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.