Innovation + Creativity Speakers

These creativity and innovation speakers deliver inspiring lectures that ignite ideas while also providing practical lessons for getting the most from your business and your life.

Bill Burnett

Executive Director of the Design Program at Stanford and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Ed Catmull

Co-founder of Pixar Animation Studios, former president of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios, and author of Creativity, Inc.

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Porter Braswell

Executive Chairman and co-founder of Jopwell and author of Let Them See You

Eduardo Briceño

Growth mindset expert, CEO of Growth.how, and author of The Performance Paradox

David Ewing Duncan

Award-winning science and technology journalist and bestselling author of Talking to Robots

Dave Evans

Co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Angus Fletcher

Professor of story science and author of Primal Intelligence (August 2025)

Ping Fu

Co-Founder of Geomagic, author of Bend, Not Break, Executive chairman of Gelsight

Scott Galloway

Marketing Professor at NYU Stern, bestselling author, serial entrepreneur

Marc Goodman

Global security advisor, futurist, and New York Times bestselling author of Future Crimes

Therese Huston

Author of Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

Alan Iny

Internationally recognized consultant, author of Thinking in New Boxes

Valerie June

Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist

Lachi

Award-winning recording artist, disability rights activist, and CEO/Founder of RAMPD

Amanda Lucidon

Obama White House photographer, award-winning filmmaker, and New York Times-bestselling author

Chanel Miller

Artist, activist, and author of the New York Times bestseller Know My Name

Jenny Odell

New York Times-bestselling author of How to Do Nothing and Saving Time

Priya Parker

Facilitator, strategic advisor, and acclaimed author of The Art of Gathering

Jerry Saltz

Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for New York magazine

Ken Segall

Former Ad Agency Creative Director for NeXT and Apple, author of New York Times bestseller Insanely Simple and Think Simple

Linda Kaplan Thaler

Advertising Hall of Fame luminary, Chairman of Publicis Kaplan Thaler, and bestselling author of Power of Nice and Grit to Great

Jeff Tweedy

Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman of Wilco

Tim Wu

Former White House Antitrust Advisor, Columbia Law School Professor, and author of The Age of Extraction and The Attention Merchants
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