We are pleased that you have visited our site and we are excited to help you develop meaningful and profitable connections!
Our History
City of Experts was founded by St. Louis businesswoman Karen Hoffman after she considered the frustration and time she spent on finding experts and consultants for keynote speakers, business advisers, and panel discussions. As a busy executive, she spent countless hours directly and indirectly networking to find a specific speaker or business consultant locally and nationally. She thought, “wouldn’t it be great if a resource was developed to showcase experts by region and expertise?”
“If other executives, event planners, and small businesses considered the time they spend finding the right consultant or expert, they would certainly see the value of having access to a pool of local experts,” said Hoffman. The idea has been validated and supported by program chairs, meeting planners, expert speakers and consultants.
Our Mission
City of Experts helps make strategic business connections.
City of Experts is THE marketing arm for local expert speakers, consultants, authors and coaches. The City of Experts Team is dedicated to promoting our Experts through our co-op marketing, tthrough our website, word of mouth marketing, business articles, direct mail programs, e-mail marketing, networking events, workshops, media publications, advertising, expos, and more.
For less than 60 cents a day, our experts are being promoted in ways that would normally cost them hundreds of dollars a month because we can leverage our resources.
City of Experts also provides a critical resource to FIND those LOCAL Experts. Our Searchers save countless hours, resources and money and searching is always FREE.
Our Management Team
![]() Karen Hoffman Karen Hoffman – THE CONNECTOR and CATALYST FOR CREATING COMMUNITIES OF COLLABORATION |
![]() Lethia Owens Lethia Owens – The Chief Branding Officer |
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Our Co-Founders Angela A. Lieb and Ken Schriever
Just as Rome wasn’t built in a day, neither was the COE community. Angela A. Lieb and Ken Schriever are co-founders who have contributed their time, treasure and talent to help build St. Louis’ premier expert search directory. [Read More about our Co-Founders]