Episode 26: No excuses to getting on stage with Bobbie Carlton

Bobbie Carlton, award-winning marketing, PR and social media expert, shares how you can secure speaking gigs today. Bobbie most recently founded Innovation Women, an online speakers’ bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women designed to help event managers gender-balance their speaker slates. She shares with us how you can get yourself onstage at conferences and events.

Our Guest

Bobbie Carlton, founder of Innovation Women, Innovation Nights and Carlton PR & Marketing, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. She speaks regularly on social media, innovation communities and product launches, and consults with small businesses and individuals on social networking, marketing and PR.

Previously, in addition to working with a number of Boston-area PR and marketing firms, she headed global PR enterprise software companies PTC and Cognos (now part of IBM). In 2006 she switched gears, joining a startup focused on providing positive values for preteen girls through a social network and book series.

Innovation Women is an online speakers’ bureau for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women designed to help event managers gender-balance their speaker slates. Mass Innovation Nights is a social media powered new product showcase and networking event. MIN has launched almost 1000 new products which have collectively received more than $1.3 billion in funding.

In 2010 she was named one of the “Ten Bostonians who have done the most for the startup community”, and in 2011 she was a recipient of a Mass High Tech All-star award. In 2015 she was named a Boston Business Journal Woman to Watch.

Guest Links

• InnovationWomen.com
• Mass.InnovationNights.com
• Innovation Nights on YouTube