{"id":1004,"date":"2020-10-26T12:55:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/?page_id=1004"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:53:06","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T22:53:06","slug":"ken-banks-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/?page_id=1004","title":{"rendered":"Ken Banks Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/ken-banks.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1015\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ken Banks brings more than 30 years of retail marketing experience to his consulting and presentations business, where he specializes in helping companies to develop effective brand strategies.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A retail marketing executive with companies like PetSmart, Circuit City, Eckerd, and Procter &amp; Gamble and advertising agencies like Doner and Fahlgren, Ken has also served on the advisory boards at both Texas A&amp;M, University of Florida and Wayne State University. He has been an adjunct professor in graduate marketing studies at Schiller International University and University of Florida. He is a graduate of Wayne State University in Detroit and the Thuderbird Graduate School at Arizona State University.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Winner of numerous industry awards and author and contributor of several articles and books (<em>Speak More<\/em> (NSA) and <em>Marketing Magic<\/em> (Insight Publishing), Ken recently co-authored the book, <em>BrainBranding &#8211; Activate the Brain ~ Stimulate Your Brand <\/em>with Robyn Winters. He has also been honored with the American Advertising Federation&#8217;s Silver Medal award and by being inducted into the Retail Advertising Hall of Fame. A professional member of NSA since 1996, Ken has spoken at the NSA Winter Workshop and has written articles for SPEAKER magazine and co-authored with Robyn a chapter of NSA\u2019s SPEAK MORE book published in 2012. The National Speakers Association (Central Florida) awarded its George Morrissey Lifetime Achievement Award to Ken in 2010.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Ken has been publishing his blog, WHAT\u2019S BRANDING GOT TO DO WITH IT? for over 15 years providing insights on branding to marketing executives and speakers nationwide.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Banks brings more than 30 years of retail marketing experience to his consulting and presentations business, where he specializes in helping companies to develop effective brand strategies. A retail marketing executive with companies like PetSmart, Circuit City, Eckerd, and Procter &amp; Gamble and advertising agencies like Doner and Fahlgren, Ken has also served on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":53,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1004\/revisions\/1017"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kenbanks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}