Giovanni Rodriguez is a consultant, speaker, and author on organizational leadership and corporate communications. As co-founder and managing partner of The Conversation Group, he works with brands and organizations as diverse as the New York Stock Exchange, Ribbit (now British Telecom), Verizon Business, Alcatel Lucent, Unilever, Super Rewards (now Adknowledge), and Singularity University, a groundbreaking experiment in higher education headquartered at the NASA Ames campus in Silicon Valley. A frequent speaker on the social-technology circuit, Giovanni has instigated an ongoing debate about the future of various marketing and communication disciplines. His work and opinion have been featured in numerous publications including PRWeek, Brandweek, BusinessWeek and Forbes. He is research fellow at the Society for New Communications Research, and a graduate of Princeton University.