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Our Founder

Christy Vogel: A Marketing Leader with a Purpose

Christy Vogel - Founder, Marketing Direction

Christy Vogel is passionate about her mission to ignite joy in everyone she meets. She leaves her mark in the industry by providing her clients with expert marketing talent and results-driven programs to help them reach their true potential. With more than 25 years of marketing experience, Christy understands how vital marketing leadership can be to the success of any corporation.

During her marketing career, Christy has served in executive leadership roles for both agencies and corporations at a variety of companies. She’s worked with hundreds of business owners throughout the US and some of her most exciting projects involved working with companies including:

  • Amazon
  • Chewy
  • Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
  • Walt Disney Pictures
  • NASCAR
  • UFC

Her success stems from her firm belief that people come first. She understands that the right relationship between a company and its people can make or break their ability to achieve marketing success for a brand.

As a result, Christy’s been featured on Fox Business News and has been quoted by business publications, franchise websites and podcasts across the country.

She’s donated company time to South Florida Make-A-Wish Foundation and also served on the boards of USF Digital Marketing and Rotary Club of Tampa. She also speaks to college students about their career journeys and is a USF mentor.

Christy was twice honored with Tampa Bay Business Journal’s Best in the Biz Readers’ Choice Award for Favorite Public Relations Marketing Professional and was twice nominated for Tampa Bay Business Journal’s BusinessWoman of the Year. Her firm, Marketing Direction is a proud top 5 member of USF Fast 56 which honors the world’s top 56 fastest growing businesses led by University of South Florida alum, has been on Tampa Bay Business Journal’s top women-owned businesses list since 2015, Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 15 Largest Marketing Firms list and certified as a women-owned business by WEBENC International.

Her latest endeavor is creating Sounding Joy, a non profit to ignite joy in helping children avoid a life of addiction by providing them with hearing aids their families can’t afford. She’s personally experienced the difficulty of having access to hearing aids as a child and an adult so she’s passionate about helping others in this area. She shared her story of resilience on the TEDx stage in 2023.

To book Christy as a keynote speaker for your next event, please click here or call 818-417-9444.

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