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Joe Sauer

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Founder & CEO at EmotiSphere Insights
📍 Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

Joe Sauer is the Founder & CEO of EmotiSphere Insights, where he applies his expertise in neuromarketing to help brands use sound and music effectively. An award-winning researcher with an MBA from McGill University, he is a global authority on how emotion influences consumer behavior, particularly in response to audio branding.

Colleagues and clients describe him as a highly competent, caring, and innovative leader. He is also recognized as an effective presenter and a convincing communicator who speaks with confidence-inspiring conviction. People often describe him as caring, innovative, and an expert.

He adapted the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure emotional responses to sonic branding, a significant innovation in marketing research.

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Experience
23 Years
Current Role
Founder & CEO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
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Sonic Branding
He founded EmotiSphere Insights to help brands use sound strategically and has adapted scientific methods like the IAT to measure the impact of audio on consumer behavior.
Neuromarketing Research
With over two decades of experience, he applies neuroscience and psychology to understand the subconscious impact of marketing communications and consumer choice.
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Career

Work history

4-2024
Founder & CEO
EmotiSphere Insights
4-2023 - 3-2024
EVP, Marketing
Songtradr
11-2022 - 4-2023
SVP, Research Services & Solutions
Songtradr
11-2015 - 11-2022
SVP, Research
Sentient Decision Science
7-2014 - 10-2015
VP, Marketing Analytics
Unum
In the press

Media appearances

Joe Sauer – Founder & Global Neuroscience Expert, EmotiSphere Insights – Speaker at Digital Design Days Milano 2026. Featured in Digital Design Days Milano
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Education
Master of Business Administration - MBA
McGill University
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom
University of Ottawa
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