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Sparking Innovation and Resilience for Media Leaders

Elevate your media organization with innovative thinking and creative strategy

Discover how Natalie Nixon inspires media leaders to reimagine content, adapt to shifting audience behaviors, and build resilient teams that thrive in a fast-evolving industry.

Empower Media Teams to Innovate and Embrace Change

Natalie’s media keynotes provide the creative tools and frameworks needed to inspire new ideas and cultivate an adaptive culture. Media leaders learn to harness curiosity, imagination, and foresight to stay competitive and creatively engaged in an industry where change is constant.

The New I in AI: Imagination, Inquiry and Intuition

Worried about how you’ll find your edge in AI? At its BEST, AI enhances human qualities at work. Natalie Nixon, a renowned creativity strategist, advocates for leveraging curiosity, imagination, and intuition to navigate this evolving landscape. Her keynote offers practical insights to redesign work and thrive in the changing paradigm.

The Future of Work is Jazz - Applying Improvisation, Collaboration and Foresight

Embrace business improvisation for success. Join creativity strategist Natalie Nixon for a keynote that envisions work as a jazz ensemble—dynamic and harmonious. Discover the parallels between jazz improvisation and agile collaboration, fostering innovation and team synergy. Gain strategic foresight tools for proactive planning. Let’s orchestrate a unified business future!

AI Is Your Co-Creator

Just as we have IQ and EQ, we also have a CQ- or a creativity quotient. This talk explores the links between creativity and leadership and how leaders with a high CQ behave, interact with stakeholders, and co-create a strategic vision.

About Natalie Nixon

Dr. Natalie Nixon is “the creativity whisperer to the C-Suite”. A creativity strategist and the CEO of Figure 8 Thinking, she helps companies reimagine what’s possible and essential by applying wonder and rigor to achieve transformative business results. She’s the author of the award-winning The Creativity Leap, is ranked in the 2024 Thinkers50 Radar and Real Leaders named Dr. Nixon one of the top 50 keynote speakers globally. She’s been featured in Forbes, INC and Fast Company.
A hybrid thinker with a background in cultural anthropology, Dr. Nixon worked in the fashion industry for a division of The Limited Brands in global sourcing. She was then a professor for 16 years and the founding director of a strategic design executive MBA program at Thomas Jefferson University.
A hybrid thinker with a background in cultural anthropology, Dr. Nixon worked in the fashion industry for a division of The Limited Brands in global sourcing. She was then a professor for 16 years and the founding director of a strategic design executive MBA program at Thomas Jefferson University.
Dr. Nixon received her BA from Vassar College, and her PhD from the University of Westminster. She’s a lifelong dancer, swimmer and doodler.

Find Out More

Yes, Natalie tailors each keynote to address the specific dynamics and challenges of the media sector.
Natalie offers both live and virtual formats to accommodate your event needs, with tailored content delivery for maximum impact.
It’s best to book Natalie at least two months in advance, though she will work to accommodate shorter lead times when possible.

Transform Your Innovation Leadership in 2025

Join Dr. Natalie Nixon for a FREE 30-minute webinar introducing the WonderRigor™ Ideas Lab Bootcamp!

Thursday, february 6 at 12PM ET

Here You can Reserve Your Spot – “Why Creativity is the Key to Innovation” – A Second Webinar

Learn how successful leaders:

  • Drive 17% higher revenue growth through creativity
  • Build innovation-ready teams
  • Lead with confidence in complexity