Top Creativity Speakers

Anthony E. Zuiker
As the creator and executive producer of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, one of the highest-rated dramas in television history, Anthony E. Zuiker is tuned-in to America's steep consumer expectations. Not only did Zuiker develop a blockbuster television series; he built an entertainment empire that transformed television programming and advertising. A world-wide phenomenon, the CSI franchise ...
Benjamin Zander
Benjamin Zander is the brilliant and acclaimed British-born conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. Bringing his insights as the conductor of a major symphony orchestra to leaders involved in transformation and change, Benjamin Zander has become a much sought-after speaker to major organizations all over the world including Shell, IBM, Arthur Andersen, KPMG, Sprint, NASA and the US Army. Ben
Cameron Sinclair
As the Executive Director and Co-founder of Architecture for Humanity, Cameron Sinclair is not only an architect, but an author, humanitarian and world-class visionary. During his studies at the University of Westminster and at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Cameron developed a passion in social, cultural and humanitarian design. His resulting postgraduate thesis focused on providing...
Chris Bangle
One only needs to look down the street for evidence of Chris Bangle's ingenuity and far-reaching influence. A daring designer whose work has provoked endless discussion, Bangle is best known for his tenure as Chief of Design for the BMW group, where he was responsible for bringing the designs of the BMW, Mini Cooper, and Rolls Royce into the twenty-first century.
Christian Siriano
Oprah Winfrey calls his designs "works of art." Tim Gunn calls him "a prodigy" and "the next great American fashion designer." Only 24 years old, Christian Siriano was born to design. Raised by a creative family in Annapolis, Maryland, Christian began designing at just thirteen years old and attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and then went on to study at the American...
Chuck Comeau
Chuck Comeau plays drums for the pop/punk rock band Simple Plan. He is heavily involved in all business aspects of the band. The Lava/Atlantic recording artists Simple Plan is from Montreal, Quebec, Canada — all five members are French-Canadians who were born and grew up in the province of Quebec. The band has released two studio albums: No Pads, No Helmets...
Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd is an Academy Award nominated and Emmy Award winning actor, comedian, screenwriter, and most recently business entrepreneur. He attended Carleton University in Canada, but dropped out before receiving his degree. He veered away from his study of criminology in college in order to pursue his interest in acting. He began as a comedian in various Canadian nightclubs and went...
Dany Levy
Business owner, journalist and savvy cultural observer, Dany Levy brings a sense of intensity, vision and creative voice to all her endeavors. After graduation from Brown University with a BA in English with honors in creative writing, Levy began her career in 1994 at New York magazine. There, she revamped and edited the Sales and Bargains section in 1996, and subsequently created the...
Duff Goldman
Chef Duff Goldman has been cooking since the age of four, when his Mom caught him in the kitchen watching Chef Tell and swinging around a meat cleaver. A few years later, his culinary curiosity almost cost him a finger when he decided the best way to carve a pumpkin was with the largest knife he could find in the kitchen. Despite the incident, Chef Duff found his calling and started working...
Duke Stump
A spirited and dynamic brand leader, speaker, teacher and blogger with an unbridled passion for creating what could be. Duke is Principal and Chief Architect of The Northstar Manifesto. A dynamic and progressive brand strategy studio focused on cultivating and nurturing cultural shifts in the world of sustainability. Over the past year, Duke has collaborated with a variety of luminary and...
Gentry Humphrey
How do you take a brand from big to huge? How do you make a brand part of the everyday lexicon? Gentry Humphrey, the man who helped make Air Jordans a standard wardrobe accessory, tells audiences how to move consumers by innovating, imagining and inspiring. If you doubt the influence the Jordan Brand has had on popular culture, think about this: Before the first AIR JORDAN...
Grant Achatz
Grant Achatz is the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Chef of 2008. His restaurant, Alinea, was named “Best Restaurant in America” by Gourmet Magazine. After opening, Alinea rapidly garnered top ratings from Mobil, AAA, Zagat, the Chicago Tribune, Time Out, Gayot, and was named to the Top 50 Restaurants in the World by Restaurant Magazine, UK.
Harry Thomason
Harry, a native of Hampton, Arkansas, attended Southern Arkansas University and continued graduate studies in education at the University of Arkansas. A college scholarship athlete, Thomason was a football coach and art teacher in secondary schools for six years before he decided to pursue filmmaking as a career. He has produced award winning television movies including A Shining Season...
Hollis Gillespie
Writer and former flight attendant Hollis Gillespie is a syndicated columnist and top-selling author. Her column "Moodswing" appears in the alternative weekly Creative Loafing. She is the travel columnist at Paste Magazine and writes a humorous financial column for BeE WOMAN magazine. Hollis has appeared on the cover of numerous publications including Atlanta magazine, Creative Loafing...
John Cleese
Best known for his brilliant humor and classic TV and film performances, John Cleese is also an extraordinarily popular lecturer who enthralls packed audiences worldwide. Often named the funniest man alive, John Cleese is both a versatile comedic actor and a leading business motivator.
Joss Whedon
Emmy and Oscar nominee Joss Whedon is one of Hollywood's top creators, scripting several hit films and creating one of television's most critically praised shows, Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Born in New York June 23, 1964, Whedon is a third-generation television writer. His grandfather and father were both successful sitcom writers on shows such as The Donna Reed Show, Leave It to Beaver and...
Kara DioGuardi
While you may know her as the American Idol judge who sits between Simon Cowell and Ellen DeGeneres, Kara's songs have appeared on more than 150 million albums, and she remains one of the industry's most sought after songwriters and producers. Kara is a Grammy nominated hitmaker, 2007 BMI Pop Songwriter of the Year, 2007 SOCAN Award winner, and has been awarded 15 BMI Awards for co-writing .....
Kat Von D
Kat Von D, 28, is one of the most respected and sought-after tattoo artists in the world. She's also the star of TLC's series "L.A. Ink," a spin-off of "Miami Ink," which Kat was featured on for two seasons. The hit series "L.A. Ink" will be airing new episodes this July centering on the talented artists working at Kat's tattoo shop - High Voltage Tattoo. Since "L.A. Ink" premiered in Aug...
Ken Levine
Ken Levine is the co-founder, President and Creative Director of 2K Boston (formerly Irrational Games). At 2K Boston, Ken led the creation of the multi-million selling, multiple game-of-the year award winning title BioShock . Prior to Bioshock, Ken wrote the original storyline for Thief: The Dark Project and was the lead designer of System Shock 2...
Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll is the founder of Kevin Carroll Katalyst/LLC and the author of three highly successful books published by ESPN, Disney Press and McGraw-Hill. As an author, speaker and agent for social change (a.k.a. the Katalyst), it is Kevin’s “job” to inspire businesses, organizations and individuals - from CEOs and employees of Fortune 500 companies to schoolchildren - to embrace their spirit...
Kirk Ellis
Award-winning writer/producer Kirk Ellis won two Emmys and the Humanitas Prize for his work on John Adams starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. Ellis wrote and co-executive produced the seven-part HBO miniseries, which is based on David McCullough’s Pulitzer Prize-winning biography. The miniseries scored a record 23 nominations; second only to Roots in Emmy history and won a record breaking...
Marcus Buckingham
Marcus Buckingham has dedicated his career to helping individuals discover and capitalize on their personal strengths. Hailed as a visionary by corporations such as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft, and Disney, he has helped to usher in the “strengths revolution,” persuasively arguing that people are dramatically more effective, fulfilled and successful...
Matt Harding
Recently named as TIME magazine’s “#1 Viral Video of 2008,” Matt Harding’s inspiring, universally appealing videos have reached over 30 Million viewers around the globe. At 26, Matt Harding quit his job as a videogame designer and spent his life savings on a trip around the world. He took a friend’s suggestion to perform his terrible dancing techniques in the various exotic settings he...
Matthew Weiner
Matthew Weiner is the creator and executive producer of Mad Men, an AMC original series, now in its fourth season. Since its debut, the series has garnered three consecutive Emmy® Awards for Outstanding Drama Series; three Golden Globe® Awards for Best Television Drama Series; a Peabody Award; a Producers Guild Award; two Writers Guild Awards; AFI Awards for one of the Top 10 Outstanding...
Mia Michaels
From stage to screen, Mia Michaels has turned dance into inspired and unique works of passion and beauty. Up until last season, Michaels was the ever-popular, Emmy winning judge and contributing choreographer on Fox's hit TV show (and touring company) SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE. Her expertise in the field of choreographer has led her to share her talents as a regular guest choreographer and...
Morgan Webb
Morgan defies all reason as a computer and gaming wizard who's strikingly beautiful, spunky and clever. From simple philosophy student to the programmer's pin-up girl, Morgan Webb had quite a ride. She survived the dot-com bust and found a cushy spot in the offices of TechTV as host of The Screen Savers, doling out daily Windows tips to love-stricken techies.
Paul Haggis
Paul Haggis is the award-winning filmmaker who, in 2006, became the first screenwriter to write two Best Film Oscar winners back-to-back – Million Dollar Baby (2004) directed by Clint Eastwood, and Crash (2005) which he himself directed. For Crash, he won Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay. The film also received an additional four nominations including one for...
Paula Wagner
Paula Wagner, a co-owner of United Artists Entertainment, LLC (along with Tom Cruise and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc.), also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all its day-to-day operations. She and Cruise took charge of United Artists in November 2006, with the aim of reviving the venerable studio founded nearly 90 years ago by movie legends ...
Phil Gordon
Phil Gordon, one of the world’s best poker players and host of Bravo’s hit television show Celebrity Poker Showdown, is available for private poker functions. Phil Gordon is a two time winner on the World Poker Tour and is one of only three players in history to have won a WPT event and have a final-table appearance at the World Series of Poker championship event. Phil has won more than...
Ray Kurzweil
Ray Kurzweil is one of the world’s leading inventors, thinkers, and futurists. Called “the restless genius” by the Wall Street Journal and “the ultimate thinking machine” by Forbes magazine, Kurzweil’s ideas on the future have been touted by his many fans, who range from Bill Gates to Bill Clinton. Time magazine writes, “Kurzweil’s eclectic career and propensity of combining science with...
Rem Koolhaas
His unique vision and inspirational designs are seen throughout the world. One of the world's most honored architects, a recipient of the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, Rem Koolhaas is considered one of the world's most brilliant, daring and creative architects. Rem began his career as an architect not by designing a building but by writing a book. His Delirious New..
Ryan Bingham
For some artists, winning an Oscar would represent reaching a pinnacle. For Ryan Bingham, who took home the Academy Award for "The Weary Kind," his hauntingly beautiful theme song for the acclaimed film Crazy Heart, it instead represented a crossroads and a decision about which path to take. "When there are a lot of people around saying 'look, you have to capitalize on this and do something ...
Simon Cowell
From 16-year-old high-school dropout and EMI mailboy to world-famous record producer and notorious TV personality, Simon Cowell's success is the fruit of decades of hard work, an uncanny knack for spotting musical talent, and a gift for the hilariously snarky soundbite. From the podium he recounts his years as a musical impresario and shaper of popular culture, dishes the latest juicy gossip on...
Stacy London
Stacy London is one of America’s foremost fashion experts. She is currently the co-host of TLC’s hugely popular show, What Not To Wear. In 2005 Stacy joined The Today Show on NBC as a style correspondent and has regularly appeared on Access Hollywood as a fashion expert. Previous to a career in television, Stacy developed her keen sense of style in fashion editorial. A true arbiter of...
T Bone Burnett
In his conversations and speeches, T Bone Burnett focuses on his celebrated work as a composer, music supervisor and producer for films such as O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Walk the Line, Across the Universe, Cold Mountain and The Big Lebowski. Burnett-who just won an Academy Award for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind," the theme from Crazy Heart, for which he also served as a producer.....
Terry Tamminen
“Arnold Schwarzenegger may have signed the world's toughest anti-global-warming law, but it is Terry Tamminen, his environmental adviser, who is emerging as the state's real [global warming] Terminator.” (TIME Magazine, April 9, 2007). “Terry Tamminen...is probably the most brilliant guy around when it comes to the environment,” says Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, (Outside Magazine, April...
Thomas Dolby
This gifted musician scored a Top 5 hit with his song and video "She Blinded Me With Science" and became one of the first stars of MTV in the early 1980's. He went on to record several multi-platinum albums and perform with the likes of Stevie Wonder, David Bowie, Roger Waters, Def Lepperd, Joni Mitchell and Foreigner, and this earned him 5 Grammy® nominations.
Thomas Kinkade
Twenty-five years have passed since Thomas Kinkade and his bride, Nanette, put their entire savings into his first lithograph printing in 1984. Thom found that he was inspired not by fame and fortune, but by the simple act of painting straight from the heart, putting on canvas the natural wonders and images that moved him most. It is this devotion and singular-minded focus on the...
Tim Gunn
Tim Gunn is Chief Creative Officer of Liz Claiborne Inc. In this role, he is responsible for attracting, retaining and developing the creative talent within the Liz Claiborne, Inc. portfolio of brands. Prior to joining Liz Claiborne, Gunn served as a member of the administration and faculty at Parsons School of Design for 24 years and has had a rich and deep history with the institution...
Trey Ratcliff
Trey Ratcliff (@TreyRatcliff) runs the #1 Travel Photography Blog in the world at StuckInCustoms.com, which receives over half a million monthly page views. Chris Anderson from TED called Trey a "pioneer of HDR photography." HDR (High Dynamic Range) photography is a new paradigm in art that creates images like no one has ever seen before. Trey has had the first HDR photograph to hang in the...
Victoria Labalme
Performing Artist & Communications Expert Victoria Labalme is known throughout the business community as a dynamic and motivation catalyst for dramatically improving and transforming people's presentation and communication skills...
Wade Davis
Anthropologist Wade Davis is perhaps the most articulate and influential western advocate for the world's indigenous cultures. His stunning photographs and evocative stories capture the viewer's imagination. As a speaker, he parlays that sense of wonder into passionate concern over the rate at which cultures and languages are disappearing -- 50 percent of the world's 6,000 languages, he says...
William McDonough
William McDonough is a world-renowned architect and designer and winner of three U.S. presidential awards: the Presidential Award for Sustainable Development (1996), the National Design Award (2004); and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award (2003). Time magazine recognized him as a “Hero for the Planet” in 1999, stating that “his utopianism is grounded in a unified philosophy that...
Yves Behar
Designer Yves Behar has produced some of the new millennium's most coveted objects, like the Leaf lamp, the Jawbone headset, and the XO laptop for One Laptop per Child. Over the past decade, Yves Behar and his firm fuseproject have become the design group that companies turn to for a game-changing idea. Take the re-invention of the Bluetooth headset, for one; or the re-envigoration of...
Zach Braff
Zach Braff stars as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian in NBC's hit comedy Scrubs. For his portrayal of the quirky doctor Braff was nominated for a 2005 Emmy Award and received three consecutive Golden Globe nominations in 2005, 2006 and 2007. Aside from acting Braff has distinguished himself from his peers as a writer and director. With his feature writing and directorial debut, GardenState...
More Speakers
- Grant Achatz
- Dan Aykroyd
- Chris Bangle
- Yves Behar
- Ryan Bingham
- Zach Braff
- Marcus Buckingham
- T Bone Burnett
- Kevin Carroll
- John Cleese
- Chuck Comeau
- Simon Cowell
- Wade Davis
- Kara DioGuardi
- Thomas Dolby
- Kirk Ellis
- Hollis Gillespie
- Duff Goldman
- Phil Gordon
- Tim Gunn
- Paul Haggis
- Matt Harding
- Gentry Humphrey
- Thomas Kinkade
- Rem Koolhaas
- Ray Kurzweil
- Victoria Labalme
- Ken Levine
- Dany Levy
- Stacy London
- William McDonough
- Mia Michaels
- Trey Ratcliff
- Cameron Sinclair
- Christian Siriano
- Duke Stump
- Terry Tamminen
- Harry Thomason
- Kat Von D
- Paula Wagner
- Morgan Webb
- Matthew Weiner
- Joss Whedon
- Benjamin Zander
- Anthony E. Zuiker
Creativity
Creativity
Not everyone associates creativity with the corporate landscape - which is exactly what makes these unique speakers so sought after in the world of business.
CAA Speakers on creativity in business help all levels of an organization change the way they look at the current state of their industry, illustrating how they can problem-solve and anticipate the future both individually and at a collective level.
These speakers have spent their business lives in the fields of advertising, marketing, product development and other key fields. Hearing their take on today's marketplace can be informative and inspiring. Creative business speakers for corporate events help transform audiences of motivated individuals into a group that will move forward as a cohesive unit and "think differently" about all their business pursuits.
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