Bringing Research to Every Stage
Dr. Ronell Pugh delivers academic talks, guest lectures, conference presentations, and public scholarship grounded in behavioral marketing, consumer psychology, algorithmic trust, culture, and marketing education.
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Keynote Addresses
Conference opening or closing keynotes for academic, professional, and public audiences.
Guest Lectures
University and academic program guest lectures integrating research and applied perspective.
Panels & Roundtables
Participatory academic and professional discussions on behavioral marketing, consumer psychology, technology, culture, and trust.
Workshops & Community Sessions
Applied educational sessions for community organizations, entrepreneurial programs, and public audiences.
Speaking Topics
Behavioral Marketing & Consumer Psychology
Why Consumers Decide the Way They Do
How perception, trust, identity, heuristics, social context, and choice environments shape consumer decisions — and what marketers can learn from those mechanisms.
Behavioral Marketing in Practice
How behavioral science can improve marketing strategy, experimentation, customer experience, and decision architecture without reducing consumers to data points.
Consumer Trust as a Marketing Variable
Why trust is not merely a brand outcome but a psychological input into attention, engagement, avoidance, purchase intention, and loyalty.
Algorithms, Personalization & Culture
When Personalization Feels Like Surveillance
The psychological line between relevance and intrusion — and how transparency, personalization intensity, and cultural experience shape consumer response.
Algorithmic Trust & the DECODE Framework
How historical institutional distrust and cultural mistrust sensitivity can shape trust in algorithmic marketing systems among Black consumers.
Fairness, Psychological Safety & Digital Consumer Experience
How consumers evaluate the legitimacy and safety of automated marketing systems and why those judgments matter for behavior.
Marketing Education & Public Scholarship
Teaching Behavioral Marketing in the Age of AI
Preparing marketing students to integrate consumer psychology, analytics, technology, ethics, and strategic judgment.
Inclusive Consumer Research Beyond WEIRD Samples
Why culture and context matter in behavioral research and what more globally responsive marketing education can look like.
Scholar-Practitioner Identity in Business Education
How rigorous scholarship and applied market experience can strengthen teaching, research questions, and public-facing knowledge translation.
Who Dr. Pugh Speaks To
Academic & University Audiences
MBA and graduate business programs
Marketing and consumer behavior courses
Research conferences and symposia
Faculty development and pedagogy workshops
Community & Professional Audiences
Entrepreneur development organizations
Business incubators and accelerators
Community development organizations
Public education and civic programs
Invite Dr. Pugh to Speak
Dr. Pugh accepts a limited number of speaking engagements each year. Academic talks, conference keynotes, workshops, and community sessions may be arranged through the contact form.
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