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These creativity speakers can cover such topics and trends as innovation, disruption, critical thinking, strategy, business growth, problem solving, lateral-thinking, divergent-thinking, change management, entrepreneurship, leadership, and more.
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Charles Day
Charles advises some of the world’s most recognized creative leaders and works with many of the world’s most disruptive firms, from multinational brands to founder-led startups. Charles helps leaders and their organizations transform creativity into business success.
He is a Principal of the Boswell Group, a psychodynamic management consulting firm that works with CEOs, corporate directors, and senior executives.
Charles teaches the art and science of establishing firms that unlock ‘Profitable Creativity’ as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University in New York.
He is a frequent coach at Harvard Business School’s Executive Education Program.
He contributes to Fast Company on a regular basis and speaks about creative leadership at business conferences around the world.
Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki is a Silicon Valley legend and one of the most in-demand creativity keynote speakers. With his years of expertise, relatable persona, and ability to teach others how to sell value and create meaning, it’s no wonder that so many people flock to him for advice.
As Canva’s chief evangelist, he has played a large role in helping the free online graphic design tool gain 10 million users and reach a $1 billion valuation.
Kawasaki’s extensive knowledge on entrepreneurship and creative thinking has earned him a large, international following on social media.
He is also a best-selling author of 13 different titles, such as The Art of the Start 2.0 and How to Drive Your Competitors Insane. In addition, he is an Executive Fellow at UC Berkley’s HAAS School of Business.
Linda Naiman
Linda Naiman founded Creativity at Work, a company that offers coaching, training, and consulting to help companies enhance their creativity, innovation, and leadership skills.
She advises CEOs and their teams on how to improve their creative ability, manage the creative process, and foster an innovative culture. As an artist and designer, Linda’s background affects her approach to learning and development as an educator and coach: she employs arts-based methodologies to elicit sources of inspiration and creative thinking to guide artistic development.
Linda was named a corporate creative leader by IBM in 2011 and holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from California College of the Arts as well as a certification from the Emily Carr Institute of Art + Design.
Duncan Wardle
Duncan Wardle, the former Vice President of Innovation & Creativity at The Walt Disney Company, spent 25 years there crafting some of the company’s most inventive ideas and initiatives. Ideas that would forever alter the way the organization expands its impact, trains its workers, and creatively solves challenges.
With infectious energy and playful collaboration, Duncan Wardle continues to push executives and their teams to overcome preconceived ideas, act more audaciously, and develop their own innovation “light switch,” which is a technique for activating their creative brain and accessing the ideas that turn ordinary companies into industry leaders.
Todd Henry
Todd Henry is an entrepreneur and bestselling author who helps individuals and organizations unleash their best every day.
He’s the creator of The Accidental Creative podcast, and his work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and more.
His book Die Empty was named by Amazon.com as one of the best books of 2013.
His latest book, Herding Tigers, is about what creative people need from their leaders, and how to give it to them.
Michael Gelb
Michael J. Gelb is the world’s foremost expert on using genius thinking to improve individual and organizational development. In the fields of innovative thinking, rapid learning, and innovative leadership, he is a pioneer.
DuPont, Merck, Microsoft, Nike, Raytheon, and YPO are among the companies that Gelb has led seminars for. His diversified, multinational clientele benefits from his more than 30 years of expertise as a professional creativity speaker, seminar leader, and organizational consultant.
Michael has also written a number of best-selling audio programs, including Mind Mapping: How to Unleash Your Natural Genius, Work Like Da Vinci: Using Creativity to Improve Your Business and Career, and The Spirit of Leonardo.
Tom Oliver
Tom has been given a lifetime of access to some of the most powerful minds of our generation, including best-selling writers, Nobel Prize winners and world leaders. “He is in a unique position to teach others how to find innovative answers to complex problems” (Google HQ, Silicon Valley). Tom is also a regular contributor on news channels such as CNN and Bloomberg.
Tom is the brains behind the Tom Oliver Group, a successful management consultancy with international reach and an impressive clientele. The group works with some of the biggest names in various fields, including CEOs of fortune 500 companies, top finance firms, and renowned tech giants like google.
Ed Catmull
Ed Catmull is a widely esteemed figure in the business and artistic sectors as the co-founder of Pixar, a tiny start-up with an immodest objective.
He speaks with considerable experience and thinking about leading creative organizations, has changed the field of animation, and developed one of the most innovative and copied firms on the planet.
Catmull authored the book Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Prevent True Inspiration which has been well-received.
Chris Barez Brown
Chris is the founder of Upping Your Elvis, a company that uses seminars, presentations, and events to help organizations become more human, dynamic, and creative.
He is an expert in the field of change and creativity and delivers engaging presentations that are inspiring and dynamic. Recently, the Harvard Business Review just published an article about the impact of his work with Unilever.
During his presentations and seminars, he pulls out the potential in everyone through his humor, charisma, and knowledge, and people leave not only inspired and motivated, but also thinking a bit differently about the world: equipped with concrete tools to make an immediate difference in their work and lives.
Todd Hewlin
Todd Hewlin is an authority on disruptive technologies, and he aids companies in creating strategies that will work in practice, not just in theory.
He leads a team of innovative thinkers and experienced professionals at TCG Advisors, who are able to identify trends quickly, come up with theories, and test them thoroughly to provide reliable guidance and fresh perspectives.
He has over two decades of experience in the tech sector, most recently as head of Symbol Technologies’ $1.5 billion product division.
Todd Hewlin is a regular creativity speaker at top industry conferences and contributor to magazines like Wired, where he writes about how the business landscape is changing for tech companies.
Judy Sorum Brown
Judy Brown is an educator, lecturer, facilitator, poet, and writer who focuses on leadership, transformation, learning, discussion, and developing creativity in companies.
She is interested in organizational methods that include thought and inquiry as a Quaker. She is fascinated by the power of language and metaphor to transform our thinking and open us up to new views as a writer and poet.
She is interested in how leaders maintain vitality, a sense of purpose, and direction as an executive. And, as a scientist, she’s interested in learning more about how we have openings into greater consciousness and how those experiences enable us to gather our energies in tremendous ways for transcendent, social, and organizational objectives.
Roger Von Oech
Roger earned a bachelor’s degree in history and philosophy from Ohio State University. He was also awarded Phi Beta Kappa, the President’s Scholarship Award, and the Scholar-Athlete Award while at the university. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in the “History of Ideas,” a self-created multidisciplinary program.
Roger started working for IBM as a marketing agent selling database and data communications applications after college. He learned two essential lessons while there: (1) You can have a wonderful concept, but it won’t get very far if you can’t market it; and (2) Many people get tunnel vision and miss a lot of good ideas around them. In his speeches and keynotes, he includes these lessons and their ramifications.
Erik Wahl
Erik Wahl is a world-renowned creativity keynote speaker, graffiti artist, entrepreneur, and a best-selling author. He has developed to become one of the most sought-after corporate speakers accessible today—both in business and education—drawing on his background as a businessman and an artist.
Erik’s on-stage painting transforms into a visual metaphor for the crux of his message, pushing schools and businesses to become more innovative and profitable through better performance. AT&T, London School of Business, Disney, Microsoft, Exxon Mobil, FedEx, Ernst & Young, and XPrize are among his clients; Erik has even given a TED talk. The outpouring of support has been overwhelming, with standing ovations to show it.
He has shared his great message with the world’s largest and most prominent companies and educational organizations over the last ten years, leaving behind his valued artwork as a testament to his love for breakthrough thinking.
Josh Linkner
Every step of his trip has been out of the ordinary. Josh established four internet firms from the ground up, with a combined value of over $200 million, as the founder and CEO. He’s employed inventive techniques to topple competitors, fight through hardship, and accomplish at the highest levels as a hyper-growth CEO for almost 20 years.
Josh is a top-rated keynote speaker on creation, creativity, transformation, and hyper-growth leadership who has been recognized internationally. His keynotes are designed to not only inspire audiences but also to provide concrete solutions for achieving tangible results.
Josh’s New York Times bestselling books include “Disciplined Dreaming: A Proven System to Drive Breakthrough Creativity” and “The Road to Reinvention: How to Drive Disruption and Accelerate Transformation.”
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