May 6, 2024
Top 10 Storytelling Speakers
Did you know you could exponentially increase the value of your product, service, or business by telling a story? In the Significant Objects experiment, pairing thrift-store objects with stories increased the overall value of the objects by 2,700 percent. Storytelling could be the key to your increased sales.
If you would like to learn how to tell better stories for business, BigSpeak Speakers Bureau works with the Top 10 Storytelling Speakers. These storytelling speakers have helped Fortune 500 businesses improve their marketing, increase their sales, and reach more customers through the power of story.
1) Matthew Luhn
Matthew Luhn is an accomplished storyteller and business consultant, with over 25 years’ experience working on Toy Story films, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, and more at Pixar. He shares the secrets of Pixar’s storytelling to help your business.
2) Omar Johnson
Omar Johnson is a top marketing and branding keynote speaker, former CMO at Beats by Dre and former VP of Marketing at Apple. Omar shares tips on branding, marketing, and storytelling that helped make Beats headphones an international brand.
3) Jay Ward
Creative director at Pixar is a top storytelling keynote speaker and innovation expert who worked on Brave, Monsters Inc, and Cars. His signature presentations focus on building creative, successful workplace cultures and how storytelling skills can be used by businesses to connect, motivate and lead, no matter what industry they are in.
Duncan Wardle is an innovation and creativity keynote speaker. Using art and activities, Duncan pushes executives and their teams to overcome preconceived notions, act more audaciously, and get inspired to find ideas to build their stories.
5) Kelly Vero
Kelly Vero is a futurist, Metaverse architect and top storytelling keynote speaker with over 30 years of experience in the game development industry. A bestselling fiction author and passionate educator, she’s an expert crafter of strong narratives with an understanding of how to market to both children and adults who loves fielding audience questions and engaging them in the discussion.
Marcus Collins is a top marketing and branding speaker, former Head of Digital Strategy for Beyoncé, and a Marketing Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Over the last decade, Marcus has helped “blue-chip” companies tell their brand’s story.
7) Kindra Hall
Kindra Hall is an award-winning columnist and national champion storyteller. Audiences walk away inspired and ready to use their untapped stories to close more sales and become better leaders.
Specializing in storytelling through character design, Deanna has worked at Pixar Animation Studios since 2012. Her credits include Luca (2021), Soul (2020), Onward (2020), Toy Story 4 (2019), and more. Deanna delivers panel talks and leads workshops worldwide.
Best-selling author, two time TEDx presenter, disruption expert and top storytelling keynote speaker Michael Margolis has trained thousands of people, from marketers at Google and Facebook to product designers at Uber, on how to utilize storytelling to navigate hypergrowth.
10) Reema Zaman
Reema Zaman is an actress, award-winning author and top storytelling speaker. A podcast host, screenwriter, and TV program creator, she is well acquainted with the power of a strong narrative, she has an exceptional stage presence both in-person and virtually, and has been performing since the age of six.
Whether you’re looking to do a conference, keynote, or online meeting, these storytelling speakers can deliver. Reach out to BigSpeak Speakers Bureau today to book one of the Top 10 Storytelling Speakers.
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