Recipient of the American Marketing Association's 2020 Leonard L. Berry Award for “exceptional marketing books that have set the standard for excellence.” Author of "Legacy in the Making" (a Washington Post bestseller and one of Forbes' Top Ten Books of 2018), "The Method Method" (an Advertising Age Top Ten Marketing Book of 2011), and "Obsessive Branding Disorder" (one of Strategy+Business's Best Books of 2008). Reporter for The Atlantic, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, Fast Company, ESPN: The Magazine, SPIN, Entrepreneur, and MarketWatch, among others. Media appearances include ABC World News, CNN’s BookTV, NPR, South by Southwest, and The Colbert Report.Critical acclaim: “[A] timely call to arms... Conley is a keen observer and a trenchant critic” (The Boston Globe); “offers jaw-dropping reports” (The Wall Street Journal); “likably acid... tells great anecdotes [and] has a serious message for commerce” (The Guardian); “a deft journalist [who] asks a lot of good questions” (The Miami Herald); “his well-executed argument is convincing… a great read... a sophisticated, no-nonsense analysis” (GOOD Magazine); “an incisive investigation… Conley's perspective... is as alarming as it is stimulating” (Publisher’s Weekly); "Well, the doctor's prescription for you is to please come again, sir" (Stephen Colbert).Endorsements: Yvon Chouinard, Simon Sinek, Joseph Michelli, Adam Morgan, B. Joseph Pine II, Arthur Sadoun, Eric Schurenberg, Douglas Rushkoff, Jim Stengel, Alan Webber, Simon Mainwaring, Jonah Berger, Andrew Keen, Rohit Bhargava, Deb Dugan. Clients and collaborators: Cartier, Flexjet, Mont-Blanc, Lexus, Toyota, Ritz-Carlton, Saatchi & Saatchi, Bergdorf Goodman, The Championships, Wimbledon, Girls Who Code, Grey Goose, The Honest Company, The It Gets Better Project, Mogul, The New Yorker, NYX Cosmetics, Patagonia, (RED), Taylor Guitars, The Toronto Maple Leafs, Two Bit Circus.