Marketing Consultant | Speaker | Professor

Why Engage Zontee?

Zontee brings a unique blend of strategic, academic, and practical thinking to her keynotes, speeches, and workshops. She presents both at conferences, summits, and retreats, as well as with smaller teams and executives.

Not only does she empower her audiences with actionable advice, but she also inspires them through clever case studies and stories.

In feedback from her audiences, Zontee Hou is consistently and highly rated across industries as an engaging speaker who presents actionable and useful content.

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About Zontee

Zontee Hou is a passionate advisor and teacher of communications. She’s the founder of Brooklyn-based consultancy Media Volery and co-lead of strategy for the respected consultancy, Convince & Convert, led by Jay Baer.

Her 15 years of marketing industry experience includes work for the IMF, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, Allstate Insurance, and Indiana University. She is one of TopRank’s top 50 most influential content marketers, and her work has garnered multiple awards including several PR News Platinum Awards and a Forrester Groundswell Award.

In addition, Zontee’s years of experience as a faculty lecturer and adjunct lecturer at Columbia University and the City College of New York, inform her unique ability to draw connections between marketing methodology and business goals.

Experienced Speaker

“With Zontee’s great breadth of knowledge and easy to utilize practices,
I can’t recommend her enough. Her professionalism and kind personality
make it exceptionally easy to work with her as well.”

– Nathaniel Navratil

AAF North Dakota, Secretary & Programming Chair


Zontee has spoken at conferences and for organizations including: Content Marketing World, Innovation Congress, Insurance Thought Leadership, MarketingProfs B2B Forum, Platinum Guild International, PCMA, Senior Care Marketing Summit, Social Frseh, Social Media Marketing World, SMAD-Con, Teachers Pay Teachers and many more.

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Popular Programs

Zontee crafts each talk to fit the specific audience; some of her most popular talks include:

The Bionic Consumer: How to Build Customer Loyalty Through Behavioral Economics, Data, and Content

Ever look up a restaurant’s menu online before going out to dinner? It’s not just you. Your consumers are using digital resources more than ever, and they’re savvier than ever about leveraging social media to make daily decisions. In this session, we explore the pillars of how consumers take in information in the digital age, how they make decisions, and what your brand can do to win them over and keep them loyal.

ATLAS: Mapping the 5 Steps Building a Winning Content Strategy

Creating content is easy. Creating content that moves people is harder. Creating content that moves your audience, your buyer? That’s incredibly difficult. To get it right you need to reach them with the right message and in a context, a format, and at a time they welcome. In this program, learn how your brand defines that journey. Explore examples of companies you admire who are getting the story right.

The 4 Es of Engagement: How to Create Content that Moves Your Audience to Action

Business owners and marketers know that their content needs to drive conversions, but often, they’re publishing content that doesn’t truly serve their audience or drive them to action. What’s the solution? Create content according to the 4Es of Engagement.

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