Apprentice is a platform that connects entrepreneurs and business leaders with smart and motivated college students that are looking for real-world experience and mentorship.Apprentices work between 10 and 15 hours per week from college, on anything and everything needed to make their leaders’ lives easier and to make them more effective.Learn more now at http://ChooseApprentice.com

Kerpen Ventures is an investment vehicle through which serial entrepreneurs and wife and husband team Carrie and Dave Kerpen invest in early stage startups (pre-seed or seed round) who meet one or more of the following criteria: 1) Female founder / owner 2) BIPOC founder / owner 3) Social impact focus If you meet these criteria, we look forward to talking!

Helping company scale while helping the world be more grateful. Meaningful. Purposeful. Grateful Giving.Where businesses give to nonprofits that matter most to their customers and employees

My 4th business book and 5th book overall, Get Over Yourself: How to Lead and Delegate Effectively for More Time, More Freedom, and More Success is a roadmap for entrepreneurs, small business owners and leaders at companies of all sizes. Published by BenBella, the book is endorsed by Barbara Corcoran, Jesse Cole, AJ Jacobs, Dorie Clark and Pat Flynn.

I’m helping this amazing, healthy chocolate company scale.

I’m helping this exciting startup that democratizes access to mentorship scale up.

I’m helping this amazing startup scale up. It’s a values-based subscription box for kids and their parents, teaching kindness, courage, gratitude and more!

I’m helping this creative marketplace startup scale up.

Authored New York Times bestseller Likeable Social Media: How to Delight Your Customers, Create an Irresistible Brand & Be Generally Amazing on Facebook (& Other Social Networks) (McGraw-Hill, 2011)Likeable Business: Why Today's Consumers Demand More & How Companies Can Deliver (McGraw-Hill, November 2012)

I am a advisor to the CEO and CFO of the company that I believe in!NYC-based WayBetter has developed a new approach to healthy behavior change based on gamification, financial incentives, and social support. Our first product is DietBet, a motivational game that brings people together to lose weight as part of a fun, supportive online community. We've paid out over $25M to players who reached their weight loss goals and helped over 400,000 individuals lose a collective 5 million pounds. Our second product, StepBet, is an app-based game that motivates players to be more active on a daily basis and breathes life into data collected by smartphones and fitness wearables. Now we're applying our proven formula for gamifying behavior change to new verticals.

I'm so excited about my new book: The Art of People, 11 Simple People Skills That Will Get You Everything You Want. More info here: http://ArtofPeopleBook.com and on Amazon: http://BuyArtofPeople.com Here are what some people are saying who got advanced copies:"People skills— they can't be computerized, outsourced, or reduced to a rubric. That's why Dave Kerpen's The Art of People is more important now than ever— this book will teach you a set of irreplaceable skills that will help you in every area of your life. After all, what is more important— what will get you farther in life —than understanding and getting along with other people?”—Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human and Drive“Strong people skills are how I built my business. I find it’s a common thread amongst all successful people, and no matter what level your people skills are at today, after reading this book you will see a dramatic improvement!” —Barbara Corcoran, star of ABC's Shark Tank, Entrepreneur & Author of Shark Tales“Full of good sound advice – things we should always keep in mind and utilize for better relationships.”—Lori Greiner, Best Selling Author, Inventor, Entrepreneur, and TV Personality “This book is like How to Win Friends and Influence People—only better suited for today’s world.” —Adam Grant, Wharton professor and New York Times bestselling author of Give and Take and Originals

The Nursing Beat is dedicated to helping nurses and other frontline healthcare professionals live their best life, from navigating the changing world of health to helping you balance the responsibilities of work and home.We understand the roadblocks that can make this seem impossible—frontline healthcare professionals are often under-supported or undervalued commensurate to their contributions, often overworked and underpaid, and face increasingly difficult working conditions. We are here to connect like-minded professionals with each other and with expert resources and content to provide the support and care every frontline healthcare professional deserves.Our team recognizes the need for a better support system for nurses and advanced practice providers. This is why we created Florence Health, an online resources and social networking platform (Huddle) geared towards empowering nurses to share insights and experiences, connect, learn, collaborate, and support one another. What’s more: we want to help you take better care of each other and yourself.

AI moves too quickly for most organizations to keep up. KIP.ai helps leading enterprises understand the implications of generative pre-trained transformers (GPT) and determine how to leverage the tech against real use cases for an immediate impact. Clients rely on us as a resource to stay on top of advancements and quickly prototype new solutions to become champions for their stakeholders.GPT unlocks numerous efficiencies and enables entirely new applications, with obvious examples in CRM, marketing, sales, customer service, pricing, operations, and many more. KIP.ai uncovers deeper use cases that are more specific to your business and helps you solve them with GPT. The team has worked on projects for dozens of Fortune 500 companies as well as many of the leading tech players, such as Amazon, Facebook, Uber, Citi, Aetna, Pfizer, Verizon and more. Knowledge is power and results > slideware.

Co-authored with popular Black musician Lindsay Brockington, Normal is a middle grad fiction book that's received rave reviews for its authenticity, inclusiveness and message about what's really important: Life for four middle schoolers in New York City can be tough. David's dad has bipolar disorder. Alexa's new stepmother will never be able to fill her mom's shoes. Tiffany's dad acts like he'd rather be at the bar than at home with his family. And Albert's got a family secret he can't even tell his best friend.All these four strangers want is to be normal, but it seems like they're cursed to be outcasts no matter how hard they try. That is until they hear about a special school on New York City's Upper East Side that's meant for kids who stand out.Thanks to a lot of hard work, their new school, a magical teacher, and each other, these four misfits soon find that being different makes them something much better than normal. . . . It makes them friends.

Just because you’re not meeting in person doesn’t mean you can’t still have amazing interactive meetings, conferences and company celebrations. We specialize in adding entertainment, engagement and the x-factor to make your online company events fantastic.We specialize in holiday parties, sales meetings, conferences and retirement parties but can make any virtual corporate celebration incredible. We've planned events for Medtronic, Unilever, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Draftkings, and Viacom, to name a few, and we'd love to help plan your amazing event!

As President of EO NYC, I lead a diverse Board of entrepreneur volunteer leaders in growing the NYC chapter and making it a world-class organization for its' members. The Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) – for $1M+ entrepreneurs only – is a dynamic, global network of more than 14,000 business owners in 46 countries. Founded in 1987 by a group of young entrepreneurs, EO is the catalyst that enables entrepreneurs to learn and grow from each other, leading to greater business success and an enriched personal life.

Likeable Media is the social media and content marketing firm that’s faster, smartest in social, and most likeable to work with. Our unique Content Cubed process (Curate, Create, Connect) makes it simple to generate high quality content which resonates with your key desired audience. Our unique Content Credit system means you only pay for deliverables - not for time! We specialize in serving multinational clients in three areas of focus: Food, Finance and Fun! I am proud of the leadership team we as a Board have developed and our consistent growth in revenues and profitability.

We are an award-winning social media leveraging and word of mouth marketing firm with 200+ clients and offices in 3 cities.Our Mission: To leverage social media and word of mouth marketing to create more transparent, responsive likeable companies, organizations and governments.We consult on, build and execute plans to best leverage social media for leading brands such as 1800-Flowers.com, Verizon FiOS, Neutrogena and stride rite.We are a full service social agency. However, our core competency is helping brands create, distribute, cultivate and respond to text, pictures and videos which drive buzz, growth & action: likeable media.I am proud of our work in social media and word of mouth marketing, our firm's rapid growth, and our presence on Facebook at http://Facebook.com/LikeableMedia and on Twitter at http://Twitter.com/LikeableMedia

#BeLikeableDay, February 26th, is a global movement dedicated to making social media a more positive environment. On this day, organizations and individuals will take a moment to do at least one act of kindness online—whether that’s sharing a compliment on Instagram or thanking a friend on Facebook—using the hashtag #BeLikeableDay. In an age when cyberbullying, fake news, and negative headlines dominate, this is our chance, through individual acts of kindness, to collectively change the world. Learn more at BeLikeableDay.com. https://www.BeLikeableDay.com

I’ve written a children’s book! Normal is the story of four 12-year-olds living in New York City, each of whom thinks that their family isn't normal, and longs for a better life:DAVID: a Jewish boy living in Brooklyn with a bipolar father, two younger brothers, and an overwhelmed mother.TIFFANY: an Italian-American girl in Queens with an alcoholic father, older sister and working-class mom. ALBERT: a Chinese-American only child living in Manhattan's Chinatown, whose father recently left his conservative, traditional mother for a man and came out as gay. JOCELYN: an African-American girl living in the Bronx who is adjusting to life with a new, difficult step-mom after her mother passed away.Sixth grade is a major struggle for each of the four kids in their respective schools.However, they all end up meeting to take an exam to get into Hunter, a special public school in Manhattan for grades 7 through 12.Despite their ongoing challenges at home and at their current schools, the four kids pass the Hunter test and find out in June that they’ve gotten in. They all meet again in September, in seventh grade at this new school, in class, and thanks to a very special communications & theater teacher Mrs. Marsh, their lives change forever, for the better. During a vulnerable, risky class activity on the 2nd day of school, the four kids each take a chance, and find out just how much they actually have in common with each other. They realize that there might not be anything "normal" about anyone.And most important, they come to all understand that they're pretty cool as they all are. For 4th, 5th, 6th, and 7th graders and their parents and teachers, Normal is a compelling character-driven tale of growing up feeling like you’re alone and different, and coming to realize that you’re neither. It’s full of laughs, tears, and an ending you’ll never forget.

Likeable Local is the first comprehensive social media software solution for small businesses. We've taken all of our key best practices and learnings from working with large brands over the last 5 years and applied them to an automated solution for small businesses who can't afford to hire a social media agency. A vertical-based Facebook marketing solution, Likeable Local launched in 2013 as Likeable Dentists, in conjunction with Fortune 500 partner Henry Schein. In 2014 we are raising capital to help scale, hiring a salesforce, further developing the product, and moving into new verticals such as Likeable Doctors, Likeable Brokers, and Likeable Lawyers.

As the the Interim CEO of UMA Health, i pivoted the company to an online mental health and executive coaching marketplace which connects clients to top providers to help them deal with challenges and become happier, more productive, self-actualized members of society, achieving peak performance in their careers and lives. In less than 6 months, I built a business model, created core values and a team culture, created sales scripts, decks and processes, took the company from 0 to $20K/month in revenues, and launched a PR promotion “Free Therapy for Mets Fans” which drove over 120 million views, record traffic, and record users.

I serve as an Advisor for UMA, a revolutionary new consumer app in health care. -UMA helps patients connect with doctors, rapidly taking into account the providers cost, distance, ratings and availability. -UMA allows doctors to focus on the patient, not the insurance.-UMA is built by doctors and loved by patients.It provides a Hassle Free Experience for patients with no insurance, high deductibles, or HSA accounts. Our transparent model allows patients to view doctors fees prior to scheduling.-For more info visit www.UMAHealth.comhttp://umahealth.com

The NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY bestseller—updated with today’s hottest sites!A friend’s recommendation is more powerful than any advertisement. In the world of Facebook, Twitter, Vine, Instagram, and beyond, that recommendation can travel farther and faster than ever before. Packed with brand-new case studies from today’s emerging social sites, this updated edition of Likeable Social Media helps you harness the power of word-of-mouth marketing to transform your business. Listen to your customers and prospects. Deliver value, excitement, and surprise. And most important, learn how to truly engage your customers and help them spread the word.“Dave Kerpen’s insights and clear how-to instructions on building brand popularity by truly engaging with customers on Facebook, Twitter, and the many other social media platforms are nothing short of brilliant.”—JIM McANN, founder of 1-800-FLOWERS.COM and Celebrations.comCheck it out now at http://Likeable2.com

I taught math to public school students in 6th, 7th and 8th grade. I was also an active member chapter leader for the United Federation of Teachers. I have an immense amount of respect and admiration for teachers and other professionals who work day after day to educate our city's children.

I consulted on word of mouth marketing initiatives and promotions for Guinness, Stop & Shop, Disney, and other clients.

Yes, I starred on the FOX Reality Television hit Paradise Hotel back in 2003. It was crazy, it was fun, it was a unique experience, and I'd never do it again. :-)The show continues to air and re-air in 23 countries around the world.

I was the top seller in the country out of the the Boston office for Radio Disney, the kids and parents radio arm of the Walt Disney Company.

I helped put myself through college at Boston U as the Crunch n Munch Guy. I raised sales over 400% and created a local media phenomenon. Appearing on ESPN's Sportscenter was an amazing experience. If you're reading this and you actually remember those days....YOU RULE!!!!