Tom Porter is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and recognized authority on branding, marketing and advertising. He was the president and CEO of one of the Midwest’s most respected marketing communications agencies which he sold 22 years after founding the company. Clients were local, regional and national advertisers including John Deere, Brunswick, Meredith Corporation, Disney and the U.S. Senior Golf Open. Always an outdoor enthusiast and former marathon runner he enjoys whitewater rafting, bicycling, fishing and long-distance walking. He subscribes to the notion that American business ethics are currently at an all-time low. Porter hopes that in some small way the principles and lessons that have created abundance in the natural world for billions of years will be utilized in the business world to help re-set our moral standards and create new possibilities for how we run and grow our organizations.He recently released a new book: All I Need To Know About Business I Learned From A Duck - Business Lessons From Nature. It's a back to nature approach to helping companies solve their business problems ... which is the exact opposite direction most companies are taking!A fresh, entertaining and sometimes controversial voice on the subject of how to fix America's small to medium-sized businesses, you will never separate business theory and practices from Mother Nature as you once did.

Founder of a non-profit organization whose mission is to enhance the quality of life of its members by providing educational information, and access to discounts on goods, services and benefits utilizing the collective purchasing power of all members. Over 140,000 members across the country.

Providing business planning and marketing consulting based upon an innovative, performance-based holistic planning process that aligns and integrates strategy between and among an organizations most important assets – its employees, its customers and its brand.

Primary leadership force behind the marketing performance of this highly successful, recognized, and specialized national life insurance provider. Drove results in the areas of corporate marketing, marketing research, branding, segmentation, 1to1 communications, public relations and national advertising.

Spearheaded the growth of one of Iowa’s most recognized marketing communications and advertising agencies from zero clients and zero billings to over 50 employees servicing 35 clients fueling $18 million in capitalized billings. Drove performance in the areas of finance and operations, business development, creative services, account management and public relations.