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Michael Heller is the Founder and CEO of Talent Resources, a marketing and communications agency he founded in 2007. Talent Resources Collective is comprised of Talent Resources, Talent Resources Sports, and Talent Resources Ventures, with practices spanning influencer marketing, celebrity procurement, brand strategy, and social media management.
Over nearly two decades in the business, Heller has executed celebrity and influencer campaigns for brands including InMode, Dunkin', The Athlete's Foot, Skinny Mixes, A-Sha Foods, PetSafe, Got Milk, The Children's Place, and Real Essentials. His work spans Super Bowl talent placements, global brand ambassadorships, and integrated celebrity-driven campaigns that have generated billions of media impressions for client brands.
A former entertainment attorney, Heller founded Talent Resources after recognizing an unfilled gap between brands and the talent they wanted to reach. His celebrity placements over eighteen years include the Kardashian family, Mariah Carey, Lindsay Lohan, Pitbull, Avril Lavigne, Kris Jenner, and Eva Longoria. Heller is also a film producer and an active investor through Talent Resources Ventures.
Heller has been profiled or quoted across major media including CNN, the New York Post, Bloomberg, PRNewswire, PR Daily, and Billion Success, and was recognized by Ragan Communications and PR Daily in their Class of 2026. He maintains a Wikipedia entry and is profiled on Crunchbase.
Heller is a co-author of In Tune With AI, the joint Talent Resources × 5W research ranking the fifty celebrities, athletes, founders, and creators that the world's leading AI engines recognize as most fluent in the AI era. As a contributor to Everything-PR, Heller writes on celebrity and influencer brand partnerships, the AI-era talent economy, and the structural changes reshaping the agency business.
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