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A magnetic keynote speaker, Nixon shares why creativity is not a “nice to have” but a “must have” and leaves audiences with practical techniques to upgrade their organizational and individual creative capacity in the midst of ubiquitous technology and hybrid work environments — always with an eye on innovation and the future of work.

Marketing guru Seth Godin has said that Nixon “can help you get unstuck and unlock the work you were born to do.”

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Marketing guru Seth Godin has said that Nixon “can help you get unstuck and unlock the work you were born to do.”

“Creativity is a competency that is essential now, during this 4th industrial revolution, and for the future of work. Creativity has a business ROI and is the engine for innovation. Remember: wonder is found in the midst of rigor, and rigor cannot be sustained without wonder.”

Sample Keynote Topics

Natalie happily customizes all keynotes!

Sample Keynote Topics

Natalie happily customizes all keynotes!

Putting the I Back Into 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.

L.E.A.P: The Extraordinary Method for Boosting Productivity and Navigating Uncertainty

When ambiguity arises, you can either flee, pause, or charge ahead blindly. Natalie Nixon, a creativity strategist, presents the L.E.A.P Method™, a straightforward approach to confront uncertainty. By Leveraging, Envisioning, Asking, and Prototyping, attendees gain clarity and actionable strategies to move forward. Remember, progress only happens in one direction: forward!

Adapt and Disrupt: Build Creativity's Business ROI in The Imagination Era

In the age of AI dominance, creativity is not optional—it’s essential. Natalie Nixon, a creativity expert, reveals how imagination drives business success. Learn from pioneering leaders, adopt dynamic methods, and unleash creativity to secure your organization’s strategic edge. Embrace innovation, wield imagination, and thrive in disruption.

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!

Curiosity is The Currency of the Future: Building a Culture of Inquiry

Do you know how to ask really, great, provocative questions? That matters not just for the increasingly basic ways we interact with AI technologies like ChatGPT, but also for executing on a compelling strategy. Natalie Nixon emphasizes the significance of questions in driving innovation and fostering dynamic cultures. Learn various question types, how to ask them effectively, and normalize a culture of inquiry.

Soft Skills Are Hardcore

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.

The New I in AI: Imagination, Inquiry and Intuition

L.E.A.P: The Extraordinary Method for Boosting Productivity and Navigating Uncertainty

Adapt and Disrupt: Build Creativity's Business ROI in The Imagination Era

AI Is Your Co-Creator

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

Curiosity is The Currency of the Future: Building a Culture of Inquiry

Putting the I Back Into AI: Imagination, Inquiry and Intuition

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

L.E.A.P: The Extraordinary Method for Boosting Productivity and Navigating Uncertainty

Curiosity is The Currency of the Future: Building a Culture of Inquiry

Adapt and Disrupt: Build Creativity's Business ROI in The Imagination Era

Soft Skills Are Hardcore

How might we innovate better and more consistently?
How might we look ahead to the next quarter/year with fresh eyes & a rejuvenated attitude?
What’s something we haven’t heard before about the future of work?
How do I build my organization’s creative capacity?

Pre-decision video or pre-decision meeting.
Once confirmed, unlimited pre-event calls.
Easy to work with for tech runs pre-event.
Access to a summary deck of the presentation post-event.
Copies of The Creativity Leap are gifted to the client and can be raffled at in-person events.

Dr. Natalie Nixon is “the creativity whisperer to the C-Suite”; a top creativity and future of work keynote speaker, advisor, and a strategy, foresight, and innovation expert. As president and founder of Figure 8 Thinking, LLC, she advises leaders on unique approaches for process transformation and leveraging creativity as an innovation resource to more rapidly achieve priority business goals.

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Inspires you to take action

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Challenges your mindset

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Shows you the business value of creativity

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Energizes and motivates your team

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Explores how to adapt and disrupt your thinking

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Encourages you to have the courage to act on your own intuition

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Gives fresh takeaways to implement immediately

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Applies a global perspective

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Blends street cred with scholarship

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Leaves you wanting more and reconsidering what’s possible

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Recognized as a Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World 2022 by Real Leaders

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Award-winning author of The Creativity Leap

"Natalie spoke to a select group of our most valued business partners and employees at our annual meeting, and she hit an absolute home run. Centered on change and what is required in a fast paced, high growth environment to adapt and thrive, Natalie was on point and impactful. As a speaker, Natalie is warm, engaging, thoughtful and funny all while having absolute command of the audience based on her background and experience in both academia and the corporate world. Virtually every attendee declared Natalie “the best hour of the entire conference!"

Natalie’s presentation on creativity was engaging, inspiring, and practical! Her framework and practical suggestions for creativity were incredibly valuable.

"Working with Dr. Natalie Nixon has been a true pleasure! The virtual keynote was insightful, engaging and inspirational, and the topic – “What to do when there is no playbook” – so well aligned with this moment in time. We particularly appreciated Dr. Nixon’s collaborative approach and interest in understanding our company and aligning with our global audience."

"Natalie Nixon brought experience and insights to help our team focus on the incredible possibility that wonder and rigor can bring to our organization. Our entire team was energized by the session and continue to infuse her teachings in our day to day culture."

"Natalie’s talk with our team expanded the aperture of how creativity can be amplified and what we can do to enhance the creativity we foster with our professional staff. She provided tangible action steps Ansira can take to ensure we are bringing the best and most creative ideas to serve our clients."

"As Natalie describes in her important new book, creativity requires holding both wonder and rigor in productive tension. She shared this and other actionable wisdom recently with our team at SYPartners. Natalie dismantles the idea that creativity is the domain of the few, and shows how everyone can take the creativity leap."

"Natalie’s keynote on Adaptation and Disruption could not be more timely for Best Buy as we continue to evolve and iterate in the ever changing macro business environment. Her presentation was very well attended – including our CEO Corie Barry. …Most importantly the feedback we have received post keynote has been tremendous on leveraging your message of adaption and creativity. I have no doubt we will see individuals think about their work with a much more customer obsessed mindset. What an awesome start to TechCon 2020!"

"At KES, our mission is to inspire leaders and organizations to imagine the future, instead of reacting to it. Natalie did a superb job at that, as she provoked our client, Twitter, but also brought tangible ways in which they can exercise their creativity and improvisational skills. Looking forward to working with her again!”

"Recently, Steelcase and Corporate Interiors had the pleasure of hosting Dr. Nixon on a webinar where she discussed the key themes from the research she conducted for her upcoming book, The Creativity Leap. Not only was Dr. Nixon able to engage over 40 people for an hour but she was able to relate to the audience with great storytelling and images that made us all feel as if we too had the ability to be super-creatives. She’s obviously passionate about her research and what drives human behavior and inspired us all to deeply understand ourselves and how we can all thrive in times of uncertainty and change."

"Natalie Nixon brings a unique blend of scientific, evidence-based insight with practical, put-into-use-today advice on leadership and the future of work. Our audience highly rated her keynote which kicked off our 27th annual venture capital conference with energy and a well-woven story of creativity, design and innovation as applied to the 4th industrial revolution. I highly recommend Natalie as a keynote speaker for an audience of any size. She will WOW!"

We are always looking for a rockstar keynote speaker to inspire and inform…Dr. Natalie Nixon had us all on the edge of our seats for her entire presentation! …My attendees absolutely loved her work across a multidisciplinary set of insights and anecdotes…punctuated with references to both her research and to hyper-relevant themes. It was inspiring, but not cliche. It was fun, but not trite. It was academic, but not condescending. It was informative, but not a lecture.

"Natalie’s Creative Leap Strategy helped our audience of marketers see the importance of creativity of all stripes, and how improvisation, inquiry and intuition will guide their businesses and work forward. Natalie is a skilled storyteller and presenter, and great partner in the process. Thank you, Natalie!"

"Natalie’s keynote on creativity was more than a leap, rather she took our learners on a journey into the depths of creativity, unearthing captivating examples across a number of industries. Her engaging, thoughtful, and witty delivery left audiences with a desire to put in the work to unleash their own creativity."

"Natalie absolutely hit it out of the park with our staff at our annual celebration event. Her fresh approach and thought-provoking insights regarding the value of creativity in all facets of our professional and personal lives really encouraged us all to make the CREATIVITY LEAP! The emphasis on innovation and wellness was so impactful. Thank you! "

"Natalie’s session at Cisco Live 2021 was fantastic! She is an engaging, authentic, joyful presenter that galvanizes us to see creativity as a learnable skill. A huge value-add for an industry focused on innovation! "

"Natalie’s talk on creativity helped the VectorWorks team to understand the very meaning of creativity: how to connect things to our software business that aren’t normally related. It also helped us to understand the role of intuition on the decision making process as well as the role of improvisation that enables one to engage with a situation as it actually unfolds."

"Natalie, Thank you SO much! What a great webinar! We can’t wait to work with you again in the future."

"Natalie is a fabulous, engaging and informative keynote speaker for all groups, especially executive and leadership audiences. We have worked together for several years and audience feedback is excellent for her approaches to innovation, creativity, change management and the future of work. We highly recommend Natalie as a keynote speaker and/or consultant for any organization needing improvements in these areas."

"Brava, Brava, Natalie! I just loved your word choices, gestures, and accessible explanations. Similarly, your slides were top notch and reflected your topic!"

"Natalie's message for the leaders of Trane Technologies Commercial business could not have come at a better time. Her message about the power of creativity to drive innovation, deeply connected with our leadership team. Natalie brings a data-based approach combined with rich storytelling that creates a compelling case for change for leaders who are committed to unleashing the full potential of their teams and unlocking growth."

“Natalie delivered an incredibly uplifting and thought provoking keynote to our design team. We were blown away by how clearly she explained the value of design!”

"Natalie gave an outstanding keynote to 100 of our key clients at our leadership summit! She sparked new ways of thinking, conversation and practical recommendations for moving forward in these complex business environments."

“Natalie inspired our team; her focus on innovation through creativity perfectly fit into our day!”

“It was great working with Natalie: her presentation was fantastic, upbeat and fun!”

“Natalie brings insight and wit to helping teams embrace creativity and innovation. I attended her "Jazz" session and it changed my frame of mind and lifted my heart.”

“Natalie spoke at our Growth Marketing Summit for CMO leaders in our portfolio of companies. She delivered both inspiration and practical advice about using creativity to deliver on business objectives during a critical time. We were referencing her ideas and recommendations throughout the duration of our Summit!”

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Sample Keynote Topics

Sample Keynote Topics

Putting the I Back Into AI: Imagination, Inquiry and Intuition

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

L.E.A.P: The Extraordinary Method for Boosting Productivity and Navigating Uncertainty

Curiosity is The Currency of the Future: Building a Culture of Inquiry

Adapt and Disrupt: Build Creativity's Business ROI in The Imagination Era

Soft Skills Are Hardcore

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