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Mitch Joel

Future Strategy, AI Transformation, and Modern Marketing Expert

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The Three Little Pigs of Disruption
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When brands like Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Cisco, and Unilever want to know what’s next for them (and their customers), they call Mitch Joel. He brings clarity, direction, and momentum at a time when every industry is wrestling with rapid transformation, new technologies, and rising customer expectations. Having been on the frontlines of media, culture, and technology for more than 30 years, he helps organizations innovate, stay relevant, and rethink the future in ways that are meaningful, not theoretical. his engaging, entertaining, thought-provoking, and customized keynotes leave audiences with practical insights they can use immediately.

Named one of North America’s leading visionaries” by Strategy magazine and awarded the highly prestigious “Top 40 Under 40”, Joel has delivered thousands of keynote presentations to organizations around the world, across both the B2B and B2C industries. He is also the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete and the host of Thinking with Mitch Joel, one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world. It features weekly conversations with renowned thinkers and business leaders.

Joel is the co-founder of ThinkersOne, a platform that enables companies to bring personalized thought leadership from world-class thinkers into team meetings, events, and off-sites in surprising and meaningful ways. Prior to this, Joel was both an executive and entrepreneur in technology and media. He published music magazines, launched a record label, built media sales for one of the first search engines (before Google), marketed early mobile content platforms (before smartphones), and ultimately built and sold his own global marketing agency, which operated in 25 countries with close to 3,000 employees.

In 2019, Joel was named to Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s “100 Coaches” list, celebrating the world’s top leaders, thinkers, and executive coaches. Thinkers50 included him in their Radar class of 2021, recognizing the thinkers set to shape the future of business. He regularly publishes articles and makes weekly radio appearances exploring the intersection of business transformation, technology, artificial intelligence, and culture.

If your next event is focused on understanding the future, embracing disruption, exploring the rise of AI, or rethinking what leadership and marketing look like in an accelerated world, Joel’s keynotes are designed to meet audiences where they are and take them somewhere new.

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Presentations listed below include in-person and virtual keynotes, as well as workshops, fireside chats, and other presentation formats.

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  • We have been inviting Mitch to present to our top clients and internal teams for close to ten years. His material is always fresh and cutting edge. As you can imagine, Google has a constant flow of speakers coming in and out of our global doors, Mitch’s ratings are always through the roof. He’s one of our top-rated speakers, because he delivers actionable content with amazing visuals and stories. He’s become a true friend to Google and has helped out our B2B and B2C clients all over the world.

  • We were supposed to move right into the next section of our meeting, but you blew up the room (in a good way). People asked for a ten-minute break to pull themselves together!

  • Starbucks’ marketing team often invites inspirational leaders and subject-matter experts to come in and share their thoughts, insights, and ideas on how we can continue to connect with our consumers in a meaningful way, and Mitch Joel is one of the best speakers we’ve seen. Mitch brings a terrific perspective on new marketing and branding channels that could help any organization engage their consumers, and our marketing team was extremely impressed by his extensive knowledge, entertaining delivery, and obvious passion for what he does. We would highly recommend Mitch as a speaker for any sized event, especially if you’re interested in learning not only what works in marketing today, but also what’s going to work tomorrow.

  • I am constantly trying to better understand how innovation, technology and marketing can help us be better — do more and do it faster. As such, I often host events for the tech community and our team members here at Shopify Headquarters. Mitch Joel is one of the best speakers we have had. Deep insights, packed with real and tangible skills that we all can use to become better business people. I can’t recommend him enough. I love Mitch!

  • Whether it’s the National Retail Federation’s Big Show stage or a Shop.org keynote, Mitch Joel always delivers. We consistently get incredible audience feedback on how relevant, timely, inspiring, and actionable his content is. Whether you need him to open an event as the morning keynote, wake an audience up in the sometimes dreaded after-lunch slot, or as your perfect closing keynote, Mitch will nail it each and every time. If you’re looking for someone to passionately deliver content about innovation, consumer behavior, and marketing, look no further. He also happens to be wonderful to work with, is always interested in hearing about your audience breakdown to customize the content, and is a rare, humble, and authentic leader. I’m proud to know Mitch and call him a friend, and I am even luckier to have him on my go-to speaker list for top notch show education for the retail industry.

  • Mitch Joel’s presentation helped us to see that we needed to change the paradigm of how we interact with our customers. His ideas and insights have led us to new concepts in the development of our brands.

  • We had really great feedback on [Mitch’s] talk, spanning both our participants and our leadership team. Our teams all have rather high expectations for events like this — and you surpassed them.

  • Mitch brings a musician’s timing and keen instincts to hold an audience mesmerized as he opens up their minds to where brands, marketing, and technology are going today. He was one of our top-rated keynote speakers at the BRITE conference, after 9 years in New York. I highly recommend him for any business event and audience!

  • Mitch Joel thinks big. But he makes his bigger concepts feel accessible, which is a gift of any true teacher. Mitch is simply one of the best presenters I’ve ever hired — which is why I hire him again and again and again!

  • For the past five years we’ve consistently invited Mitch Joel to speak at Content Marketing World. Mitch delivers every time and always scores among the highest of our 200+ speakers every year. Always compelling, inspiring, and actionable. As long as we have an in-person event, Mitch will be invited to speak.

  • We have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of world-class speakers, and Mitch Joel is definitely at the top of this list. Fascinating content. Dynamic delivery. Above all, Mitch is just a great person to work with. Whether it’s The Art of Marketing, The Art of Sales, The Art of Leadership or some of our other day-long programs, Mitch always makes his content relevant to our audiences.

  • Mitch Joel is one of CMA’s highest rated speakers. A dynamic and inspiring speaker, Mitch consistently delivers high-energy presentations with cutting-edge information that his audience can use!

  • Mitch Joel is one of the very best in the business marketing world. When he walks on stage, the audience quickly slides to the edges of their seats. Not only did Mitch deliver what he promised when I asked him to join us as the closing keynote at nextMEDIA, he was also an incredibly supportive partner both before and after the event.

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