Katie Leimkuehler, the founder and CEO of Leimkuehler Media, is an expert social media consultant and coach who advises and empowers business and individuals on the best social media strategies and demonstrates how to take their social media to the next level. She has over seven years of experience coaching corporations and showing them how to implement a winning social media strategy by providing the tools and techniques to launch, grow and manage their social media presence. She has spoken at Chicago Social Media 2013, Coldwell Banker, KI’s NeoCon Social Media Webinar, among others.

Katie oversees and manages the social media for International Studies Abroad including the #ISAWorldWideAlert system for students, has led successful social campaigns including new Twitter Chats, #ISAchat, and manages the company’s 40+ student blogger program. She was also the Manager of Social Media and Communications at the International Interior Design Association and prior to that was a Journalist and Community Manager at the Chicago Tribune. She has been a contributing writer for several publications including Social Media Today, Built in Colorado, and Technori, Lifehack, The Sun Times, and Networlding.