Rana Florida

  • New York, NY
  • Range USD 10,001 - 20,000

Tagline: Business Management

When the world’s leading corporations need direction or winning market strategies, they turn to Rana Florida, the CEO of the Creative Class Group. The influential author and businesswoman has an impressive roster of clients including BMW, Johnson and Johnson, Zappos, and several government bodies. Her expertise and creativity were also key to the foundation and […]

When the world’s leading corporations need direction or winning market strategies, they turn to Rana Florida, the CEO of the Creative Class Group.

The influential author and businesswoman has an impressive roster of clients including BMW, Johnson and Johnson, Zappos, and several government bodies. Her expertise and creativity were also key to the foundation and development of massive e-commerce site, Shop.ca, which she continues to advise.

Rana brings more than two decades of experience in corporate strategy, communications and marketing, having directed global strategic communications for HMSHost, the world’s largest airport developer, as well as having executed marketing initiatives for Disney and Starbucks in addition to her events experience working with The Atlantic, The Aspen Institute, and The Knight Foundation.

Rana Florida business expertise is frequently sought out by The Today Show, Fox news, and MSNBC’s The Cycle. Her book, Upgrade — Taking Your Work and Life From Ordinary to Extraordinary was a “Business Best Seller” and is based on her numerous years of guiding clients and interviewing top-notch entrepreneurial minds such as Mark Cuban and Andre Agassi.

Aside from being a dynamic business woman and widely read columnist, Rana is an avid philanthropist and actively involved in the arts and cultural scenes of Miami and Toronto, both of which she currently calls home.

As Chief Executive Officer of the Creative Class Group, Rana Florida manages new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global operations serving such diverse clients as BMW, Converse, IBM, Cirque du Soleil, Audi, Zappos, and Starwood Hotels – to name just a few.

Rana Florida | Business Management Speaker

Her one-on-one high profile interviews have covered notables – from President Bill Clinton and First Lady Michelle Obama to tennis great Andre Agassi and NBA owner (and TV star) Mark Cuban, from chefs Jeans-George Vongerichten and Mario Batali to singer Nelly Furtado and fashion designer Tory Burch, from the United Nations Director of Girl Up to world renowned architects Peter Marino and Zaha Hadid – and many more.

The thought-provoking chronicler of Creative Spaces for HGTV and the Huffington Post, highlighting public and private spaces that epitomize creativity, innovation, and design, Rana is particularly interested in the public-private intersection, and today serves as Director of the FIU-Miami Creative City Initiative, a collaboration demonstrating how creativity, culture, and design can drive a regional economy.

She is also heavily involved in philanthropic work.  She is currently an appointed member of the United Nations Global Network on Digital Technologies and Sustainable Urbanization for UN Habitat and serves on the board of directors for the Olympics Committee, Canadian Freestyle Ski Association.

Rana Florida is also continues to work with the  Design-Exchange and Girls E Mentorship. She previously lent her expertise to the boards of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, Airports Council International in Washington, D.C., the Council for International Visitors, the The Founders Junior Council of the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Isabella Blow Foundation.

Rana’s corporate board work includes board member for the online retailer Shop.ca, juror for the Marketing Magazine Awards in Design and Chair of the Travel & Leisure Rebel Awards, Le Miami.

Rana Florida holds a Bachelor of Arts in communications and a MBA in marketing and management. Her book, Upgrade — Taking Your Work and Life From Ordinary to Extraordinary (McGraw Hill, 2013) was a ‘Business Best Seller,’ by Tattered Cover, the largest independent bookstore retailer in the U.S. and The Globe and Mail, Editor’s Pick.

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Rana Florida is the CEO of the Creative Class Group, managing new business development, marketing, consulting, research and global operations. The firm’s clients include BMW, Converse, Starwood, IBM, Philips, Pinewood Studios, Zappos, Kraft and Johnson & Johnson to name just a few.

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