Dan Schawbel will be speaking at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Regional Seminar

Dan Schawbel, recognized as a "personal branding guru" by The New York Times, is the Managing Partner of Millennial Branding, LLC, and the leading authority on personal branding. He is the author of the #1 international bestselling career book, Me 2.0: 4 Steps to Building Your Future (Kaplan Publishing).

In 2007, Dan co-created one of the first social media positions in a Fortune 200 company, EMC Corp. He is a syndicated columnist for Metro US (New York, Boston & Philadelphia), reaching over 1.2 million readers bi-weekly. At 27 years old, Dan is the youngest columnist at BusinessWeek and a blogger at Forbes. He has written articles for The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur Magazine, BrandWeek Magazine, Mashable, AOL Jobs, Yahoo! Shine, MediaPost, BNET, and Advertising Age.

As a national speaker, Dan has spoken to IBM, CitiGroup, Time Warner, Harvard Business School, and MIT, and has shared the stage with thought leaders such as Seth Godin. He is exclusively represented by the Big Speak Inc. speakers bureau, who also manages Donald Trump and Lance Armstrong. He helps both individuals and companies with creative branding solutions. He is also a founding member of the Young Entrepreneur Council. Dan lives in Boston, MA and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Bentley University in 2006.