In 1999, Josh founded his marketing agency, MWI. Fourteen years later, a strategic error left him on the edge of bankruptcy with only three clients left. In this desperate moment, Josh was invited to write a column for Forbes. Writing for Forbes opened the door for Josh to write hundreds of articles for over two dozen publications including TIME, Inc., Entrepreneur, Fast Company, Mashable, and TechCrunch. The attention generated by those articles led to a TEDx talk, a book deal, co-authoring a Harvard Business School case study, and over $10M in revenue for his agency.
Josh’s experiences with personal branding and thought leadership led him to create The 7 Systems of Influence, a framework to help leaders create content that attracts attention from the right audience and gets them to take action.
Today, Josh is a Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author, oversees multiple businesses under his holding company Pando Partners, and spends time as a speaker to audiences worldwide and a book coach to successful entrepreneurs and executives.
Josh has a mastery of content distribution strategies matched only by his engaging speaking style. He expertly demonstrated actionable ways to contact the right journalists, and more importantly, how to create crave-able content.
– Daniel Mackey, VP of Operations at WriterAccess, Content Marketing Conference
It was wonderful to have Josh as a TEDxHongKongEd speaker. He was thoughtful, funny, authentic and talked about something relevant and personal – the ingredients for a great TEDx talk.
– Jong Lee, TEDx Hong Kong
Josh came to speak to our Master of Management students at Peking University HSBC Business School. He connected to the students with his humor and personal approach to speaking. The students responded exceptionally well to him bringing his experience to our course and he was a pleasure to work with.
– Kevin Chastagner, Assistant Professor at Peking University HSBC Business School, Shenzhen, China
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