Elite Speaker Series with Dave Nelsen

Dave Nelsen helps business owners, managers, and executives develop strategies to enhance the conversations with their most important internal and external customers using proven social networking and internet communication tools. He’s an experienced podcaster, blogger, tweeter, Facebook, Google+ and Ning user, as well as consummate LinkedIn networker (member #98,323).

Because he’s been a successful CEO in multiple businesses, he addresses problems from a return-on-investment (ROI) perspective. Dave is a successful entrepreneur, professional speaker, radio personality, and author.

Mr. Nelsen is an award-winning CEO who has founded and run several companies including social media pioneer TalkShoe. He has raised more than $70,000,000 in Federal, angel investor, and venture capital funding. Most importantly, as a CEO himself, he has successfully tackled in his own businesses many of the same challenges his clients are now facing.

Dave is a founding member of Vistage group CE 676, part of the world’s largest CEO network. He speaks at hundreds of corporate and industry association events, and chaired the Audit and Compensation Committees of NASDAQ-traded NPSI. He is past Board Chairman of the Pittsburgh chapter of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship and has served on the Board of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra among several other non-profits.

Dave is an award-winning professional speaker who has appeared dozens of times since 1999 with radio host Ron Morris on WMNY-AM. Since 2009, he’s also been writing a monthly column for TEQ Magazine. In 2009, he was awarded Best New Speaker of the Year by Vistage International, the world’s largest CEO membership organization. In 2010, and again in 2012, he was recognized as Impact Speaker, Vistage’s most exclusive honor. In 2011, Dave received Vistage’s Speaker of the Year award. In 2013, he was recognized with Vistage’s Member Choice award, as the most popular speaker among 1,500+ subject matter experts. He’s the only Vistage speaker ever to be ranked in the top 1% for five years in a row. A mountain biker, Adventure Racer, and triathlete, Dave also makes award-winning red wines in his spare time.