In 2020, John joined the UpWork community. He spends his time copywriting, editing, developing lead gen, and direct response copy. He specializes in writing optimized content for articles, blog posts, landing pages, and web pages. He mostly writes for digital agencies looking for someone who speaks “SEO” and “Tech.” He also writes for architects, travel bloggers, staging companies, HR firms, and SEO companies.
Previously John founded InPlainSite Marketing in 2008, a leader in developing and delivering digital marketing strategies. John consulted and presented to Fortune 100 and 500 companies. He specialized in helping businesses understand and leverage emerging web and social media technologies. He is a bestselling author of 19 books and a regular contributor to leading publications and blogs, including CustomerThink.com, Business2Community.com, MarketingProfs.com, and FamousBloggers.net. John’s musings are regularly picked up by TheStreet.com, Entrepreneur.com, Visa Business, Yahoo! Finance, MSNBC.com, The Globe and Mail, Reuters, and The New York Daily News.
Drawing upon decades of experience developing and delivering digital marketing strategies, Leavy spent years as an active speaker, trainer, and consultant to company leaders, managers, and technologists at local, national, and international conferences. His client list included various Fortune 100 companies, including Chrysler Corporation, Mobil Oil Corporation, Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, Kelloggs Company, PG&E Corporation, and USG Corporation. Also Derek Prince Ministries (UK & USA), SonScape ReCreation Ministries, and Focus on the Family.
Well-versed in technology and software development and application, Leavy has teamed with, taught, created content, and advised countless military and federal government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of the Army, Department of the Air Force, Department of the Navy, Defense Mapping Agency (DMA), United States Air Forces Europe (USAFE), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), United States Air Force Academy (USAFA), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Fort Carson, Colorado, Fort Hood, Texas, and Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas.
On a More Personal Side
John served on the boards of nonprofits for more than a dozen years. He enjoyed leading as either president, chairman of the board, or as a director doing what he can to help an organization succeed. He also valued his time as a volunteer in the trenches. As president and chairman of the board, John helped launch a crisis pregnancy center and thrift shop while living in Illinois. In Colorado, he was asked to be president and chairman of the board for a startup Christian school in Woodland Park. John also served as a director and vice president on the board of an entrepreneurial organization, Middle Market Entrepreneurs, in Colorado Springs. John served multiple times as a Bible study or Sunday school teacher. He served on a leadership council, as a creative director, and as a church volunteer in many other capacities. John believes his most rewarding times as a volunteer are when he gets to work alongside Kay or one of their children or grandchildren. Today, John’s life centers on God, family, church, and community.
John loves spending time with Kay, his bride of 51 beautiful years of marriage. John and Kay have three of the most incredible kids, okay grownups. They have been blessed with eight grandchildren. John enjoys playing horseshoes with his grown sons and their boys, listening to almost any kind of music, helping out at church and in his community, traveling across God’s country, walking the streets of downtown Chicago, having lunch at The Berghoff, watching the Cubs win in the Friendly Confines, writing poetry, reading a good book that challenges his thinking, the “hunt” of collecting almost anything, working with his hands or mind, spending time with friends and too much more to name.
Professional Affiliations (past and present)
LinkedIn.com Top Voice
Medium.com Consulting Editor Illumination Integrated Publications
Upwork.com Top Rated Plus Freelancer
National Speakers Association
International Institute of Business Analysis
Project Management Institute
Tri-County Crisis Pregnancy Ctr. – president, board chairman
Tri-County Thrift Shop – president
The Christian Academy – president, board chairman
Lake Cook Countryside Chapel – leadership council
Middle Market Entrepreneurs – director
Various speaker bureaus
Middle Market Entrepreneurs
Colorado Springs Regional Business Alliance Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft Certified Trainer
Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert
