​Authentic Avenue is a B2B content production agency. Services include B2B video production, creative strategy, podcast production, and social media marketing and management.Specifically, Authentic Avenue builds B2B content engines. which enables its clients to consistently produce original content aimed at high-stakes relationship building, business development, industry authority, and thought leadership.Authentic Avenue's founder, Adam Conner, is a B2B content creator who has personally created content with over 300 CXOs across the world's most prominent brands. He is an experienced executive interviewer and moderator, as well as a national champion public speaker.

WHAT I DID: Evangelize peer marketing as the single most authentic and influential strategy for brands today. Deliver on Vivoom's enterprise-level client relationships. Run a pretty cool podcast and talk to the best in the biz through it.WHAT I LEARNED: How to tell and elicit killer stories. How the world's best CMOs think. How to innovate, and how to build from scratch. How to work 100% remotely.ASK ME ABOUT: Give, Give, Give, Ask. The email. The closet.

WHAT I ADDED ON: Led a global business development function for APT, the first of its kind for the company. Managed a team.WHAT I LEARNED: How to motivate and excite. How to steer a team through internal crisis. ASK ME ABOUT: Raising hands. Propel. The schism.

WHAT I DID: Cut my teeth in real-life grown-up sales. Closed a few million in business. Flew A LOT. WHO I SOLD TO: C-suites and other senior leadership within CPG, retail, and consumer tech.WHAT I LEARNED: The power of sales through relationship-building. How to show genuine care for your fellow employees and the culture between them. How to sell an idea. How to navigate an org post-acquisition.ASK ME ABOUT: Layering fragrances. Local rock bottom and the comeback. The Law Offices of Stein, Stein and Stein.

WHERE I SAT: On the 25th floor of the Empire State Building.WHO I HELPED: Account Managers and Solutions Consultants, by researching and analyzing data to optimize recruitment media for its clients as part of the Media Solutions team. ASK ME ABOUT: Getting flown out to HQ for a film shoot. Making Jeff Weiner laugh.