Advancing Your Skills with Certification

Credentials or credibility, which one? Knowledge and skills, when is enough, enough? In this episode, we explore how certifications can help you move forward in your career and how to pick a program that is right for you. This week's guest is Jennifer Radke, CEO of the National Institute of Social Media! Welcome to Strategy Talks, where we're all about helping you take your business or organization to the next level! Are you feeling stuck or bored with your current strategy? Well, hold on tight because we're here to kick-start your social media game and inject some excitement back into your business!In each episode, we bring you 25 minutes of pure strategy gold! Our guests are experts in their fields and they're ready to share their ideas, stories, and examples with you. Get ready to learn some easy-to-implement social media strategies, business concepts, and content ideas that actually work.Whether you're a marketer or a small business owner, Strategy Talks is the podcast you need to help grow your business or organization. So, what are you waiting for? Tune in now and let's get strategizing!Jennifer Radke is an international speaker, author, and strategic business leader with over 15 years of experience in sales and business leadership. The real-world solutions she brings to the business stem from her experience coaching, developing, and training employees and have made her a highly sought-after speaker and trainer for businesses of all sizes. Before purchasing the National Institute for Social Media (NISM) in 2016, “the social CEO” was the owner and chief strategist at Socially Inspired, a social media training and consulting company that is still serving small and medium-sized businesses today. She has previously served on the board for Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota (WeMN) and currently volunteers her time speaking about the professional uses of social media for those in job transition. She also keeps her social media skills fresh by acting as the Social Media Strategist for the Feed My Starving Children South Metro MobilePack in her hometown in southern Minnesota.Jennifer has an MS in Organizational Leadership in addition to being a NISM-certified Social Media Strategist (SMS) and instructor.She is also currently an Associate Professor at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota teaching Ethics in Social Media and the author of Stories from the Social Side: Advice from Marketing Professionals to Marketing Professionals.