Leslie Carothers (known on Twitter as @tkpleslie) is the founder and CEO of The Kaleidoscope Partnership , an 11 year old international social media agency for furniture and interior design brands. Leslie has over 31 years of experience in the furniture and design industry and spent the first 20 years of her career as an interior designer. Some of her past social media clients have included Cargill Corporation’s BioH Polyols division, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, World Market Center Las Vegas, The New Traditionalists, Better Homes and Gardens magazine and current clients include the corporate headquarters of The Curtain Exchange – a national luxury window treatment franchise and Olioboard –a fast growing global social commerce site with 2D and 3D visualization tools. She micro-blogs as @tkpleslie and founded the Twitter chat, #GetPublished which brings together design editors, authors and the design community to create dialogue and opportunities. For the past 11 years , she has been a frequent national and international speaker at major furniture and design industry trade shows and events and keynoted the first Social Media Symposium held at High Point University.
She’s been widely interviewed and is also a guest author for many industry publications including Furniture Today magazine, Retailer NOW magazine and for the past 9 years has been the writer of the *Retail Ideas* blog for Furniture Today.com –publishers of the leading international furniture industry trade news magazine.
Leslie served a 3 year term as a volunteer on the board of Women In The Home Industries –WITHIT - where she twice chaired the major yearly fundraiser –WITHIT’s Leadership Development Conference - and served as VP of National Membership.
In 2009, Leslie was awarded WITHIT’s President’s Award for her service to the organization and to the furniture and interior design industry.
Thank you for featuring me on your blog today - I appreciate it and I’m very much looking forward to speaking about how your attendees: design bloggers and/or designers, can use their 2D and 3D social commerce and online virtual portfolio site in their businesses.
Having participated at the last two conferences as an attendee, I can honestly endorse this conference as the one conference I would not miss due to the quality of the content, the level of networking and the professionalism with which it is executed.
Being invited as a speaker this year is an honor that I appreciate.
I’m also happy that one of your major sponsors, Lamps Plus, an e-commerce site partner to Olioboard and a corporate blog participant in a former #OlioHop blog hop in 2012, is sponsoring 5 scholarships to deserving attendees for this upcoming conference.
For those of your attendees that might like to become more familiar with Olioboard before I speak about them on Tuesday, March 5th, here is their media link with links to the Today Show, Mashable, The Nate Berkus Show, City Line Canada ++: http://olioboard.com/pages/media and here is their Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/olioboard.
My company’s Facebook Page is http://facebook.com/TheKaleidoscopePartnership and I welcome your attendees to LIKE it to keep up to date with international social media news and news related to my clients and my business.
Thank you again for the invitation and I look forward to seeing and meeting everyone in March and wish everyone a very happy and successful New Year!
Leslie (@tkpleslie)
Leslie, you’re an amazing woman and a inspiration to so many in your field of design and social media. I’m thankful to have met you on twitter and feel a genuine friendship. Thank you for including me in your conversations. I look forward to following all that you do…
Leslie, thank you for this excellent blog post! You are the best!