Experience: Vickie Sullivan is internationally recognized as the top market strategist for experts. Specializing in personal branding for high-fee markets, she has launched thousands of thought leaders since 1987. Sullivan is a popular speaker throughout the US and Canada on why buyers buy in lucrative markets and strategies that position experts for those opportunities. Her market intelligence updates are distributed in 18 countries. Sullivan has served twice on the editorial board for Professional Speaker Magazine, and currently serves as contributing editor for RainToday.com, a prominent community of 30,000 professional service firms. Her articles have been published in Presentations and USA Today magazines and the Handbook of Business Strategy. Sullivan has also been quoted in mainstream media such as Fortune.com, The New York Times, and Investor's Business Daily. Her work and views have appeared in books such as Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America by Barbara Ehrenreich, Secrets of Six-Figure Women by Barbara Stanney, and Getting Started in Consulting by Alan Weiss.The first in her family to graduate from college, Sullivan earned her BA in journalism, with a public relations emphasis at the University of Oklahoma. She lives in Tempe, AZ with her husband Larry, her favorite geek.