Brian Solis

A world-renowned keynote speaker, 8x best-selling author and master storyteller, Brian makes digital trends, disruption and innovation approachable and meaningful...to everyone.

Expert on

  • Innovation
  • Advertising
  • Business Trends
  • Technology
  • Business Growth
  • Marketing

Fee Range

$25,000–$30,000

Travels from

CA, US

Biography

Heralded as one of the ‘top 10 people to know in Silicon Valley’, and considered “one of the most important thought leaders of our time,” Brian Solis shares his vision, research and experiences through keynotes at conferences and events worldwide to help people understand and embrace the dynamics defining the rise of digital transformation, innovation, connected consumerism and digital lifestyles. He is consistently ranked as one of the top speakers at some of the biggest events around the world including the Telstra Digital Summit in Australia, BDL Accelerate in Beirut, SXSW in Texas, Le Web in Paris and so many more.

Brian is indeed ‘Mr Futurist’. Not one to fly-by convention, Brian has personally influenced and shaped business and media through his work, lead numerous programs for Fortune 500 companies, notable celebrities, startups and is globally recognized as one of the most prominent thought leaders and published authors in new media. He’s followed by over 500,000 people online…organically. His message simply resonates and that’s why he’s also followed by some of the most influential people in business, politics, entertainment and other industries globally.

A digital anthropologist, sociologist, and futurist, Solis has influenced the effects of emerging media on the convergence of marketing, communications, and publishing. His blog, BrianSolis.com is among the world’s leading business online resources. He’s a seven-time, best-selling and award-winning author who has also pushed the publishing industry forward in his work. Whether it’s a technology or business event or an internal corporate summit, Brian brings a naturally engaging and entertaining message of clarity, meaning and inspiration.

Why Brian Solis

  • Brian Solis is a dynamic and engaging speaker with an extensive portfolio of topics that cover business leadership and transformation, disruptive technology, new, social and mobile media, connected consumerism, and the evolution of the digital lifestyle in culture and society. Brian is not a believer in generic, “one size fits all” presentations. He tailors these important topics at various levels necessary to connect with each audience. As an analyst, he also studies how the evolution of technology, business, and culture impact specific industries based on the needs of each event. His ability to connect the dots for hosts and attendees provides tangible value and direction. And, his motivational approach leaves audiences feeling empowered.
  • Brian delivers Education – Helping participants understand the opportunity before them, what they need to do moving forward, and how to execute and measure success.
  • Brian delivers Inspiration – Turning audiences into stakeholders by motivating participants to embrace new opportunities and consider new possibilities.
  • Brian delivers Alignment – Bringing leadership teams and organizations together around a new or renewed vision, mission, and purpose.

Speaker Videos

LEADING AND WINNING THE BUSINESS (R)EVOLUTION

What can we learn from some of the colossal mistakes we have seen a number of incumbent companies make? How do we survive and thrive in an era of digital Darwinism? And how did everything change so quickly?

Two major success factors are crystalized;

1. The rate and ability to embrace and enact digital transformation within the business, And

2. The development of leadership change-agents and influencers who champion innovation.

Brian presents this exciting and poignant keynote in a just-in-time session to ensure your business remains relevant in an ever-changing future. With a magnified focus on your specific industry, Brian will unpack:

  • The state and future of digital transformation and how it’s changing businesses at the very core
  • How to identify, lead and empower business mavericks and change-makers within your organization and across your industry
  • How incumbent companies are making mistakes and what you can do to avoid sealing your own fate in the same way
  • What you can do personally to change things for the better in your career and for your company

INNOVATION IN CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE

X marks the spot! Brian Solis knows what it takes to be innovative. As the principal analyst studying technology and its impact on and after numerous success stories at the forefront of Fortune 500 companies and the tech/startup world there is no speaker better than Brian to welcome you to a new era of business.

In this progressive and captivating keynote Brian explains why the future of business is experiential, sharing his insider knowledge on how to create meaningful experiences.

Audiences will discover:

  • What’s really at the heart of a great experience
  • How experiences become memories and how to connect to people’s hearts and minds
  • From Brand Experience (BX) to Customer Experience (CX) to User Experience (US) X: How to design experiences that start at the top and change how companies work, sell, and serve
  • How to design customer experiences that matter in a time of what Brian calls, “accidental narcissism”
  • How micro-moments are reshaping the new customer journey in each of the four moments of truth

CREATING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION

Remember that “Kodak moment?” Well, you’re among the last generation to appreciate its true meaning. Now the “Kodak moment” is something students and executives will examine as “that moment when businesses failed to embrace creative destruction to compete for the future.”   The key to innovation is to question everything, challenge convention, and relentlessly pursue relevance. To compete for the future starts with investing in a culture that promotes productive thinking, exploration and experimentation. That’s just the beginning however. Executives need to believe that managing teams towards goals is one thing.  It is leading people in new directions that surface new opportunities. To do so requires vision, transparency and trust. Innovation is about shifting from a management culture to that of leadership.

BREAKING AWAY FROM RIGID PROCESSES AND RISK-AVERSE CULTURES

“But this is the way it’s always been done.” – Said no successful entrepreneur ever

An idea is just an idea until it’s put into action and brought to life by people who share your vision and passion for changing the world. A world-changing idea has to not only be innovative; it has to disrupt the status quo. The challenge is to help people take their ideas shape them into something powerful. All too often though, organizations limit their ideas to that of iteration versus innovation. There’s a difference…

Iteration – Doing old things better
Innovation – Doing new things that create new value
Disruption – Doing new things that make the old things obsolete.

In an entertaining, insightful and encouraging way Brian will:

  • Inspire the audience to shift perspective and learn to unlearn
  • Help the audience bring ideas to life that are innovative and maybe even disruptive
  • Teach and motivate people to believe in their own ideas and intuitions to challenge business as usual and unlock new opportunities