In this episode, we talk with BRIAN FANZO, the founder & CEO of iSocialFanz…a huge social influencer, change agent, technology evangelist, prolific podcaster, conference emcee and Millennial keynote speaker.

THOUGHT #1 - Raise Your Hand Faster than Anyone Else.THOUGHT #2 - If the Goal is Survival, You've Already Lost.

CONNECT:

Website: www.iSocialFanz.com

Speaker Website: www.BrianFanzo.com

Twitter: @iSocialFanz

Instagram: iSocialFanz

Podcasts:

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Just Try This (w/ Amy Landino)

S.M.A.C. Talk

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Hard Rock International – HardRock.com

Thoughts That Rock – ThoughtsThatRock.com

Certified Rock Star - CertifiedRockStar.com

Culture That Rocks: How to Revolutionize Your Company’s Culture (Jim Knight) – CultureThatRocks.com

Black Sheep: Unleash the Extraordinary, Awe-Inspiring, Undiscovered You (Brant Menswar) - FindYourBlackSheep.com

Rock ‘n Roll With It: Overcoming the Challenge of Change (Brant Menswar) – RocknRollWithIt.com

Cannonball Kids’ cancer – CannonballKidscancer.org

Keppler Speakers - KepplerSpeakers.com

Big Kettle Drum - BigKettleDrum.com

Spectacle Photography (Show/Website Photos) – SpectaclePhoto.com

Jeffrey Todd “JT” Keel (Show Music) - JT Keel

BRIAN FANZO'S BIOBrian is a proud dad of three girls under the age of 10, a Pittsburgh loving sports fan, a self-proclaimed change evangelist which makes sense as the one constant in this pager wearing millennials career has been changing. Brian is a proud geek that majored in computer science that found his niche of “translating geekspeak” with a unique background that includes working 9 years for the DoD in Cybersecurity, 2 years at a booming cloud computing startup and the last 5 years an entrepreneur and CEO of iSocialFanz.Brian’s DoD career includes leading a team of 30+ developers & trainers with a mission of training, implementing and developing solutions that empowered the different branches of the military to share and collaborate leveraging social business tools their cybersecurity policies and procedures. If that doesn’t sound tough enough Brian’s role included 2 trips to Afghanistan & 3 to Iraq while also briefing the joint chiefs of staff at the Pentagon. Brian discovered his love for workshops, training and speaking while at the DoD for which he leveraged in his next job as the Technology Evangelist of a booming datacenter startup based out of Phoenix Arizona was known as IOdatacenters.Brian became the face of that company over his two years at IO, developing and implementing the social business and training strategies with the focus of transparent collaboration between new hires, management, executives as well as partners and customers. In those two years, the company grew from 256 employees when Brian started to 612 when Brian left.The role of technology evangelist was one that Brian designed at pitched the CEO himself, as it was a role that two of his idols Guy Kawasaki at Apple and Robert Scoble of Microsoft, later Rackspace mastered creating cult-like followings while connecting internal and external community for the company. Brian had the luxury of reporting to the CEO with a dotted line to both the CIO & CMO where he was able to be the face of the brand speaking and evangelizing the IO data center and cloud solutions at the largest technology events in the world including Amazon ReInvent, VMworld, Gartner Symposium, CES and many more.In 2014 while still at IO Brian received his first of many social business awards as he was named Top 25 Social Business Leader of the future by the Economist and IBM. Brian leveraged the visibility and opportunities afforded to him with this award to travel to Ted Talks and the world’s largest technology events as an influencer, speaker and the personal brand of iSocialFanz.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices