Grant Simmons is an online marketing strategist, motivational leader, entrepreneur, trainer, speaker, and author — and an experienced bridge between marketing and technology. He's been practising SEO since before SEO was a thing, and he's been building tools to make it better ever since.
With over 30 years in marketing and a career spanning some of the world's best-known brands, Grant brings the rare combination of deep strategic insight and roll-up-your-sleeves execution. He's led teams of 15+ search marketers, managed multi-six-figure budgets, recovered sites from algorithmic penalties, and spent more than two decades sharing what he's learned from stages across the globe.
50+
Conference Presentations
7+
Countries Spoken In
15+
Corporate Trainings Given
5,000+
Mentions of the Simpsons in Decks
"Grant's presentation was fantastic. He did a great job balancing the theoretical with the actionable — tons of energy, perfectly engaging. It's not often you attend a talk that's this perfect blend of entertaining and informative."
— Digital Summit Attendee
"The Senior Care Marketing & Sales Summit has had the honour of having Grant Simmons give our opening keynote. He's amazing — not only unbelievably smart and insightful about all things digital, but he also gets to know the audience in advance and delivers the goods with fantastic energy and humour. We can't wait for the next time!"
— Senior Care SMASH Summit Organiser
"Grant is always a fantastic presenter at industry conferences, breaking down technical concepts for the layman, as well as sharing the tools and tricks that work for him. His presentations are gripping visually and conceptually — it's amazing what he can do with a deck. He brings a sense of humour and excitement to topics that might otherwise be dry."
— Industry Conference Organiser
"I asked Grant slightly last minute to do a session and he delivered big time. I know he is someone I can totally rely on to enhance one of our conferences."
— Conference Producer
"If anyone is looking for an excellent, engaging speaker for your event you can't go wrong with hiring Grant. Every possible technical difficulty outside of his control kept happening during his presentation — it never fazed him one bit. He continued on and became even more engaging. His professionalism, humour, and unique slides were very memorable."
"Grant is a real SEO expert and one of only a few I would give that designation. He has strategic experience to plot a company's place in an industry, and the roll-up-the-sleeves experience to actually do everything he describes. To top it all off — a delightful and positive person to be around."
— Former Client
"Grant's extensive background in SEO and his deep understanding of search engines made all the difference in driving success for our initiative. His approach was thorough and well-organised. What impressed me most was his ability to not only meet but exceed expectations — the project is now performing exceptionally well."
— JuryAnalyst / InLinks Project Client
"Grant is an exceptional business all-rounder — highly commercial, exceptionally adept in the field of e-commerce and most importantly, always delivers against a target and a deadline."
— Former Colleague
"We received wonderful feedback from our employees on the content and great excitement and engagement on the opportunity to learn from Grant's expertise. We look forward to a continued partnership on future learning & development initiatives!"
— Corporate Training Client
"Grant is someone that can inject immense humour into boring topics whilst keeping his audience engaged. He has strategic experience so he can plot a company's place in an industry and what it needs to do to move up in the ranks — and he can actually do everything he describes."
— Industry Peer
Speaking Engagements
Grant has spoken at conferences across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia:
Pubcon (Austin 2025 & more)
Brighton SEO
Chiang Mai SEO
Advanced Search Summit
Digital Summit
SMX / SES / SIS
UCLA Anderson School of Business
LRTCon
Social Shakeup
Senior Care SMASH Summit
Published In
Search Engine JournalSearch Engine WatchForbesFox BusinessMedia PostYahooSemrush Blog
The Tools He Built
Grant's App Slicer suite is the direct product of 30 years of seeing what data tools lack in the real world of SEO work:
