Category: Creativity, Innovation and Disruption Keynote Speakers for Your Event

  • Sylvie di Giusto

    Sylvie di Giusto

    International keynote speaker, Sylvie di Giusto, brings her expertise from a successful corporate career in Europe to every presentation. Formerly the head of a management academy and innovation hub, she developed innovative programs for high-end education with never-before-used training methods. As the Chief of Staff for the Chief Human Resources Officer of Europe’s largest tourism and retail group, Sylvie also coordinated all group-wide human resources teams and activities.

    Keynote : Forever Human
    Keynote : The Power of Choice
    Keynote: You Have 7 Seconds. Make Them Count!

    MULTI-AWARD WINNING HALL OF FAME KEYNOTE SPEAKER

  • Diana Kander

    Diana Kander

    Diana Kander revolutionizes the way businesses look at innovation and curiosity. A New York Times best-selling author, innovation consultant and keynote speaker, she asks some big questions. What kind of culture needs to exist in an organization to ensure innovative ideas and practices? How has Snoop Dogg continued to innovate decade after decade to stay relevant to the next generation? What causes name brands to lose relevance with their customers and go out of business? Can organizational decline be prevented?

    Diana has spent her career challenging assumptions and asking thought-provoking questions. A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee at the age of 8, she has launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services. She outlined her biggest lessons learned for launching new products in her first book, All In Startup, which has been used by over 100 universities in their innovation courses and countless large organizations to help their employees think more like entrepreneurs.

    Keynote : Go Big Or Go Home

    Keynote: Unleash Your Curiosity

    NEW Book Go Big or Go Home (keynote video reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPg2i4aJdMc )

    A serial entrepreneur who entered the U.S. as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of 8, Diana had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thrirties.

  • Byron Reese

    Byron Reese

    Speaking across the globe, Byron brings great enthusiasm and talent for deciphering our common destiny and unlocking business opportunities within it. As a successful entrepreneur and award-winning futurist, Byron employs his perspective as a historian, futurist, and technologist to illuminate how the technology of today can solve some of our most daunting global challenges.

    As a futurist, he understands the unprecedented technological change upon us and explores the dramatic transformation of society it will bring. As a technologist and entrepreneur, he knows how to manage change and inspire innovation, while still meeting the immediate obligations and realities of operating a business.

    Today Byron is the CEO of JJ Kent, a venture-backed technology company using proprietary AI tools to create new products that delight consumers. Byron has served on numerous public and private boards and presently resides on the board of directors for GigaOm, a technology research and analysis firm focused on helping business leaders understand the implications of emerging technologies and their impacts on business, media, and society.

    A highly sought-after keynote speaker, enlightening attendees across nations, Byron is an in-demand forward thinker in his field.

    Keynote : Techno-Optimism – “The Coming Golden Age of Humanity”
    Keynote : AI & Employment – “The Future of Work”

    Byron Reese helps organizations harness human potential and embrace technology to build to build a better future. He is a tech entrepreneur uniquely positioned to speak on the transformative effect of technology on the workplace and society at large.

  • Jason Bevan

    Jason Bevan

    Jason was head of creative development at Warner Bros. Studios, working from London to create major international ideas that helped propel and market major films to stardom. Jason
    worked on most of the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts Films, Joker, Aquaman, The Batman/Dark Knight films, through to Oscar winners like A Star Is Born, iconic comedies/animations and even chilling horror franchises with the IT and Conjuring films. He has worked directly with some of the world’s most legendary film-makers, storytellers, cast and film studios for 20 years and distills a number of their insider techniques into easy to use, yet powerful tips we can all employ immediately to improve our innovation, creativity and storytelling

    Keynote : Rocketfuel Your Organization With Creativity And Innovation : Insider Secrets From Big Movies And Their Makers.
    Keynote: Perfect Your Pitch With The Secret of Hollywood Storytelling

    TedTalk:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSKaSeZnSec

    Innovation & Creativity Speaker – Former Head of Creative Development & VP Marketing EMEA Warner Bros. Studios Co Founder and MD Content Creator Studios

  • Derreck Kayongo

    Derreck Kayongo

    With his trademark panache, Derreck Kayongo tells his courageous story of survival, social entrepreneurship, and humanitarianism, and the life lessons he learned along the way. From Ugandan refugee to successful entrepreneur, CEO, and renowned human rights activist, Derreck’s journey inspires audiences to dream big.

    Through personable and articulate storytelling, he shares his visionary ideas for harnessing the power of observation and creative problem solving, applicable to any organization or community. It’s all about taking responsibility while looking for opportunities to improve. Derreck is the founder of the Global Soap Project: a humanitarian aid organization that collects discarded and unused soap from thousands of hotels worldwide, reprocesses it, then distributes it to in-need populations around the world. The project was born from his simple observation about how much soap is available in hotels, and how much is thrown away when hotel rooms are turned. This simple observation became an innovative idea that is now battling global health issues in 90 countries. Hygiene-related diseases, and the resulting deaths, have dissipated in many at-risk communities, thanks in part to Derreck’s creative problem solving. His energy and enthusiasm are unmatched as he brings his stories and principles to life. Key factors of his personal and professional success are identified with the memorable acronym S.E.L.F.: Service, Education, Leadership and Faith.

    He calls upon his dynamic experiences to empower audiences, inspiring an entrepreneur spirit made possible only through creative problem solving. Derreck’s emotionally-packed presentations linger long after his speech, empowering audiences to invent their own self-made motto of success so they can create tangible change in the world. Derreck’s passion for helping others and commitment to innovative thinking led him to the role of CEO of the National Center for Civil and Human Rights.

    During his time as CEO, he elevated the global visibility of the Center, showcasing stories of victims of civil rights abuse and the heroic actions that changed the course of history. Derreck currently serves on the board of advisors at Sharing Sacred Spaces, an organization devoted to building local, sustainable inter religious communities working together for peace and civic change. Derreck Kayongo is an internationally recognized visionary and humanitarian. The Global Soap Project demonstrates his creativity and innovation, making him a leader in both global health and environmental sustainability.

    Keynote: Harnessing Your Power To Create Change
    Keynote : Reimagining Diversity & Inclusion : A Pathway To Courageous Conversations
    Keynote : Channeling Your Passion To Build A Legacy

    CNN Heroes Tribute Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sauWSDPBV3g

    Former CEO of the Center for Civil and Human Rights, Social Entrepreneur, Global Soap Project Founder, CNN Hero, and Max Award winner for best innovative entrepreneur.

  • Jeff Tobe, M.Ed, CSP

    Jeff Tobe, M.Ed, CSP

    Over 20 years as a global speaker, trainer, and business consultant has given Jeff the experience to apply best practices from leading companies to improve the customer experience across a wide range of industries. He has spoken in over 53 companies urging organizations to make the leap to customer experience thinking.
    Whether you’re an accountant, an HR professional, a retailer, or a doctor, you share one survival imperative: If you truly want to focus on your customer, you must see your business as your customer sees it. Jeff helps employees and employers put on their “customer glasses” to create meaningful change.

    2026 NEW Keynote : The Future of Strategic Leadership
    Keynote: Coloring Outside The Lines Creating A New Customer/Patient Experience
    Keynote: Real Time Legacy : Creating A Mentoring Mindset

    Make the leap from customer SERVICE to customer EXPERIENCE! Author of the best seller: “The CX Edge: Critical Customer Experience Questions to Help You ATTRACT, KEEP and WOW Customers.

  • Bill Stainton

    Bill Stainton

    Bill Stainton, CSP, CPAE is a 29-time Emmy Award winner and a Hall of Fame keynote speaker. As the producer of the longest-running, highest-rated, and most award-winning comedy TV show in the United States, he led his innovative team to over 100 Emmy Awards of their own, and ten straight years of #1 ratings. Along the way, he worked with—and learned from—people like Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, and Bill Nye the Science Guy.

    He is passionate about demystifying innovation, and empowering innovation in everyone. His overriding message is that innovation is not just for the “gifted few.” In fact, as Bill says, we are all the gifted few—and he proves it in every program.
    Bill is the author of The Innovation Blueprint, The Executive Producer, and Lead Like the Beatles, has been cited in Forbes and The Wall Street Journal, and has been a regular columnist for Seattle Business magazine. He’s written hundreds of articles on the topics of Innovation, Creativity, and Breakthrough Thinking. His TEDx Talk on the subject has been seen by over a quarter of a million people (and counting).
    Professionally, Bill is a CSP (Certified Speaking Professional), the speaking industry’s highest earned international measure of excellence. Fewer than 5% of professional speakers worldwide have achieved this designation. And in 2019, Bill was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame, joining fewer than 200 speakers in the world in this exclusive club.
    All of this from a guy who grew up behind a dairy farm in the Amish countryside of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A strange start, perhaps, for someone who then spent 20 years in television, rubbing shoulders with celebrities and rock stars (he’s played drums with members of Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and the Who). But it all comes together on stage, where Bill brings his unique life experience to every customized program.
    Bill is passionate about innovation and creative thinking. He has helped thousands of people in hundreds of organizations—like Microsoft, Boeing, Amazon, and Nike—generate breakthrough ideas by tapping into their own natural creativity and innovation.

    Keynote: Connect the Dots : Breakthrough Thinking, Innovation For “Non Innovators”, Turning Creativity Into Money

    Bill Stainton, CSP, CPAE is a 29-time Emmy Award winner and a Hall of Fame keynote speaker. As the producer of the longest-running, highest-rated, and most award-winning comedy TV show in the United States, he led his innovative team to over 100 Emmy Awards of their own, and ten straight years of #1 ratings.