Speaker announcement: Kevin D Turner

Time for another speaker, and it's the awesome Kevin D Turner. He's coming from Texas to speak onstage in Birmingham at UpLift Live about advanced LinkedIn strategies.

TRANSCRIPT

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Welcome back to the UpLift Live podcast. This is John Espirian from the Mission Control team for UpLift Live, which is the UK's first LinkedIn-focused conference for LinkedIn specialists, power users and enthusiasts.

OK, time for another speaker, and this time we're heading to Texas to talk with one of the absolute top names of LinkedIn: Kevin D Turner. He has phenomenal knowledge of so many aspects of LinkedIn, and he is a number one person for staying on top of new features and changes.

Let's hop aboard and get to the interview with Kevin!

Kevin D Turner, welcome to the UpLift Live conference podcast.

Thank you so much for being here.

Tell everyone a little bit about who Kevin D Turner is.

How did you get involved in LinkedIn? And what do you know about LinkedIn anyway? I first want to say thank you for having me here.

It's an honour.

I love what you're doing with UpLift Live.

I think it's going to be incredible.

And I'm excited to be there, not just to present but to learn and listen and connect with everybody else who is presenting there, because they're all incredible.

And they see things in different ways.

And that, to me, is really exciting.

You know, so for me, it's a learning experience as well, as well as a sharing experience.

Personally, I've been involved with LinkedIn since 2005.

Actually, it may have been earlier, but I think I set up an account and then forgot how to log in.

I was in that first 2 million, right, got the little letter from LinkedIn that said thank you for being in the first group.

Been very active ever since.

And it has actually helped me in my, I guess, career, in the sense, I've had 6 pivots in my career, each one I made choices.

And about halfway through that career, LinkedIn came into effect, right.

And I started to rebrand myself on LinkedIn when I was ready for these pivots.

And it allowed me to do that.

And that to me was fascinating.

The other component of that, I had done a lot of international business.

I've actually lived in several countries, I've done business in 140 countries, and I had these connections.

And before LinkedIn, it was very difficult to stay connected, right, emails, you know, this was, you know, prior to all this advanced conferencing that you could do, LinkedIn became that connection.

It allowed me to keep contact with all those people.

So, I became very active.

And that, to me, was a connectivity, and I truly believe that this is the platform for networking.

And networking always beats not working, right, whether you're looking for a job or it's just that next opportunity, if you're not talking to people, if you're not out there finding out what they need, what you can help them with what you need, what they can help you with, if you're not doing that, then you're really kind of behind the 8 ball, right? You're always then trying to find something, whereas those things will find you if you network.

And that's one of the most incredible, I think, features of LinkedIn, right, that nobody talks about as a feature.

But it's that ability to network on a global scale, on a mass scale, and on a personal scale.

And you and I have met through LinkedIn.

So, this event will be our time to actually like real life meet, right? I don't even know how tall you are.

And all these things, you know.

So, that, to me, is incredible.

And it's even more exciting.

And we build everything here on LinkedIn together, you know, in that sense of that relationship.

And I think, to me, that's the best part about being here.

Yeah, fantastic.

And I am so grateful for having the LinkedIn platform for meeting people around the world.

And I certainly wouldn't have met the likes of you without this kind of connection platform, it is fantastic for that.

What we haven't said anything about is the fact that you're now probably the most known person on LinkedIn with regards to sharing new features about the platform.

So, you're a personal brand strategist.

But you always come to mind whenever something changes, or something is new on LinkedIn.

And I do wonder whether you sleep at times, because you're sharing so much good value stuff.

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