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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

Innovation

What worked yesterday might not work tomorrow. Lavin’s innovation speakers approach the issue with creativity and verve, offering hands-on methods to innovate from the ground up — improving your future while learning from your past efforts.

29 Innovation
Speakers

Jeremy Gutsche

CEO of Trend Hunter | New York Times bestselling author of Create the Future

Out of chaos winners emerge—and they’ll be bigger, better, and faster than ever before.

Radhika Dirks

CEO & Co-Founder of XLabs and Ribo | One of Forbes's 30 Women in AI to Watch | Artificial Intelligence Pioneer

Generative AI is changing the tech infrastructure of the world. Your biggest dreams—your most ambitious moonshots—are closer than ever before.

Alex Kantrowitz

Reporter and Founder of Big Technology | Author of Always Day One

To stay on track with the future, we must remain obsessed with reinvention.

Gabby Rivera

Author of Juliet Takes a Breath and the Marvel comic series America

Living a revolutionary life starts with joy.

Ellen Bennett

Founder and CEO of Hedley & Bennett | Author of Dream First, Details Later

Overthinking kills innovation. You need to dream first, and worry about the details later.

Nathan Pyle

#1 New York Times bestselling author of Strange Planet | Executive Producer of Strange Planet

The road to creativity is right beneath our feet—we just need to learn how to walk it.

Martin Ford

New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Robots and Rule of the Robots

To adapt to machine learning, we'll need to come up with unprecedented solutions.

David Eagleman

One of the world’s foremost neuroscientists | Host of PBS’s The Brain | Host of Inner Cosmos, one of America's top ten podcasts

The AI future doesn't have to be a war, but a collaboration. As AI enhances our brains, we can unlock new realms of creativity.

Stephanie Mehta

CEO of Mansueto Ventures | Former Editor-in-Chief of Fast Company

Any company can become a Fast Company by pushing their creative boundaries.

Randall Lane

Chief Content Officer of Forbes Magazine

Endless disruption has led to faster innovations, better approaches, bigger opportunities.

Douglas Rushkoff

World-Renowned Thinker | Bestselling Author of Team Human, Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus, Present Shock, and Survival of the Richest

We can be fully human in a world of technology.

Candy Chang

Urban space artist behind the "Before I Die" walls

With powerful public art, we can engage communities in real conversations.

Justin Reilly

CEO of Wavelo | Former Head of Product at Verizon

The future of business is AI First. By building Artificial Intelligence into the heart of your business, you can innovate faster than ever before.

Welby Altidor

Former Executive Creative Director at Cirque du Soleil | Group CCO, Cityneon

Within every human being lies a creative genius waiting to be unleashed.

Caitlan Maggs

FORMER CIRQUE DU SOLEIL ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Creativity is a skill, not a talent. You can learn it through practice—and unlock resilience, innovation, and collaboration.

Todd Kashdan

Bestselling Author of The Art of Insubordination and The Upside of Your Dark Side | Award-Winning Expert in Psychology and Well-Being

The best organizations build a culture that embraces healthy dissent.

Cas Holman

Award-Winning Toy Designer of the World-Renowned Rigamajig | Founder and Principal Designer at Toy Company Heroes Will Rise

Play encourages curiosity, collaboration, and creativity—for kids and adults alike.

John Maeda

Microsoft VP of Design and Artificial Intelligence | Author of How to Speak Machine

Information is expanding—if we want to use it correctly, we need to represent it visually.

Laura Huang

Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University | Faculty Director of Women's Entrepreneurship Initiative | Author of Edge

Are you looking for an edge to help you succeed? Guess what—you've already got one.

Doug Stephens

Retail and consumer futurist | Internationally acclaimed author and founder of Retail Prophet

The past few years have transformed shopping forever, but if retailers can adapt to AI and our changing supply chains, they'll survive—and thrive.

Greg Hoffman

Nike's Former Chief Marketing Officer | Author of Emotion by Design

Great brands don’t simply reach customers: they create real emotional bonds with them.

Nicholas Thompson

CEO of The Atlantic | Former editor-in-chief of WIRED

Technology and science continue to make the world a better place—we can’t lose sight of that core truth.

Ajay Agrawal

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning Expert | Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab | Bestselling Co-Author of Prediction Machines and Power and Prediction

Artificial Intelligence is disrupting every industry. You must act today to turn this disruption into opportunity.

David Robertson

Senior lecturer at MIT Sloan | Author of The Power of Little Ideas and of Brick by Brick

The third way of innovation is not radical disruption—it’s a low-risk, high-reward strategy.

Mark Johnson

Co-Founder of Innosight | Author of Lead from the Future and Reinvent Your Business Model

The future is eminently knowable—through visionary thinking.

Michael Casey

Chief Content Officer at CoinDesk | MIT Media Advisor | Author of The Truth Machine and The Age of Cryptocurrency | Web3 Expert

It’s time to rethink the internet. The blockchain offers us great potential to democratize our digital spaces and bring them back under our control.

Nina Tandon

CEO and Co-Founder of EpiBone | TED Senior Fellow

How to revolutionize an industry, one cell at a time.

Michelle K. Lee

Founder and CEO of Obsidian Strategies | Fmr. VP of the Amazon Web Services Machine Learning Solutions Lab | Fmr. Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office

7 lessons can help you implement Artificial Intelligence in your company, combining the art of the possible and the art of the practical in AI.