Entrepreneur | Author | Business Strategist | AI Brand Architect | Speaker | 

Award-winning entrepreneur, CEO, author, and business strategist Theo Prodromitis is known for helping entrepreneurs and brands recognize opportunities, refine their message, and build businesses with purpose, resilience, and growth. As Co-Founder of Out Front Brands, she advises brands on positioning, communications, e-commerce, business development, and market differentiation, helping transform vision into scalable execution.

Theo's lifelong passion for business is born of philotimo, a distinctly Greek personal and cultural imperative holding that life carries deeper meaning through larger contributions, to honor one's God-given gifts by improving the lives of others. Raised in a vibrant entrepreneurial Greek family, she developed an early appreciation for business ethics, resilience, communication, and tenacity. She launched her first retail venture at the age of eight and naturally thrived within the science and craft of entrepreneurship.

Through decades of visionary executive leadership as a CEO, successful Amazon entrepreneur, and expert marketing strategist, Theo creates exponential growth and profits for her own companies and for hundreds of others. Her expertise spans business development and intellectual property, manufacturing and logistics, and marketing and strategic communications. She is a sought-after spokesperson and a fierce advocate for the interests of women in business and small businesses nationwide.

As Co-founder and CEO of Spa Destinations, Theo helped position the company as an early adopter of the emerging Amazon Marketplace platform, accelerating its post-recession growth trajectory through innovative e-commerce strategy and brand positioning. She was selected for the Amazon Women's Entrepreneur Conference and later became a speaker at Amazon BOOST.

Theo was selected as an Amazon Policy Advocate, serving in a leadership and advocacy role supporting favorable national policies for small businesses and independent retailers. In that capacity, she worked alongside Congressional leaders on policy and legislation impacting small businesses and the evolving e-commerce economy, later serving as a Congressional Hearing Witness before the U.S. House of Representatives Small Business Committee. Theo was nominated by Amazon and received a National Retail Federation “America's Retail Champion” Award, advocating on behalf of America's retail sector and millions of small businesses nationwide. She continues to serve on the NRF Small Business Retail Advisory Council.

Theo is an award-winning trainer, moderator, and national speaker who has presented at conferences and leadership events across the country and internationally. She has been a guest speaker at Amazon Headquarters in Seattle, Washington, Voice America, Working Women of Tampa Bay, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg Entrepreneurship Program, and the National Retail Federation podcast, and has served as a productivity trainer for Fortune 500 companies and a presenter at The Home Depot Innovation Center. She moderated a fireside chat with Randi Zuckerberg at the WIN Negotiation Summit in New York, served as a guest lecturer on negotiation at The American College of Greece, and spoke at the Entrepreneurship Conference at United Nations Headquarters in New York. Theo also served as a Cultural Sensitivity Training Specialist for the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) Awards, and led Guest Experience Training for Visit Tampa Bay and the Downtown Tampa Partnership. She is also an Executive Producer of the Emmy and Telly Award-winning documentary Dreamer.

Theo's insights and entrepreneurial journey have been featured across national media outlets, television, radio, podcasts, and business publications, including USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo Finance, Bay News 9, ABC Action News, FOX 13, and NBC. She has also been featured in National Retail Federation Retail Gets Real, Small Business Journal on International Women's Day, Business News Daily, Tampa Bay Times, and Small Biz Daily, as well as the Amazon Blog, including its Day One and Stories of Entrepreneurship features, and was selected for Amazon's Storefront Women-Owned Business feature and Storefront of the Week.

Theo continues to lead at the intersection of entrepreneurship, human-centered leadership, wellness, and emerging technology. She recently earned a certificate in AI Strategy for Business from Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering, expanding her work in AI-driven business strategy, brand positioning, and organizational growth.

She received an Enterprising Women of the Year Award and remains deeply committed to philanthropy and community leadership. Theo served on the Board of the Working Women Foundation, supporting women entrepreneurs through seed funding and mentorship, and champions organizations including the Joyful Heart Foundation and Operation Underground Railroad.

Theo is the co-author of The Success Formula alongside Jack Canfield, as well as Big Questions During Tough Times, The Balance Between Hustle & Flow, Hustle & Flow: The AI Shift, and The Wellness Journey series. She holds a degree in Political Science from the University of South Florida.

Community Leadership and Philanthropy

• Working Women Foundation, Board of Directors

• National Retail Federation Small Business Advisory Council

• Joyful Heart Foundation, creating a world free of sexual assault, domestic violence, and child abuse

• Operation Underground Railroad

Theo combines entrepreneurial vision, strategic insight, and authentic leadership in a way that creates lasting impact. Her expertise in branding, communications, and business growth makes her an invaluable asset to organizations seeking meaningful transformation.

— V. Krishna Lakkineni, Founder, ROI Media Works