Co-Founder and General Manager of StudioHawk US, based in Atlanta. Award-winning SEO strategist and international conference speaker, helping brands navigate AI search, build organic visibility and turn SEO into measurable revenue.
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If I was organising an event Sophie is always on the short list of invited speakers.
Gerry White Head of SEO and Growth, Mirador Media. Search Awards judge and BrightonSEO speaker.
"Sophie is an incredibly commercially savvy SEO who can present on many diverse topics within SEO, from technical, content and offpage. If I was organising an event Sophie is always on the short list of invited speakers."
Keynotes and panels tailored to your audience, from technical SEO deep dives to business growth strategy for marketing leaders.
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AI Overviews, ChatGPT search and LLM-powered discovery are already reshaping how customers find businesses. Sophie shares the practical tactics StudioHawk uses across 100+ client campaigns to get brands cited in AI answers, optimise for generative search results and turn AI visibility into real revenue.
Building SEO strategies that tie to business outcomes, not vanity metrics. From where to start to how to scale.
Scaling an agency across three continents: building teams, repeatable processes, and navigating market differences between the UK, US and Australia.
Tailored SEO strategies for e-commerce, finance, health, fashion and other verticals: what works in each industry and how to avoid common pitfalls.
Past talks cover AI leadership, content performance, product detail pages, stakeholder buy-in and technical SEO. In 2026 Sophie is expanding into broader business growth and marketing topics.
Cutting through AI noise to show how search professionals can position themselves as strategic leaders, not just practitioners, in the age of AI.
Challenging the "more content is better" mindset and showing when content quantity actively hurts organic performance.
An international panel on the future of search, for a primarily French audience, at one of Europe's premier SEO events.
A deep dive into product detail page optimisation for e-commerce brands looking to increase organic revenue and conversion rates.
How to break down barriers, get stakeholder buy-in and position SEO as a strategic channel, not just a technical function.
Practical, technical approaches to diagnosing and resolving content duplication at scale, one of the most common and costly SEO issues.
About
Sophie Brannon is Co-Founder and General Manager of StudioHawk US, based in Atlanta, Georgia. StudioHawk is one of the largest dedicated SEO and AI Search agencies globally, with over 100 staff across offices in Melbourne, London and the US.
Her background spans journalism, copywriting and agency leadership. She has led campaigns for startups through to multinationals across finance, health, fashion and e-commerce.
She is lead author of the SEO chapter of the Web Almanac, and a regular judge for the Global and European Search Awards.
Sophie is an experienced SEO team and agency leader
Aleyda Solís International SEO Consultant and Founder, Orainti. Creator of Crawling Mondays and author of SEO, las claves esenciales.
"Sophie is an experienced SEO team and agency leader, highly knowledgeable not only of the ins and outs of every aspect of an SEO process but also of what it takes to make it successful from a management, coordination and prioritization standpoint. She's also a wonderful, empathic and caring human."
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Available for keynotes, panels, fireside chats and workshops. From a 500-person conference to an intimate executive roundtable, every talk is tailored to your audience.
