Speaker kit

Short bio
Colleen McCartney is Founder at Nerdly, the HighLevel platform that more than 100 businesses run on, and the voice behind Automations with a Heartbeat. A former professional mermaid and co-founder of MerMagic Con, Colleen learned that making a splash is the easy part; the magic is getting people to come back.

Medium bio
Colleen McCartney is Founder at Nerdly, the HighLevel platform that more than 100 businesses run on. Colleen calls the approach Automations with a Heartbeat: the welcome, the check-ins and a clear view of who's drifting, so technology makes people feel more looked after, not less. Colleen holds every HighLevel certification available, has earned HighLevel's Gold SaaSpreneur award three years running, and is an official GroupTrack partner. Before Nerdly, Colleen co-founded Metro MerFolk, a DC-area mermaid community of 1,400 members, and MerMagic Con, billed as the world's largest mermaid convention and later featured in Netflix's MerPeople, with features on CNN and in The Washington Post.

Host intro (read aloud)
Our next speaker used to be a professional mermaid. Colleen co-founded MerMagic Con, billed as the world's largest mermaid convention, and learned there that making a splash is the easy part. Today Colleen McCartney is Founder at Nerdly, holds every HighLevel certification available, has won HighLevel's Gold SaaSpreneur award three years running, and helps more than 100 businesses keep the clients they work so hard to win. Please welcome Colleen McCartney!

Press
The Washington Post (2019 and 2025) · CNN (2025) · The Telegraph (2025) · The Seattle Times, Gulf News and Saturday Star (reprints of the Post) · The Marketer's Toolkit podcast (2025)