Human Business Works is an education and community company founded by Chris Brogan, and run with Rob Hatch. Our goal is to provide solo-to-smaller businesses with education and community resources to help build sustainable, relationship-minded businesses. We provide educational offerings including ebooks, webinars, teleseminars, online community peer learning environments, and more, for specific niches.
At launch, our communities are:
- Nonprofit
- Small Business & Entrepreneurial Studies
- Blog Improvement
Our Team
Chris Brogan consults and speaks professionally with Fortune 100 and 500 companies like PepsiCo, General Motors, Microsoft, and more, on the future of business communications, and social software technologies. He is a New York Times bestselling co-author of Trust Agents, and a featured monthly columnist at Entrepreneur Magazine. Chris’s blog, [chrisbrogan.com], is in the Top 5 of the Advertising Age Power150. He has over 11 years experience in online community, social media, and related technologies. He is president of Human Business Works, and also president of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency. Chris lives in Northern Massachusetts.
Rob Hatch has been working with humans for 20 years. He has led businesses and organizations large and small, serving children and families throughout New England. Most recently, Rob was at the helm of the Child Health Center, a non-profit organization in Western Maine. His entreprenurial spirit helped create new programs and a new facility, leading the organization through the largest growth in its thirty year history.
Rob’s experience extends to positions of leadership throughout the State of Maine. He has earned appointments by the Education Commissioner and Speaker of the House to co-chair a legislative committee and served as a member of Maine’s Task Force on Early Childhood. Since 2006, Rob has trained professionals throughout Maine in Touchpoints, Dr. T. Berry Brazelton’s approach to working with children and families. Rob recently joined the national training team at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center and has served as chair of the National Touchpoints Conference.
Rob’s earliest Brogan memory is drawing Van Halen logos on Chris’ 128k Mac in the 8th grade. Where have all the good times gone?
Liz Stewart is a former UNIX Systems Administrator who worked with Chris Brogan during his time in the telecommunications industry. Serendipity joined them together at the right moment, and now Liz works as a project manager for Human Business Works. Liz is the owner of Lush Beads, and is an active member of the community at Western Avenue Studios in Lowell, MA. She is also an active member of Boston Handmade. She resides in Northern Massachusetts.
Josh Fisher is our Creative Director. He has a role in helping us with the look and feel of HBW, but he also does a lot of other creative design and development-related stuff. Josh has a strong background in advertising, experiential marketing, and illustration. No matter what anyone says, he is not a pirate and most certainly did not bury a fortune in doubloons on a desert island by the light of the moon.
Anne has been managing small offices and planning schedules for 10 years, doing incredible things for incredible humans. Name the field, she’s probably had her hand in it. Her resume tells sea tales of adventuring through the record industry, airlines, environmental science, marketing, specialty food imports, and newspapers. If her set of skills materialized into an object, it would look something like a swiss army knife on speed. She loves living in Portland, Maine and will bike anywhere on a dare.
Our Facilitators
Joe is an entrepreneur and a small business owner. He was born into a “small business” family in upstate New York and shortly realized that it was in his blood. Joe owns and operates a restaurant group in Milwaukee, WI with his partner and wife Angie. He has also authored two books on Social Media for small business: #TwitterWorks and #FoursquareWorks. Recently, Joe’s innovation with various social media tools like Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook, and YouTube has earned him national recognition by CNN, The Wall Street Journal, The NY Times, Nations Restaurant News, The Travel Channel, Entrepreneur Magazine, Success Magazine, Hospitality 101, Hubspot, TechCrunch, Mashable, Forrester Research, and The Business Journal. He is regularly interviewed for social media projects in blogs, case studies and websites around the world.
Our Business Partners
9seeds – our developer team.