Decades of Hands-On Thought Leadership Experience
A Track Record of Thought Leadership Success
Daniel Kehrer is Founder of ThoughtLeaders.coach (TLC) and its parent company, BizBest Media Corp. He began his career as a business journalist (Washington Post), syndicated columnist (Gannett; Forbes), business corespondent (Washington Financial News Bureau, WFNB) and is the author of six business books (Random House, Simon & Schuster, McGraw Hill, Kiplinger), working in Washington DC and New York.
His book on business risk-taking, first published by New York Times Books, was a best-seller, published in five languages worldwide; recommended by Forbes as "must reading for CEOs."
Now based in Los Angeles, he’s been a leading B2B, tech-focused thought leadership and content marketing specialist, working with startups and companies of all sizes for 20+ years. He has lectured on the importance of thought leadership for startups at UCLA Anderson School of Management, where Daniel earned his MBA. As head of marketing and thought leadership for an advanced data analytics SaaS company (now part of TransUnion via two acquisitions; for $450M in 2016 and $3.1B in 2022) he evangelized thought leadership as a key pillar of success.
High-profile publication and website placements have included The New York Times, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, HBR Online, The Economist and numerous trade and industry publications and websites. While working in the data analytics field, he was named to the Top 100 Thought Leaders in Big Data & Analytics.
We Make all the Pieces Fit...for You
From Fine Tuning to Building From Scratch, Strategy to Execution, We Have You Covered!
TLC offers a full spectrum of expertise in disciplines that surround thought leadership, such as communications, content creation, editing and marketing.
We've designed and executed full-spectrum thought leadership, executive comms, content marketing and influencer relations programs globally and bring all of this experience, and more, to the table for each and every client.
What We Offer / What You'll Get
From Fine Tuning to Building From Scratch, Strategy to Execution, We Have You Covered!
Personalized & Customized
Every engagement is unique and completely tailored to your needs. We provide highly hands-on, customized and personal, attentive service. Thus we only work with a very small number of companies at any given time. And we stick with you for as long as it takes, working side-by-side, long term. We don't aspire to be the biggest. Just the best. Specializations: Our primary specializations are the B2B and tech sectors.
Strategy / Tactics / Execution
We'll help you get the "big ideas" and broad picture strategy for your thought leadership strategy right, determine the best tactics for YOUR situation, and set execution guidance and processes that ensure long-term success.
Fine tune what you already have underway
The thought leadership efforts you've been pursuing are falling short of goals and senior leadership is uncertain about its effectiveness. We can help establish the processes and best practices to transform it into all that it can be.
Just starting out?
We can help you build a highly-effective thought leadership program from the ground up and establish a thought leadership culture across your entire organization -- whether it's a few people, just you or thousands, globally.