Grant ToupsDirector
Grant is a consultant at PulsePoint Group where he is focused on organizational optimization, social media strategy and execution and custom metrics development. Grant has been with PulsePoint since its inception and has counseled a wide range of companies including Amgen, Chevron, Dell, Dow, General Electric, Guardian Life, Kimberly-Clark, Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and Wells Fargo, among others.
Recently, he has focused on developing, executing and measuring social and digital strategies that drive measureable business impacts. He has trained executives at some of the world’s most high-profile companies in the uses of social media and assisted in designing global social media reputation strategies and corporate innovation initiatives.
Before joining PulsePoint Group, Grant worked in communications and marketing roles in Cape Town, South Africa, Boston, New York and in Louisiana local government, where he received certification by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Emergency Management Institute.
Grant holds a Master of Arts degree in Strategic Public Relations from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communications, where he was a Dean’s Scholar, the Outstanding Graduate PR Student and a member of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.
He is also a graduate of the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University holding a Bachelor of Science in Management in Finance and Business Law where he was named a Henry Haller Memorial Scholar and a Tulane Distinguished Scholar.
He is a native of Thibodaux, LA and resides in Los Angeles.