam Rodricks analyzes the most critical missteps we’ve seen businesses make in AI adoption, and how they can very easily lead to business destruction instead of business disruption.

    Key take-aways:

    • Understand the most common AI missteps companies made in 2023 and how to avoid them in your business.
    • Analyze the shift in trust amongst consumers brought about by AI, and learn what you can do to ensure you are well-positioned to sustain the faith you’ve built in your business.
    • Shed the fear by learning three key ways that AI can bring about job disruption instead of job destruction.

alexa, you’re hired - non-linear career pathing & the future of education

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  • Much like most kids growing up in the 1990s, Adam played video games. He played a lot of video games. He’d talk about them online, and eventually started a blog. It developed a following. It got noticed by major companies. One of them served him a cease and desist. That was scary; but it was also validation: when he talked about his passion, people listened.

    Adam has brought his talk on the future of education to countless boardrooms and classrooms across the Toronto District School Board and Toronto Public Libraries, becoming the most requested small business seminar offered in 2022 (TPL). He inspires professionals and students alike by sharing how his unconventional journey gave way to the earliest forms of social media before the industry existed in Canada, and how his career was born from early adoption in Digital.

    With technologies rapidly advancing faster than most companies can plan for, many of the jobs of tomorrow do not exist today. But who’s to say that even though they don’t exist today, we can’t prepare?

    Key take-aways:

    • Inspire audiences to move passion into action by answering the all-important question “what do you want to be known for?”
    • Thought-provoking idea starters on the value of education and personal branding (as early as high school, and any time thereafter), and the career paths a good online brand can open up.
    • Learn how to turn interest in any topic into a portfolio that can one day be used to compel senior leaders in decision making, in networking, and in job-seeking.

the art of the possible - digital transformation in 2024

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  • How do business owners put their best foot forward, virtually?

    Adam sheds light on this crucial question of the digital age in his award-winning talk that examines the ways in which we can make the most of our time online. With half a billion tweets published every single day, harnessing the power of your online properties has never been more important.

    Through The Art of the Possible, Adam guides you through the do’s and don’ts of online interaction on the web, social and search. Every company is going to have an opportunity to be memorable – but will it be for the right reasons?

    Based on data from real-life case studies on companies and individuals who have moved the needle online to establish themselves and drive purchase decisions, Adam guides you through the trends that are already upon us in market and are here to stay.

    Key take-aways:

    • Understand the ever-changing digital landscape in Canada online, as brought about by the pandemic but persistent ever since.
    • Leave with actionable takeaways for newcomers and online veterans alike to grow meaningful influence with every interaction online.
    • Harness the power of employee advocacy and testimonials: micro-influencing through case studies on consumer trust, loyalty and action.
    • Learn 3 actionable takeaways to future-proof your personal or professional brand as we establish a new normal.
    • Engage in workshop activities to ensure every participant leaves with actionable insights to further their business online.

going viral, despite vaccines - emerging technology trends

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  • They say hindsight is 2020 but there was absolutely nothing in our fields of vision, past, present, or future that ever gave us so much as an inkling of what we had in store for the 2020s. A global pandemic, economic collapse, and calls for racial equality: but we know the night is darkest before the dawn.

    And through this darkness shone new stars, who rode new trends to new heights. This is a discussion about what we’ve observed online in recent years, and which of these emerging technology trends are most likely to influence us in the post-pandemic world. Welcome to ‘Going Viral, Despite Vaccines’.

    Based on data from real-life case studies on brands and individuals who have moved the needle online to establish themselves and drive purchase decisions, Adam guides you through the trends that are already upon us in market and are here to stay.

    Key take-aways:

    • Harness the power of micro-influencing through case studies on consumer trust, loyalty and action.
    • Understand the ever-changing landscape online, as brought about by the pandemic but with the staying power to affect us in the years to come.
    • Learn 3 actionable takeaways to future-proof your personal or professional brand in this ever-changing Digital environment (read: let’s avoid getting canceled)

how to build your brand

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  • Why do we care and why do we share?

    Two questions Adam sheds light on in this award-winning talk that examines the ways in which we can make the most of our time online. With half a billion tweets published every single day, honing your communication skills has never been more important. With millennials and gen Zers prioritizing authentic interactions more than ever, it’s no longer enough to be a part of the conversation.

    Based on accurate data from real-life case studies on brands and individuals who have moved the needle online to establish themselves and drive purchase decisions, Adam guides you through the do’s and don’ts of online interaction. Every company is going to have an opportunity to be memorable – but will it be for the right reasons?

    Key take-aways:

    • Harness the power of Adam’s value-driven engagement formula used by influencers in virtually every major online community.
    • Leave with actionable takeaways for newcomers, business owners and community managers alike to grow meaningful influence with every interaction.
    • Understand how communication changes from generation to generation and equip yourself with the traits that unite the cohorts, as well as divides them.

Testimonials

You want to know the mark of a good keynote? We brought Adam in 2016 and to this day, our team still quotes his formula for truly effective messaging.

Kristen Foucault

Investors Group

Hands down one of the most electrifying speakers we’ve ever had the pleasure of hosting.

Sultan P

CHRL

Adam delivered a very engaging and educational talk on “How to build your brand on LinkedIn” at the Palmerston Public Library Small Business Series. His examples and stories were simple and effective in sharing the power of LinkedIn to your audience. He took time to answer all the attendees questions and provided fantastic answers. Highly recommend Adam share his message to groups who want to learn and take action on his knowledge.

Jim Pagiamtzis

Speaker, Author, Trainer

Articles & Media

DYPB

SBC

Diverse speakers add richness to any event - #LinkedInLocal Feb 26 2020
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Staples Canada

SBC

Putting Your Best Foot Forward in Virtual Meetings
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Books

TRIGGER FINGERS: PERSONAL BRANDING THROUGH STORYTELLING
TRIGGER FINGERS: PERSONAL BRANDING THROUGH STORYTELLING
Eighteen stories that will educate, entertain and impart lessons on personal branding. In Digital, we fixate on future-proofing, forecasting and iterating for further fortunes. But much of what has made me an effective marketer is entrenched in my past. Through these stories, you'll match the...
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