Want to learn about the Renegade Mentality for your company?
Book Founder & CEO, Amy Jo Martin below.
Amy Jo Martin guides people down the black diamond slopes of business and life. She helps them navigate difficult paths, turning ideas into actions.
Amy Jo is the author of New York Times best-seller Renegades Write the Rules, host of the Why Not Now? Podcast and an angel investor. She’s the founder and CEO of Renegade Global, a human innovation company that unlocks positive disruption for both individuals and corporations. It is also home of the acclaimed Renegade Accelerator program.
Amy Jo has built two 7-figure companies over the past decade. She has a social media following of more than a 1 million people and was named the third most powerful woman on Twitter by Forbes.
Amy Jo founded her first company in 2009 to help corporations, celebrities and sports entities humanize their brands. Amy Jo has worked closely with world-renowned brands such as Hilton Worldwide, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Nike, Shaquille O’Neal and many others. Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com, and Baron Davis, NBA player, invested in the company and after a successful seven-year run growing the business globally into ten different countries, Amy Jo exited in 2016.
Prior to becoming an entrepreneur, Amy Jo worked for the NBA’s Phoenix Suns during the wild wild west days of digital and social media – there were no rules or regulations in place so she helped write the rules.
Amy Jo is also a contributor to Harvard Business Review and Fast Company. She has been featured in media outlets including Vanity Fair, TIME, Forbes, The New York Times, Fast Company, ESPN SportsCenter, USA Today, MSNBC and Newsweek. She travels the globe to speak and advocate for human innovation. Addressing in-person audiences as large as 10,000 to smaller, intimate groups of executives in nearly every industry.
Amy Jo resides in Austin, Texas with her husband, son and two Aussie Shepherds.
To learn more about Amy Jo Martin speaking at your next event, conference, retreat, workshop or custom experience, send your inquiry to: speaking@renegade.global.
Amy Jo is known for getting people off the sidelines of their lives and into the game playing full-out offense. Her style of taking massive — intentional — action is contagious. Speaking Topics include: Renegades Write the Rules, Humanize to Monetize, There’s No Finish line to Innovation, Humans Connect with Humans, Not Logos. Throughout her career, Amy Jo has had more than 300 vulnerable and intimate interviews with the world’s most well-known Renegades. During these discussions she has helped to dissect their critical "Why Not Now?" moments when they navigated across the messy bridge from idea to action, dreaming to doing. Amy Jo has spotted consistent rules - Renegade Rules - that have surfaced within her research.
These are tangible, tactical steps they can take immediately. She shares the colorful stories and formula with her audience as she guides them through their own Why Not Now? ideas so they can green light their ideas literally while sitting in the audience. After working with some of the world’s most progressive innovator’s over the past 20 years and writing a NYT best-selling book on the topic, Amy Jo shares tangible, practical ways to innovate and humanize your personal brand — to build relationships that convert. She will discuss how your personal brand strategy can be leveraged to have a positive, revenue-generating, impact on your life and career.
“Amy Jo has changed the game of how businesses and brands approach communication. She’s a masterful strategist, true trailblazer and will continue to be an innovative presence.”
