Katie Felten, President and majority partner of MKELive, is recognized as a leading trainer, consultant and speaker on LinkedIn.

A natural networker, Katie signed up as a LinkedIn user in 2006 and immediately recognized it as a tool that could exponentially expand peoples’ opportunities in their careers or sales efforts. Her skill in teaching and communicating the useful tools of networking through LinkedIn, Twitter and simple face-to-face communications led to the creation of MKELive (www.mkelive.com ), an event and consulting firm that provides training, networking and event services to organizations throughout Wisconsin and the Midwest.

Today, Katie is frequently asked to speak to professional organizations about LinkedIn and social networking media, and has been quoted in articles from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, New North B2B, featured on multiple blogs on LinkedIn and has authored a chapter in the new Linked Working book. More than 2,000 people have heard Katie speak on LinkedIn Training and networking since April 2009.

Katie is also an associate director for Asset Builders of America, a non-profit that teaches financial literacy skills and investment education to inner city youth and adults. Katie specifically works with CLIMB, a program  that addresses the wealth gap issue head-on by fostering the formation of investment clubs and training club members how to invest in the stock market.

When she’s not training, speaking or developing MKELive, Katie is an account manager for the nation’s leading healthcare advocacy firm, Patient Care.