Biography

Florie Brizel has a diversified background in visual and verbal communications. Experienced as a commercial and television producer, published author, ghostwriter, photo editor, and web designer, this American creative has earned a reputation as an original and bold thinker who glides easily between cultures and generations. Last year, she spent seven weeks in Berlin mentoring 28 exceptional thinkers under age 30 from around the world in a residency-based technology innovation incubator charged with conceiving and prototyping working/living environments of the future.

Since 2004, Ms. Brizel has immersed herself in Mobilology, which examines the effects of mobile phone use on behavior, community, culture, entertainment, and economics. She views mobile phones and wireless communication not as mere technology, but as drivers of profound innovation and social and economic change. She believes the rapid adoption of mobile use internationally is no less significant a developmental milestone than the Industrial Revolution was at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and we need to critically consider the course of our actions before we are left to deal with their consequences.

Ms. Brizel seeks to establish Mobilology as the first new bona fide social science of the 21st century and situate it firmly within the global academic curriculum. She has begun to lecture around the world - whether giving keynote addresses (TheNextWeb Conference 2010) or speaking informally to her peers (Deutsche Telekom 2009 Innovation Day Conference break-out session) - and finds her message is one that is now heartily embraced.

To this end, she has begun work with the GSM Association to design a platform connecting GSMA members around the globe to the world of international academia. Several prestigious American universities have expressed interest in becoming the flagship university to endorse Mobilology and include it in their curricula across all applicable schools. Greater connectivity and increased dialogue between business and higher education will increase collaboration, enhance innovation, and help two gigantic existing communities find each other for tangible mutual benefit.

Florie Brizel began her career in New York at the award-winning Lord, Geller, Federico, Einstein Advertising (IBM, Tiffany & Co., The New Yorker), ultimately leaving as a producer. Next, she produced and refereed live, on-air games for Nickelodeon's "Total Panic" show. When Nick Studios moved to Orlando, FL, she tried her hand and eye as a freelance photo editor at The National Sports Daily newspaper, working for legendary photographer Neil Leifer.

She moved to Los Angeles in 1990, stayed in production for a few more years, and then joined Baker, Winokur, Ryder Public Relations (LA & NY) in 1996 as a staff writer. There, she created highly targeted promotional literature for corporations, high-profile individuals, health care entities, celebrities, events and products.

Ms. Brizel left to pursue her own clients in 1997, and within two years was hired as a senior writer by Homestore.com, a publicly held company of 2000 employees.

In 2002, she co-authored her first book, Words That Shook the World: 100 Years of Unforgettable Speeches and Events (Prentice Hall Press), which has sold nearly 75,000 copies. Her second book, Sinai Temple: A Centennial History, is a 200-page narrative about the oldest Conservative synagogue west of the Mississippi.

Ms. Brizel has been highly sought after by clients in the public and private sectors for her ability to create dynamic, persuasive written content that reflects their objectives. She still consults in various capacities on other authors' books and articles (both fiction and non-fiction), and has been hired to conceptualize and write content for a variety of websites.

Her ghostwriting has run in such publications as the Los Angeles Business Journal, Billboard magazine, and Newsmax magazine, to name but a few. She also provides occasional commentary for the LBN E-lert, a daily online and mobile newsletter featuring breaking political, media and entertainment news that currently reaches 320,000 influencers in all 50 of the United States and 24 foreign countries.

Ms. Brizel is a member of the Dutch think tank FreedomLab Future Studies, her work has been written about in The Huffington Post and she is a member of the Los Angeles Press Club. She happily continues to mentor many of the young people she met in Berlin.