Melissa Pierce
Filmmaker, Risktaker, Innovator, and Idea Pollinator
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Melissa is an engaging speaker who knows her subject matter really well. She doesn't lecture as a "guru", she's built what she has by learning on-the-go and now shares that experience with the rest of us. Melissa makes actually getting started much less intimidating with her "Let's just get started" approach - it makes you feel like bumps in the road are not only ok, but opportunities in the rough.
SXSW 2010
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Besides being the director and producer of the award winning, bootstrapped documentary series, Life in Perpetual Beta, Melissa Pierce is a mother, life coach, author, and sought after motivational and business speaker. Melissa's passionate and humorous delivery style has charmed audiences on subjects as varied as online video, social media, the internet revolution, online community development, crowdsourcing, living your passion, and raising smart creative children in the digital age. She has been featured on nationally syndicated television and radio programs, been a guest on several highly rated podcasts, has one of Technorati's top 100 blogs, and is cited as an inspiration in books and magazines alike.
Melissa has presented at conferences and film festivals all over the United States including South by Southwest, SOBcon, Digital Capitol Week, The 140 Character Conference, The Brooklyn DUMBO Arts Festival, and Gnomedex (at which she keynoted). She has been hired as a speaker by a variety of companies ranging from cosmetics to internet marketing, and is a sought after influencer having represented companies such as Panasonic, Nokia, Swarovski Crystal, Chevrolet, and Whrrl (acquired by Groupon in 2011).
Melissa is the principal at Optimist Lens Production Company, founder of Anywhere Admin Virtual Assistants, and is a social media and creativity consultant. She is a board member of Hollarback.org, a campaign to help end street harassment, the organizer of the Chicago Women Developers Network It which teachers girls and women computer programming, she is also a proud member of Mensa.
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Melissa is an engaging speaker who knows her subject matter really well. She doesn't lecture as a "guru", she's built what she has by learning on-the-go and now shares that experience with the rest of us. Melissa makes actually getting started much less intimidating with her "Let's just get started" approach - it makes you feel like bumps in the road are not only ok, but opportunities in the rough.
SXSW 2010
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Melissa is a candid, vibrant, and effusive speaker.
The world is transforming before our very eyes. Technology, the economy, and shifting political structures are forcing everyone to re-think, re-invest and re-position who they are in this world. Melissa spoke about her own personal journey and process of re-invention through film and social media.
Melissa will inspire audiences to embrace uncertainty and accept their lives as unfinished products.
Gnomdex 2010
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Melissa's knowledge of how people think combined with her charm and wit create a great environment to discuss what some people fear the most... the future.
Dumbo Arts Festival
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What I love most about Melissa Pierce as a speaker is her fearlessness, authenticity and spontaneity. She is an engaging and passionate film maker and Life In Perpetual Beta is a great film showcasing some of the leading thinkers who are creating this current phase of our technology and communications zeitgeist. At the white hot center of the cultural transformation we wre currently undergoing, you will find Melissa Pierce acting as Witness.
Gnomedex 10, Seattle WA
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