Why choose Dr. Burt for your audience?

Professional Experience

What

Dr. Burt has owned Executive Marketing Information (EMI Research Solutions, LLC) since 1994. His team’s customer satisfaction studies have helped organizations of all size improve their bottom lines by opening a strategic dialogue with customers.

He literally grew up in the profession of marketing, working in his family’s little grocery store and starting his own auction business at the age of 17. He became a licensed real estate agent at the age of 19 to fund his college education. Upon graduation he worked as an account representative for Unilever in the Oklahoma and Texas markets before being hired as a training consultant for Dale Carnegie Training Systems International.
 

Why You Care

Your audience will hear a practitioner, not someone who just theorizes about what it must be like to do the stuff they talk about!

Academic Credentials

What

Doctorate of Education (Ed.D) Oklahoma State University. Teaches courses in  entrepreneurship, sales, marketing and organizational design at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Why You Care

Somebody besides Dr. Burt says so! Graduate credentials demonstrate a candidate’s ability to work independently and solve research problems from multiple approaches. Teaching requires remaining current in today’s emerging trends and tailoring delivery to a variety of learning styles.

Professional Certifications

  • Certified Marketing Executive – Sales and Marketing Executives International
  • Certified Quality Manager – American Society for Quality
  • Professional Certified Marketer – American Marketing Association (first Oklahoman to earn certification)

 

Why You Care

Earning professional certifications require extensive examinations and continuing education to maintain, demonstrating a commitment to the profession.

Recognized Business Leader

What

  • Past-President, American Marketing Association
  • Past-President, National Speaker’s Association
  • Represented Oklahoma at the American Marketing Association’s Leadership Summit 5 times
  • Past-Chair, North Metro Area Council of the Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
  • Past-President, Oklahoma State Auctioneers Association
  • Past Board Member, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce
  • Certified Marketing Executive Charter Founding Fellow – Sales and Marketing Executives International
  • Past Board Member and Founding Certification Chair, Sales & Marketing Executives International of Oklahoma

 

Why You Care

Dr. Burt is one of you! He has a proven track record in being elected by his peers, professionals like YOU in the business community who entrusted the brands of their organizations with him.

Accomplishments

What

Twice elected as NSA – Oklahoma Member of the Year (2011 and 2012)

2008 – Received a lifetime achievement award from the Oklahoma City Chapter of the American Marketing Association. In 2010 the chapter voted to call it the “Dr. Burt Smith Lifetime Achievement Award.”

2002 Oklahoma State Champion Auctioneer – Only champion in contest history to hold titles of reserve champion, runner-up, and champion. (Also held records for  being a finalist – without winning- for several years. Talk about always being a bridesmaid!)

National Chapter Excellence Award Winner, American Marketing Association – An honor no chapter president had accomplished before his presidency.

Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Member

For 5 years was among the highest rated Dale Carnegie Instructors on customer satisfaction surveys.

First Oklahoman to earn the American Marketing Association’s Professional Certified Marketer designation.

Chosen for the Journal Record’s Centennial Class of “Achievers Under 40”

Twice selected to the Oklahoma City Business Journal’s “40 Under 40”

1994 Dale Carnegie Sales Talk Champion

Why You Care

Dr. Burt is experienced in making things happen!

He also knows plenty about failure and the folly of chasing after things that seem important but end up being meaningless. He would be happy to tell you those stories if you want to book him for his “Don’t be a schlep like me” series for a month or two!

Many people like to think that they’ll find balance after they find success. But in reality, achieving balance is success.” – Brian Koslow