Tom Porter is an author, speaker, entrepreneur and recognized authority on branding, marketing and advertising. He was the president and CEO of one of the Midwest’s most respected marketing communications agencies which he sold 22 years after founding the company. Clients were local, regional and national advertisers including John Deere, Brunswick, Meredith Corporation, Disney and the U.S. Senior Golf Open.

Always an outdoor enthusiast and former marathon runner he enjoys whitewater rafting, bicycling, fishing and long-distance walking. He subscribes to the notion that American business ethics are currently at an all-time low. Porter hopes that in some small way the principles and lessons that have created abundance in the natural world for billions of years will be utilized in the business world to help re-set our moral standards and create new possibilities for how we run and grow our organizations.

He recently released a new book: All I Need To Know About Business I Learned From A Duck - Business Lessons From Nature. It's a back to nature approach to helping companies solve their business problems ... which is the exact opposite direction most companies are taking!

A fresh, entertaining and sometimes controversial voice on the subject of how to fix America's small to medium-sized businesses, you will never separate business theory and practices from Mother Nature as you once did.