Creativity keynote speaker
Jason Keath teaches teams the creative process nobody ever taught them. Keynotes and workshops on creativity, social media, marketing, and how AI is changing it all.
Keynotes and workshops for
Jason Keath has spoken for Dreamforce, SXSW, Mobile World Congress, HubSpot INBOUND, Southwest Airlines, Entrepreneurs' Organization, WordCamp, Internet Hungary, Insurance Marketing and Communications Association, American Advertising Federation, Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association.
The counterintuitive guide to creativity
Why traditional brainstorming fails, and how deliberately chasing bad ideas produces the good ones. Built on the research and frameworks behind the book, with examples from companies your audience already knows.
Commanding attention in the AI era
AI made publishing free, so attention got expensive and trust became the only durable advantage. What actually earns belief now, why more output makes it worse, and how to build content people choose on purpose.
The ten biggest changes of the last year
A yearly read on what actually moved in social and creator marketing: the platform shifts that mattered, the ones that did not, and what it means for a team planning the next twelve months. Rebuilt every year.
The method
The arena
Where the talks live
Creative process, applied to a marketing team that has to ship this week. The method comes from studying how ideas actually get made. The examples come from social, content, and paid programs that had a number attached.
The takeaway
A free written guide to putting the talk into practice. Every audience gets one, and there is no email to hand over.
Not a slide export and not a summary. It is the how, staged in the order you would actually do it.
In the room
The one thing to try before you leave, while the talk is still fresh.
This week
A single exercise your team can run in a normal meeting, with the steps and the prompts.
This quarter
How to make it a habit rather than a one-off, and what to measure.
If you get stuck
The common failure points, and what to do about each one.
The book
The Counterintuitive Guide to Creativity
Out now on Kindle and in hardcover. Audiobook available Fall 2025.
“Great ideas often exist between the obvious and the absurd.”
“A quintessentially modern guide to unlocking your latent creativity. It's a rarity: equal parts inspirational, motivational, and actionable.”
“Jason helps you inspire ideas and cultivate them, so that creativity becomes a scalable skill.”
“A practical guide to reclaiming the messy, joyful, human parts of making the best ideas come to life.”
“This isn't some rah-rah creativity-is-magic fluff. It's tactical, weirdly practical and deeply human.”
“Jason was the star of our lineup for our annual conference. He has a special talent for giving creativity talks that are both highly useful and an absolute blast to listen to. His presentation had our audience captivated and left them feeling energized. One of our most creative keynote speakers ever.”
“Jason understands conference and event audiences better than most speakers. His presentations are insightful, relatable, and inspiring. I give him my highest recommendation to be featured as your event's keynote speaker.”
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Speaking and workshops start at $10,000.
Check availabilityOctober 4, 2024
I wrote this post about top creativity speakers because I want to speak at your event. Clearly, my post got your attention, so we’re halfway there. I find a lot of these top XYZ posts to be boring and sometimes not that helpful. So don’t worry, I’ve got a great group of speakers for you
August 29, 2024
Creativity is unruly and sometimes we need quick brainstorm help. Occasionally ideas flow easily like a roster of new Hallmark Christmas movies (one year they released 26 new holiday films, that’s just unreal). Because that’s not usually the case, it mostly feels like ideas run away from you, lock themselves in a treasure chest, and
June 5, 2024
Yes, play feeds creativity. But it also does more than that. When we misplace the act of play in our lives, we put ourselves at a disadvantage. “The opposite of play isn’t work; it is depression.”– Dr. Stuart Brown We need to play. Both in big splashy ways like carnivals and beach days and in