Burt has 25 years of marketing and advertising experience that includes senior-level positions with leading advertising agencies. He started his career at Leo Burnett and went on to become vice president, planning director. He later joined BBDO, where he served as senior vice president, account planning. Burt has a broad range of experience in the packaged goods, retail, financial services, technology, and beverage categories, working on consumer and B2B accounts that include Cadbury, Jim Beam Brands, Kellogg, Gillette, Morgan Stanley, Motorola, Microsoft, and Target. In addition to moderating, Burt has conducted shop-along studies and in-home ethnographies, and has led ideation sessions across a variety of clients and topics. Burt received a bachelor's degree from S.U.N.Y. Buffalo and did his doctoral work on the topic of "Empathy and Altruism" at the University of Minnesota.