I deliver powerful, educational sessions on customer-centricty, marketing and AI.

My unique perspective of entreprenuership, strategy, creative, and technology provides a one of a kind viewpoint for your audience.
Corporate Event or Conference
The Omniscient Buyer
Buyers are now powered by AI and organizations must adapt.
AI has reshaped the game. Buyers are no longer passive recipients of your pitch; they’re armed with AI copilots, curated insights, synthesized reviews, and side-by-side comparisons—all before they ever speak to sales.
With provocative insight and practical frameworks, I deliver:
  • How AI has fundamentally changed buyer behavior and information discovery
  • Why traditional sales and marketing strategies are increasingly ineffective
  • The rise of buyer simulators, AI agents, and the invisible battles being won or lost inside search engines, private GPTs, and digital workspaces
  • The essential skill of AI Engine Optimization—crafting your narrative not just for humans, but for the AI curators shaping perception and preference

Corporate Event or Conference
The Buyer-Centric Operating System
Your most impactful growth lever is aligning and revolving around buyers and customers.
Customer-centricity has never been more important to growth. You can either be a buyer-centric organization that thrives or a company-centric organization that plateaus.
But it can't just be a philosophy or poster on the wall. It has to be systematic, measurable and evolving.
In my sessions, I provide:
  • Clarity on how customer-centric thinking impacts product, marketing, sales, delivery and service
  • The forces that pull companies away from their buyers and how to fight them
  • Rethinking how your understand your buyers and customers better in the age of AI
  • An operational approach to installing a system--not a philosohpy--into your organization to be customer-centric.

Corporate Event or Conference
Evolving From Personas To Twins
Personas are dead. Great marketers create Twins.
Buyer understanding is one of the most powerful tools for a marketing team to be successful.
But many marketers are still using Personas and a dated approach to understanding their audience.
This session delivers for marketers:
  • The impact of buyer understanding across the funnel
  • How to create deep, accurate Twins instead of Personas
  • Leveraging AI to bring Twins to life for daily support in delivering better marketing
Keynotes start at $10,000 (includes travel in the continental U.S.).

Conference, Group, Podcast & TV Appearances
  • Entrepreneurs Organization
  • Vistage
  • NBC Nightly News
  • Digital Summit
  • JumpStart Accelerator
  • American Advertising Federation
  • COSE Conferences 2008 – 2016
  • The AI Forum
  • Gorilla Group
  • Independent Practitioners Group (IPG)
  • JCU EA
  • Cleveland 20/30 Club
  • E-Marketing Techniques Conference
  • NOCA
  • Proforma Annual Conference
  • ISES Cleveland
  • Parma Area, Streetsboro & Richfield Chambers
  • Cleveland Entrepreneur’s Club
  • Cleveland Technical Societies Council
  • Business Boot Camp
  • Midtown Brews
  • Software Freedom Day
  • WordCamp Dayton
  • Sales & Marketing Executives (SME)
  • HW&Co. Nonprofit Conference
  • John Carroll University
  • Outside Magazine
  • Road To Success at Lakeland Community College
  • University of Akron
  • Greater Digital Markers Meetup
  • Greater Cleveland Society of Association Executives (GCSAE)
  • AI Biz Podcast
  • Make Each Click Count Podcast
  • Masters In Marketing Agency Podcast
  • The Millennial Mastermind Podcast
  • Tech Founder Show Host
  • SaaS Founder Show Host
  • Monthly Insivia Seminars

Speaking Reviews
"Andy delivered pure gold. His buyer-centric approach and decades of experience gave the conversation incredible depth and actionable clarity. Every founder and business leader will walk away with real strategies to grow smarter and stay laser-focused on what truly matters."
- AI Biz Podcast Host
Go get Andy Halko! If you are looking for a way to dimensionalize the concepts of collaboration, team work and purpose, you will love Andy Halko. I am honored to have a wonderful marketing team. They are creative, witty, smart and respectful of one another. But we were overdue for a meaningful team gathering, one that would educate and challenge this very well-read and highly productive team. Andy was able to produce what felt like a one-of-a-kind, 2-1/2 hour exploration of team dynamics and one’s role and responsibility to them. Completely fresh. Great pace. Andy impressed me with his on-the-spot agility, adapting to the fluid conversation and areas of interest advanced by the team. I not only recommend Andy, but fully intend to bring him back for a refresher to insure we are applying everything we learned.
- Private Corporate Event
I asked Andy to present to a group of 80 entrepreneurs/business owners on the topic of "The Future of Technology". Andy's presentation content and delivery was spectacular. The topics presented were very well researched and Andy's method of explaining the direction of technology and the implications of future technology made the presentation very tangible and relevant to our audience of entrepreneurs. As a presentation style, Andy was conversational and interactive with the audience ensuring audience engagement and interaction. Our group was very impressed with what was presented and what we learned from Andy. The presentation was both eye opening and provoking helping our group of business owners to consider future implications of technology in our own businesses and industries.
- Entreprenuer's Association
I have been fortunate enough to hear Andy present on two different occasions, and I would easily jump at the opportunity to hear him again. Andy is a very engaging speaker, knowledgeable on his topics, and he makes you want to know more. If you have the chance to work with Andy, TAKE IT!
- Conference Attendee
I have attended the Business Boot Camp: How to Optimize SEO & Analytics delivered by Andy Halko who I consider one of the best speakers I have ever experienced. I really got a lot out of his presentation. He provided excellent tips, had an answer for every question and I like that he didn’t rush through it. Thank you Andy, it has been a great pleasure to attend your session.
- Bootcamp Attendee
I met Andy Halko at the 2014 Digital Summit in Atlanta, where he spoke on a panel I moderated and also gave a 20-minute solo presentation. Not only is Andy knowledgeable and passionate about business strategy, marketing, design, and technology, but he presents information with a confident, relaxed energy that you don't find in many speakers. He holds the audience's attention and gets his points across succinctly and creatively. Book him as a speaker or panelist for your next event, and you'll have powerful results.
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Andy Halko

Founder & CEO, Author, Speaker, Dad of Two Girls, Mohawk Dude.

Andy Halko