Charli K. Matthews is a thought leader for social media and marketing in the pump industry with more than a 17 years experience connecting pump professionals around the world. Charli is the Founder and CEO of Empowering Brands that help customers and users to make valuable connections.

Charli is heavily involved with the Fluid Sealing Association; she formerly served as vice chair of membership and marketing chair for the organization.

Drawing on her experience with leading organizations and top trade shows, Charli empowers engineers and operators to network with professionals to grow their knowledge, brand and business through digital media. She helps companies transition from traditional media to the ever-changing contemporary digital space.

Charli holds a bachelor’s degree from the Culverhouse College of Business at the University of Alabama.

Posts By: Charli K. Matthews

1. EPIC 2025: Collaboration, Hands-On Learning, and the Power of Showing Up
2. Industry Access: Opening the Doors to Innovation, Collaboration, and the Future of Work
3. Back in the Field: Reflections from #EASA25 in Nashville
4. Motivate: to provide with a motive
5. Envision: imagine as a future possibility; visualize
6. Reclamation: the process of claiming something back or of reasserting a right.
7. Envision: to imagine or expect something to happen, appear, etc.
8. COMMUNITY: a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals
9. COURAGE: Mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty.
10. Systematic labor especially for some useful purpose or the creation of something of value
11. Serving Leadership
12. Empowering Pumps & Industry Conference – It’s EPIC!
13. Community: a Unified Body of Individuals
14. Why Personal Branding is Important to Leadership
15. User-Generated Content: What is it and where does it come from?
16. Lessons Learned in Ten Years of Business
17. Taking the Responsibility of Leadership
18. Buy Pumps, Save Lives
19. Using Your Voice – Part 2
20. Use Your Voice, Build Your Brand
21. Leadership in Safety
22. What is it like to Partner with Empowering Pumps & Equipment?
23. 6 Takeaways From #WEFTEC Connect
24. Industry Person of the Week – Jamie Elrod
25. The Voice Of Industry – the Empowering Industry Podcast
26. Connecting Business and Life via Podcast
27. Industry Trailblazer – Eileen O’Neill
28. Remembering Jack Creamer…”It’s All About the Pump Baby!”
29. Making an Impact during Engineers Week!
30. Brave Blue World