Tucker Bryant: Poet & Innovation

    Tucker Bryant

    Quick Facts:

      • What Tucker Bryant learned during a decade spent between Stanford and Google surprised him: even people on the cutting edge of innovation often struggle to take risks.
      • The truth is that we all want to step out of our comfort zones, but we also have comforts so deep-seated that we aren’t aware they even exist.
      • And our instinct to protect that unconscious comfort suffocates our creativity, disengages us from our work, and stunts our ability to lead.
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    • Travels from: San Francisco, CA
    • **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000

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    The Artist’s Guide to Unlocking Innovation

    The last few years have been a merciless reminder to businesses that complacency will ruin us. Our competition is ferocious, customers expect more from us than ever, and the world is constantly one disruption away from shaking the very foundations of our successes to their bones.

    The truth is that we now have to live on the razor’s edge to even stand a chance of not being left in the dust. And yet, despite the challenges that these cataclysmic changes pose, McKinsey has found that only 6% of leaders feel fully tapped into their teams’ potential to nurture original thinkers who take an active role in authoring the future of their businesses.  

    ​After spending a decade alongside world-class innovators at institutions like Stanford and Google, Tucker Bryant has discovered an unexpected perspective professionals can adopt to confront the future with confidence: the outlook of a poet.

    As a nationally renowned poet, Tucker has identified five powerful tools poets have relied on for millennia to unshackle themselves from their comfort zones and innovate through language – tools that offer business leaders the expanded perspective we need to weather our murkiest tomorrows. 

    ​In this signature keynote performance, Tucker reveals how The Poet’s Keys™ empower leaders to unlock the doors to enhanced creativity, collaboration, and competitive advantage in the areas of our businesses that matter most.

    Audiences leave equipped with the tools to build a culture of creative disruption and bold exploration in every arena of their organizations so we’re set up to shape our business landscapes as industry leaders instead of remaining stuck in models of thinking that are bound for obsolescence.

    Using Your Voice to Inspire Action

    From boardrooms to living rooms, our ability to drive change hinges on how well we craft and share stories. In this skills-based experience, Tucker shares the highest-leverage storytelling concepts developed during his decade as an artist and tech marketer that enable us to transform our presentations into performances and leave an impact that far outlives our time on the figurative stage.

    ​Audience members leave this experience with a firm grasp on a highly versatile blueprint for crafting a resonant story and with a toolkit of tactics for dynamic and engaging presentation that will enable them to immediately distinguish themselves as impactful storytellers.

    Tucker Bryant is an entrepreneur, innovation strategist, and nationally renowned poet. After nurturing his craft at Stanford University, Tucker went on to become a lead Product Marketing Manager at Google where he discovered the potential of the creative tools poets have relied on for millennia to drive innovative leadership in the corporate world.

    Tucker Bryant | Poet & Innovation Speaker

    After a decade in Silicon Valley, Tucker left Google to challenge leaders to unlock creativity, collaboration and competitive advantage using The Poet’s Keys™.

    His performances, which have garnered millions of views online, have featured at TEDx, The New York Times, and dozens of other organizations across the globe.

    He has had the privilege of sharing on stages alongside Mark Cuban, Bill Belichick, Gary Vaynerchuk, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, and Mel Robbins as well as governors and executives from scores of Fortune 500 companies.

    With Tucker Bryant, you gain access to his exclusive Poet’s KeysTM—strategies and techniques that unlock the full potential of your team. He will inspire collaboration, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives are celebrated, and innovative ideas flourish.

    Tucker Bryant’s achievements speak volumes. His performances have garnered millions of views online and have been featured at prestigious platforms like TEDx and The New York Times. He has shared stages with renowned visionaries, including Mark Cuban, Bill Belichick, and Magic Johnson, as well as governors and executives from Fortune 500 companies.

    Tucker’s keynotes draw from a decade of crossover experience as an artist in Silicon Valley to challenge leaders to engage with opportunities for growth by drawing from the surprising insight woven throughout the world of poetic thought.

    His keynotes, which blend poetic storytelling with business insight, are tailored to the audience’s business context and offers customized takeaways in order to engage attendees from an angle that is at once aspirational while remaining direct, intimate, and relevant.

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