Creativity keynote speaker
Jason Keath teaches teams the creative process nobody ever taught them. Keynotes and workshops on creativity, brainstorming, and doing work that AI cannot copy.
Keynotes and workshops for
Jason Keath has spoken for Dreamforce, HubSpot, SXSW, Mobile World Congress, Southwest Airlines, Entrepreneurs' Organization, WordPress, 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.
The hidden value of human ingenuity in an AI world
Human creativity is worth more, not less, as automation gets cheaper. Where the remaining advantage actually sits, and how to build a team that presses it instead of competing with the machines on speed.
The only creative process most of us know is broken
Most teams have exactly one creative process and it was designed in 1953. A practical teardown and rebuild, with frameworks the audience can run the next morning.
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. Highly recommended!”
“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.”
October 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
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