Creativity / Innovation / Design Speakers

Jeffrey Baxter

Grammy Award-winning rock guitarist with the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, Baxter is now an advising member of Congress, the defense industry, and the military. Baxter teaches audiences what he has taught leading Pentagon and government officials - challenging old assumptions and adapting to change.

Jeff Taylor

As founder of Monster and Eons, Jeff Taylor is recognized as an innovator and visionary business leader in the Internet and careers industries. As an inspirational and enthusiastic keynote speaker, Taylor zeroes in on what lies ahead by drawing on his experience as a big picture entrepreneur and expert at technology, adver ...

Erik Wahl

Wahl's special blend of warmth, humor, and experience helps audiences identify their unchallenged roadblocks to success. He is passionately committed to helping businesses explore new levels of vision and performance through creativity.

Rowan Gibson

A global business strategist, a bestselling author and an expert on radical innovation, the media have labeled him “a guru among the gurus.” He teaches organizations how to seize new growth opportunities, create new markets and even transform industries by recalibrating their whole organizational system around the parad ...

Jeff Tobe

Tobe's extensive background as an award-winning sales and marketing entrepreneur has made him the leading authority on creativity and innovation in business. Tobe, who has owned his own advertising agency for the past 10 years, believes in the power of creativity to manage the change that is inevitable with innovation, and ...

Benjamin Zander

Since its foundation, Zander has held the esteemed position of conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra. A highly sought after speaker, he captivates audiences with his take on teamwork, creativity, leadership, the transformational power of music, extreme experiences, and how to be outrageous, courageous, and risk ta ...

James McLurkin

As a child, McLurkin was constantly building with LEGO bricks, cardboard boxes, or any other materials he could access. Today, he continues this tradition using Mother Nature as a model researching and developing algorithms and techniques for constructing and programming large swarms of autonomous robots.

Ray Kurzweil

Ray Kurzweil is an inventor, entrepreneur, author, and futurist. Called “the restless genius” by The Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes, Kurzweil’s ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, ranging from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton.

Chip Kidd

A brilliant designer who allies content and imagination with visuals, Kidd creates some of the most impactful, and yet subtle images that draw readers between the covers of a wide range of literature today. Iconic and ingenious, he lives up to the public fanfare that has crowned him "the closest thing to a rock star" in the ...

Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak changed the world of computers when he designed Apple's first line of products: The Apple I and the Apple II. Wozniak is also the founder of Wheels of Zeus, a company which created wireless GPS technology. He is a philanthropist who contributes large amounts to schools for state of the art technology equiptm ...

Dewitt Jones

Jones is one of America's top professional photographers with a career stretching over twenty-five years. As a motion picture director, he had two films nominated for Academy Awards before he was thirty. Fifteen years with "National Geographic", photographing stories all over the globe, earned him a reputation as an excepti ...

George Martin

Knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 1996, and winner of both the Grammy Lifetime Achievement and Novello Awards, producer, arranger, composer, and author, Sir George Martin has had an impact and influence on music and popular culture that is immeasurable. He brought to the world the most original, successful, and influential mu ...

Roger Nierenberg

After a distinguished career at the helm of two American orchestras, Roger Nierenberg is now emerging as a creative force for innovation in the presentation of symphonic music. Nierenberg created the "Music Paradigm in 1995," an interactive learning experience for organizations. Each session of "The Music Paradigm" is cust ...

Robin Crow

Crow is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and one of the most innovative guitarists in the world. As a nationally recognized speaker, Crow's no-nonsense, tell-it-like-it-is approach has become his trademark, because he knows firsthand what it takes to be successful.

Ram Charan

Charan is a highly acclaimed business advisor, speaker, and author. He has coached some of the world's most successful CEOs. For 35 years, he has worked behind the scenes at companies like GE, KLM, Bank of America, DuPont, Novartis, EMC, Home Depot, 3M, and Verizon.