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.

Seth Goldenberg

Entrepreneur, design visionary, and author of Radical Curiosity

Chanel Miller

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

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John Coates

Neuroscientist, former Wall Street trader, and author of The Hour Between Dog and Wolf

Adam Davidson

Co-founder of Planet Money, award-winning journalist, and author of The Passion Economy

David Ewing Duncan

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

Dave Evans

Co-founder of Electronic Arts and co-author of the #1 New York Times-bestselling book Designing Your Life

Bent Flyvbjerg

Oxford professor, economist, global megaproject expert, author of How Big Things Get Done

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

Chris Guillebeau

New York Times-bestselling author of The $100 Startup and host of the podcast Side Hustle School

Sara Hendren

Design researcher and author of What Can A Body Do?

Therese Huston

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

Alan Iny

Internationally recognized consultant, author of Thinking in New Boxes

Brian Jay Jones

Celebrated Biographer of Jim Henson, George Lucas, and Dr. Seuss

Amanda Lucidon

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

Greg McKeown

Author of the New York Times bestseller Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, CEO of THIS Inc., and Young Global Leader for the World Economic Forum

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

Philippe Petit

Famous french high-wire artist and author of Creativity: The Perfect Crime

Ben Reiter

Award-winning Sports Illustrated writer and author of Astroball

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

Victoria Sweet

Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, prize-winning historian, and author of God's Hotel and Slow Medicine

Linda Kaplan Thaler

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

Liz Tran

Executive Coach and Founder of Reset

Jeff Tweedy

Grammy Award-winning musician and frontman of Wilco

Rob Walker

Journalist and author of The Art of Noticing