If you’re coming to WordCamp Seattle ready to work and make some real shifts in with your WordPress website and your business, we’ve got some really special sessions lined up for you.
I’m thrilled to announce the speakers who are bringing you workshops, hands-on, interactive sessions, and an all-around focus on gettin’ it done.
(Don’t show up to these folks’ sessions empty-handed. Bring a laptop or at least something to take some serious notes on.)
Erin Ewart
Erin Ewart is a career coach who specializes in working with social sector job seekers. Prior to starting her business, Erin spent over 15 years as a recruiter, and she uses this experience to help her clients successfully navigate the job search. She has worked for a diverse set of organizations across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors, including Google and the U.S State Department, and received her MBA from Columbia Business School and her BA from the College of William and Mary. She relocated to Seattle in 2014 from New York City, and is enjoying the different pace of life in the Pacific Northwest, along with the adventures of raising an almost two-year old.
Jennifer Bourn
Jennifer Bourn is an award-winning designer and founder/partner at Bourn Creative, a full service design agency, specializing in premium web design, brand design, messaging, and content strategy services, with WordPress as her platform of choice.
Deep in the design and branding trenches since 1998, Jennifer leads workshops and speaks regularly at both virtual and live events across the country, co-organizes the Sacramento WordPress Meetup, headed up WordCamp Sacramento 2016, and is lead organizer for WordCamp Sacramento 2017.
When not working with clients, Jennifer manages the Bourn Creative brand, writes for several marketing blogs, and has her own personal blog Inspired Imperfection where she shares recipes, family-friendly adventures, and candid commentary on work/life balance.
Kailey Lampert
Kailey has been playing with WordPress since 2008. She loves tiny plugins and WP-CLI. She’s also a dabbler in devops, and thinks everyone should know a little command line.
Kelli Wise
Kelli has been creating websites since the stone ages, or at least in the days before CSS. She creates websites for small businesses and nonprofits and believes in empowering her clients to make changes themselves. Once she discovered WordPress, she knew it was the right platform for her clients. She has extensive training and experience in public speaking and teaching and has spoken at many previous WordCamps. She organizes the WordPress meetup in Olympia WA and helps facilitate the Women’s WordPress study group in Seattle.
Sharon Ernst
Sharon Ernst, MA * Content Copywriter, Consultant and Coach
Sharon Ernst has worked as a freelance copywriter for almost 20 years, writing her first website in 1997 and founding her own copywriting firm three years after that. During that time, she has written everything from a charming drink coaster to highly technical case studies to complex websites. For the past 10 years, she has been blogging for businesses ranging from kitchen cabinet manufacturers to security companies to technical firms. She has also coached small business owners on blogging and conducted clinics to help them get started. Her most recent venture is a switch to teaching, helping people to write better, faster.
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, currently working on the JavaScript for WordPress Master Course. Previously, Zac taught WordPress for Treehouse. He has years of experience teaching WordPress and JavaScript at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers.
Tickets are on sale now.
Note: All of the workshops and working sessions take place during regular WordCamp hours, but for some of them, if plan to attend, we request that you indicate that when you purchase your ticket so we can get a ballpark headcount to make sure we’ve got enough space and resources available.