Bill Stainton: 29-Time Emmy Winner & Hall of Fame Keynote Speaker

Bio

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 Topics

Keynote #1 Connect The Dots: How to Find the Ideas that Matter

THE CRITICAL SKILL FOR TODAY’S LEADER! Einstein allegedly said, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them,” and he was right. The key to turning problems, challenges, and uncertainty into opportunity is the ability to think differently. To ask different questions, to look at situations from different perspectives. But how do you actually do that? This entertaining, engaging, and interactive keynote—from a 29-time Emmy Award-winning TV producer who had to think differently every week for 15 years—will answer that question. When you leave this session, you’ll not only know the secrets behind real innovation, but you’ll also know what thinking differently feels like—because you’ll have actually done it! You’ll see that opportunities for innovating, for connecting, and for thinking differently are, literally, all around you!

Keynote #2 Innovation For Non Innovators

WARNING: THIS TITLE IS A LIE! There is no such thing as a “non-innovator.” There are only people who don’t believe they are innovative. You probably have a number of these people on your team—which is great news, because it means you’ve got an untapped gold mine at your fingertips. In this energetic, entertaining, and enlightening keynote program, 29-time Emmy Award-winner Bill Stainton will prove that everyone is an innovator—including everyone on your team! For 15 years as a TV producer, Bill had to be innovative—on demand—each and every week. And he found that innovative solutions are not a matter of “waiting for the lightning bolt”—they’re about specific, learnable techniques that spark innovation. Bill, the author of The Innovation Blueprint, knows those techniques because he implemented them. Every week. For 15 years. And he’ll show you how to implement them as well.

Discover the one thing that separates innovators from non-innovators (and how to use it to your advantage).

Shatter—once and for all—the “I’m just not creative” roadblock.

Find out what the “Homer Simpson moment” is, and how innovators treat it differently than the rest of us.

Eliminate the idea that innovations have to be earth-shattering in order to “count” (and find out what this has to do with ketchup).

Become an innovator. Immediately. Even before the program is over.

Debunk—for good—the myth that some people (and some industries) just aren’t innovative.

Discover what thinking differently really feels like, so that you can reproduce it on demand.

Learn the 2 critical skills for breakthrough thinking.

Uncover the secret to coming up with your Million-Dollar Ideas.

Gain hands-on tools for elevating your breakthrough thinking skills.

ELITE INNOVATION LAB

THIS IS NOT A KEYNOTE! This is an add-on program to any of Bill’s above keynotes on Innovation

During Bill’s keynote, you learned what innovation really is, and how you (yes, you) can put it use within your team. Now it’s time to do just that. In this invitation-only application session, you’ll roll up your sleeves and apply Bill’s innovation tools and techniques specifically to a challenge, problem, or opportunity that you’re currently facing. The relevance of this session is guaranteed, because you yourself, in conjunction with your team, will actually choose the issue(s) you want to work on. Depending on the length of your lab (anywhere from 1 to 3 hours), you’ll apply multiple innovative approaches to your business, all under the guidance and facilitation of innovation expert Bill Stainton.

Generate dozens of creative and innovative solutions to your most pressing business challenges and opportunities.

Experience highly effective innovation tools and techniques first-hand, so that you can use them over and over again whenever you want.

Learn how to look at your business in new and different ways—including ways that your competition would never think of.

Discover that you and your team are innovative, and that innovation is actually much easier than you think.

Laugh a lot, because creativity, innovation, and laughter go hand-in-hand.

Call or text Neal at (720) 498 -3275 or email neal@infinitespeakers.com to schedule a pre booking call with Bill or book him now for your upcoming event