Ann Handley

Ann Handley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, keynote speaker, and the world’s first Chief Content Officer.

Ann speaks and writes about how you can rethink the way your business markets. Cited in Forbes as the most influential woman in Social Media and recognized by ForbesWoman as one of the top 20 women bloggers, Ann Handley is the Chief Content Officer of MarketingProfs, a training and education company with the largest community of marketers in its category.

She was a long time monthly columnist for Entrepreneur magazine, is a member of the LinkedIn Influencer program, and the co-author of the bestselling book on content marketing, Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite Your Business (2011). The book has been translated into nine languages, including Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Italian, Portuguese. Her most recent book, Everybody Writes: Your Go-To Guide to Creating Ridiculously Good Content (2014) is a Wall Street Journal bestseller.

She currently has more than 350,000 followers on Twitter and writes about content, marketing and life at the highly entertaining AnnHandley.com.

A pioneer in digital marketing, Ann is the co-founder of ClickZ.com, which was one of the first sources of interactive marketing news and commentary. She started her career as a business journalist and editor.

Ann is based in Boston, Massachusetts.