I am an international strategic advisor & consultant, author, speaker, and educator. I am the founder and CEO of Identity Praxis, an advisory & consultancy firm specializing in digital identities and personal data management, market and business development, and marketing services to Fortune 500 companies, startups, and non-profits worldwide. I teach marketing, program and speak at public and private events on identity & data, business strategy, and marketing, and host a weekly meetup for the Tinderbox community on tools for thought and the 5Cs of personal knowledge management to unleash one's creative potential. I have Four Focus Areas: 1. Support my family, industry, society2. Help us all achieve The Identity Nexus—the equilibrium state where the reward-to-risk ratio of digital identities and personal data exchange between individuals, public, and private organizations are balanced. 3. To help develop and roll out Empowerment Tech to everyone—individuals, public, and private institutions. Among other activities, this will require that we help everyone embrace the "five-fold path to phygital sovereignty."4. To teach undergraduates, graduates, and industry professionals and to keep learning myself. My primary domains of professional and scholarly interest include but are not limited to, digital identities and personal data management, self-reliance (agency, autonomy, privacy, and self-sovereignty), strategic [mobile] marketing, technology and innovation, and the 5Cs of knowledge management for unleashing creative potential. Within each subject area, countless frameworks, processes, governance models, business models, regulations, technologies, and more must be considered.I have authored and co-authored several books, including “Mobile Marketing Essentials,” “Mobile Marketing for Dummies,” and “Web Marketing for Dummies.” My publications include books, journals like The International Journal of Mobile Marketing, articles, and videos on personal data and identity management, business strategy, personal knowledge management, mobile and digital marketing, and The Identity Nexus™. I love to speak, write, research, teach, learn, innovate, cook, walk the dog, run, climb, travel and, most importantly, be of service!I earned my BS in Business Administration from Saint Mary’s College of California, an MBA from Santa Clara University, and a DBA from Golden Gate University ("Predicting Personal Information Management System Use—see https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4879650).