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Ted Coiné is Chief Marketing Officer of Meddle.it, an enterprise SaaS firm at the cutting edge of content marketing through employee advocacy. In the Social Age, a company is only as strong as its talent. Your talent deserves a voice!
Ted is a Forbes Top 10 Social Media Power Influencer and an Inc. Top 100 Leadership Expert. This stance at the crossroads of social and leadership gave Ted a unique perspective to identify the demise of Industrial Age management and the birth of the Social Age. The result, after five years of trend watching, interviewing and intensive research, is his latest book, A World Gone Social: How Companies Must Adapt to Survive.
An Inc. Top 100 Speaker and one of Business News Daily’s 15 Twitter Accounts Every Entrepreneur Should Follow, Ted is also a serial business founder and three-time CEO. He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife and two daughters.
More apropos than all that to today’s chat, Ted has mild dyslexia. As an adult, it’s nothing to complain about compared to many: mostly misspelling and number transpositioning, especially when he’s tired, and sometimes trouble pronouncing the words that he reads. But it caused no end of trouble in his school. In first grade his teacher called him “retarded,” and in Junior High School his principle told his parents that he was “probably retarded.” This type of thing leaves an impression on a child, as many of the members of the Axschat community know full well. Perhaps that explains at least part of why Ted is so passionately opposed to discrimination and the labels that people use to hold others down, intentionally or not.