Visitor Counter ADVISORY COUNCIL                 Melissa Dawn Johnson President Velvet Suite Marketing   The authority on authentic Global Branding and Personal Transformation, Melissa Dawn Johnson has a proven track record of elevating the world’s greatest brands. Johnson is an on-air contributor to CNN through Morning Motivation as well as career contributor to the Huffingtonpost.com and Essence Magazine.   As the author of the book, Brand Me. Make Your Mark: Turn Passion into Profit (Ambassador Press), she is a pioneer in the personal branding movement. Johnson is President of Velvet Suite Marketing Consulting Group, Inc. ® (www.velvetsuite.com) a world-class peak performance experience committed to brand transformation from the inside out. Velvet Suite Marketing Consulting Group, Inc. ® is the world-class peak performance experience committed to brand transformation from the inside out. The hallmark of the firm is a proven next-generation leadership system called ID3 ™, which first launched with the National Football League. This opened doors for leadership consulting for some of the world’s most admired companies including the National Basketball Association, The NCAA, Gillette, P&G, Kraft, Pepsi Bottling, Time, Citi and more. She also launched Brand Me International (www.brandmelive.com), an online community of global “mepreneurs” helping thousands to launch into entrepreneurship by turning passion into profit.   Melissa is the “dream designer” to world renowned clients such as World Cup Star, Oguchi Onyewu, NBA All-Star Carmelo Anthony, WNBA Star Alana Beard, Grammy Award-winning artist Common as well as a host of pro-athletes, civic leaders, reality-stars, personalities and politicians. She has designed multi-million dollar partnerships with personalities and properties such as Shania Twain, Jessica Simpson, Mary J. Blige, Universal Pictures, Discovery Network and ABC.   She is a classically trained marketer groomed in global branding during her tenures at Procter & Gamble, Victoria’s Secret, Baxter Healthcare and Nationwide. Her creative influence received industry-wide recognition. She launched the Swiffer brand, re-energized the iconic Mr. Clean brand, created the first multi-cultural marketing recommendation for Victoria’s Secret Stores, expanded Crest into new categories as well as re-branded Nationwide Insurance.   Johnson received a Master of Science degree from the Integrated Marketing Communications (IMC) program at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. She graduated cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Public Relations and a minor in Business Administration from Otterbein College in Westerville, Ohio.   Reared in Fayetteville, North Carolina, Johnson learned the value of service at an early age. She attended Otterbein College on a community service scholarship, where she served as coordinator of the Indianola Middle School Program, a nationally recognized mentor program, honored by President Bill Clinton for its innovative impact in bringing hundreds of college students into community service. Johnson was recently inducted into the Otterbein College African American Hall of Fame in 2009. She currently runs the Passion 2 Profit Apprenticeship Initiative, a youth leadership program at Velvet Suite offering the opportunity to develop entrepreneurship experience to next generation leaders.   Johnson currently resides in Atlanta, GA and enjoys extreme fitness, dancing, mentoring, cooking, spending time with family and of course, sports.                     © copyright World Brand Congress - 12, All rights Reserved.