Founder and CEO of The Knowing Agency and international speaker, Christene Marie empowers executives and organizations to position their corporate and personal brands with authenticity in order to establish an emotional connection with their target audience at every touch point of their customer journey. Together with her team, Christene has led communications for Amazon’s inaugural event in DEI, trained entrepreneurs in Honduras in partnership with USAID international programming, and guided marketing initiatives and storytelling on behalf of the Kellogg Foundation’s initiative to bring equitable opportunities to persons of color and children living in poverty. Among nationally acclaimed clients, such as Toyota, Walgreens, and the NAACP, Christene is passionate about forwarding the impact of organizations making significant transformations in their local communities. In addition to serving as a featured speaker on today’s top digital marketing stages and podcasts and as a Partner in her family business, which celebrated 100 years in 2022, Christene Marie debuted in her first feature film set to release at the end of 2023. Weaving the creative with entrepreneurial acumen to facilitate a deeper understanding of the human soul, Christene’s proprietary Knowing Process accentuates empathy-driven branding and measurement marketing to drive emotional connections and measurable, scalable results against bottom-line goals.