About Us

Meet Nicole Bradham, MBA — Professor of Marketing at Southeastern University, founder of HotMod Influencer Marketing Agency, co-founder of The Influencer Academy, and one of the most recognized voices in influencer marketing today.

Nicole is an influencer marketing educator and speaker like her most recent partnership hosting with the American Marketing Association in Tampa and hosting live webinars with SCORE Mentors about partnering with hyper-local influencers to grow your business. 

As a Professor of Marketing at Southeastern University, she launched the first-ever Influencer Marketing Minor in the country, bringing academic credibility to an industry that has largely been figure-it-out-yourself. She’s not just teaching the future of marketing; she helped build it.

She has led national campaigns for brands like NASCAR, Camping World, and Sun Outdoors, and collaborated with top tourism boards including Visit Central Florida, the Dept. of Tourism for Pigeon Forge, and Visit Lake Havasu. Along the way, she has built out influencer programs, trained internal teams, and coached hundreds of content creators on how to pitch, price, and turn their platforms into real businesses.

Armed with an MBA in Executive Leadership and a background in tech, Nicole blends business acumen with creative strategy to educate the industry and elevate the standard for what influencer marketing can be. 

Let’s collaborate, innovate, and make content that actually moves the needle.