I'm an advertising and marketing consultant with clients throughout the globe as well as Professor of Advertising, Marketing, and Social Media and Digital Strategies at Columbia College Chicago. As a creative director, copywriter, and/or marketing strategist, I’ve helped create solutions for many of the world's top brands and the results have been recognized with more than 125 creative awards. I’ve also had the honor of judging everything from truly international contests to local ones. My client experience ranges from the Fortune 500 to start-ups and non-profits; they include AARP, Amazon, Bay Valley Foods, Black & Decker, Frito-Lay, GE, George Foreman, Kraft, McDonald’s, MetLife, Midtown Athletic Clubs, Motorola, PETsMART, Sears, SC Johnson, Spacelabs Healthcare, Target, Unilev...