Sameer Somal
Entrepreneur, Speaker & Educator
Reviews
"Thank you for your engaging and interactive presentation on the topic of digital transformation at our executive strategy retreat in the Cayman Islands."
Marcelo Suárez Castillo
Managing Director, Institutional Asset Management
Scotiabank & Trust Ltd.
"Thank you for everything you did for BGS at the Global Leadership Summit! Several of us were talking about your energy and enthusiasm, along with your warm personality. We decided we want to be like you when we grow up!"
Christina Carosella
CEO
Beta Gamma Sigma
"I wanted to thank you again for presenting your Digital Revolution education series at your annual Advisor Summit in Puerto Rico this year. Your contribution was truly valuable to our community. I received encouraging positive feedback from the attendees."
Robert Martin
Managing Director
Symmetry Partners
"Thank you for presenting at our 2018 Conference in Arizona this past October. While our leadership team at Mick Law enjoyed the most memorable presentation, the feedback we received from our clients was exceptional."
Zia Sabir
Vice President Business Development
Mick Law
About Sameer Somal
About Sameer Somal Sameer Somal is the CEO and Co-Founder of Blue Ocean Global Technology. When he is not helping clients improve their digital presence, supporting causes he believes in, Sameer is usually found sharing perspective and simplifying complex topics at events globally. He is a published writer and subject matter expert. Sameer was named an Iconic Leader Creating a Better World for All by Women Economic Forum.
Speaking
Speaking engagement:
Keynote | Conference Speaker, Trainer | Mentor, Moderator | Interviewer | Emcee, Webinar | Live Video, Presenter, Interview | Debate | Panel, Breakout Session, Master Class
Expertise:
Business | Management | Strategy, Leadership, Marketing | Sales | Service, Technology, Public Speaking | Storytelling
Field of Speaker:
Business Leaders, Legal Experts, Entrepreneurs
Best Audience:
Csuite/ Executives, Managers/ Supervisors, Young Professionals/ Young Talent, Sales, Women, Seniors
Travels from:
United States
Language:
English
Fee range:
from $5500 up to $14500
Topics
Building Relationship Capital On & Offline
The Digital Revolution is accelerating our access to knowledge and revolutionized how we communicate. Success in life is a function of both what we know and how we build interpersonal relationships. Networking is a learned skill and does not require the personality of an extrovert. A memorable introductory conversation and exchange of business cards will increase relationship capital after applying a process for patient and purposeful follow-up. Creating a network of trusted friends and colleagues, who will provide information, introductions, mentoring and partnership, will expand your personal and professional opportunity set.
An Introduction To Online Reputation Management
Our individual ability to build new relationships, foster trust, and earn respect all contributes to building a reputation. By its very definition, reputation is an intangible and complex concept because it is comprised of impressions, emotions and perceptions. All organizations achieve results from their reputation. The internet has empowered the consumer and revolutionized how information that was once printed in newspapers or shared on the nightly evening news can be created by anyone and accessed from a device that fits comfortably in the palm of our hand. Individual and firm success are now directly correlated with how and what is communicated online. Every day there are 5.5 billion searches performed for a plethora of reasons, including finding a restaurant in a new city, buying mom a gift, or researching the next firm to engage. The world is literally at our fingertips, but most people only bother to go through detailed information on first page of Google. In fact, 94% of people only look at the first page of Google search results. Consumers value interacting with businesses and service providers with positive online reputation. When promoted effectively online, digital marketing helps businesses accelerate their growth. Conversely, negative information circulating on the internet can harm businesses and ruin personal lives. Firms lose contracts, employees lose jobs, and most importantly – their reputation.A digital presence and online communication strategy are not just part of a company’s reputation, they form a company’s foundation and the most critical component to its survival and growth.
Building, Monitoring & Protecting Your Digital Presence
Today, we interact with friends, family, and colleagues, more so than ever before, through text messages, email, and social media, where perception and reality are often confused. If we don’t like change, we will like irrelevance even less. Our digital presence and online first impression are critical. Businesses must focus on online reputation management to successfully align their strategic communication with client, partner and investor preferences. Moreover, proactive reputation management, affords business owners and executives, insight, into their, strengths, and weaknesses. Every internet search, yields, a search engine results page, known as a SERP. Every second, there are 63,000 Google searches, and every day there are 5.5 billion. People perform these searches for countless reasons. They may be casually googling a company from a sponsored Instagram post or, aggressively searching, for a new attorney, accountant, or financial planner to hire immediately. They might even be googling you. It’s a fair bet that, anyone, we hand, our, business card will search us online for more information. Positive online reviews from real clients, and digital assets, will foster trust. Conversely, negative or defamatory links on the internet will quickly damage our offline reputation.The best reputation offense is a strong defense. A proactive presence builds digital resilience, protects a firm’s reputation, and makes it easier to repair reputational damage. Your reputation is your most valuable asset. Make sure you’re safeguarding it everywhere, especially online.
The Digital & Fintech Revolution
The Digital FinTech Revolution is accelerating our access to knowledge, transforming how we communicate, and creating a wave of digital disruption that will reshape the financial services industry. As regulators and banks refocus on updating their policies and operating models, the next generation of FinTech platforms, including robo advisory, blockchain, digital payment, Bank in a box, security, and P2P lending, are already off to the races.Global investment in financial technology rapidly increased by 3,770% from $930 million in 2008 to $31 billion in 2017. The opportunity to innovate for quantitative finance professionals has never been more compelling than it is today.
An Entrepreneurial Mindset & The Intangibles of Success
An entrepreneurial mindset represents a truly unique opportunity for today’s students and tomorrow’s leaders. Flexibility, creativity, and intellectual freedom often catalyze an entrepreneur’s desire to start a business. Entrepreneurship, a fundamental driver of our global economy, is defined by French Economist, J. B. Say [1767–1832], as a shift of economic resources out of an area of lower productivity into an area of higher productivity and yield. This is also true of intrapreneurs, defined as those who apply an entrepreneurial to their employment culture. Intrapreneurs often become entrepreneurs. An acute understanding of the intangibles or ‘soft skills’ is often required for nurturing new contact and developing a life-long friendship. While these intangible skills are taught and studied, their practice underpins the success of our most revered business, political, and humanitarian leaders in recent history. How does one quantify trust, communication, and emotional intelligence?The interdependence of our global economy places a premium on authenticity and relationships.
The Power of Social Media
Every day people are empowered with unfiltered information and global communication access from a device that fits comfortably in our pocket. It took the Internet 12 years to gather its first billion users, and a third of that time to reach three billion. By 2025, digital computing and communication technology will connect eight billion people to one online community. Never before in history have consumers had so much influence and power at their fingertips; businesses large and small must learn how to adapt and embrace such change. Kodak and Blockbuster exemplify how quickly the average lifespan of a company listed in the S&P 500 significantly decreased from 67 years in the 1920’s to 15 years today. Social media is a transformational platform for cultivating trust, increasing engagement, and expanding reach across both demographic and geographic boundaries. Social media is not about selling, it’s about developing connections and communicating effectively. Great content drives engagement and marketing.
Media
News
Negative Press is Inevitable for Modern CEOs — And That’s Not a Bad Thing
Having a well-defined online reputation is more important than leaders might think. When employees, consumers, and stakeholders find negative articles online and have no character insights to countermand or contextualize the smears they see, the CEO’s character is at risk.
Online Reputation Management Guide
Your online reputation determines how others perceive your business when they search for or stumble upon it online. Consequently, online reputation management (ORM) proactively influences what information people will find.
The New Networking: 8 Strategies For Building Real Relationships
The successful people you seek to network with likely have well-documented achievement in business and life experience. The leaders you meet who can help you most may easily pick up on when someone is enamored by the financial returns of their success. These same people will feel your authenticity when you engage them with genuine passion. Building a precious new relationship with someone that has an abundance mentality is a process. Remember, it will not happen from one meeting alone.
Why Efficient Online Reputation Repair Involves More Than Content Suppression
Blue Ocean Global Technology has successfully completed more than 1,200 ORM and search engine optimization (SEO) projects, building a positive reputation for our clients and mitigating negative ones. One important lesson that we've learned is that clients must be educated about the process of reputation management in the digital sphere, since it's incredibly complex. The used approach of "spray and pray," meaning generating (spraying) new content and hoping (praying) that it will outrank negative links, should never be the go-to solution.
Sameer Somal On The Digital Revolution Of The Internet
Internet defamation expert Sameer Somal is the CFO and co-founder of Blue Ocean Global Technology.
Reviews
Marcelo Suárez Castillo
Managing Director, Institutional Asset Management, Scotiabank & Trust Ltd.Thank you for your engaging and interactive presentation on the topic of digital transformation at our executive strategy retreat in the Cayman Islands.
Christina Carosella
CEO, Beta Gamma SigmaThank you for everything you did for BGS at the Global Leadership Summit! Several of us were talking about your energy and enthusiasm, along with your warm personality. We decided we want to be like you when we grow up!
Robert Martin
Managing Director, Symmetry PartnersI wanted to thank you again for presenting your Digital Revolution education series at your annual Advisor Summit in Puerto Rico this year. Your contribution was truly valuable to our community. I received encouraging positive feedback from the attendees.