- Called “one of North America’s leading visionaries” by Strategy Magazine
- Trusted by brands like Google, Walmart, LEGO and Microsoft to help leaders navigate disruption, rethink strategy, and drive innovation
- Helps organizations navigate AI change to stay innovative, future-focused, and strategically ahead
- Charismatic and engaging storyteller who helps audiences understand how to thrive with disruption and leverage technologies in new ways
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About Mitch Joel
Download ProfileWhen brands like Google, Walmart, LEGO, Shopify, Microsoft, Procter & Gamble, Cisco and Unilever want to understand what’s next – for them and for their customers – they call Mitch Joel.
Every industry is wrestling with rapid transformation, new technologies, and rising expectations. As AI rapidly reshapes industries, organizations want to know how to innovate while staying authentic, staying ahead, and remaining relevant to the people they serve. This is where Mitch brings clarity, direction, and momentum.
Called “one of North America’s leading visionaries” by Strategy Magazine and honored with the prestigious Top 40 Under 40, Mitch has been on the front lines of media, culture and technology for more than thirty years. Since 2005, he has delivered thousands of keynote presentations to organizations around the world, across both B2B and B2C industries. Exclusively represented by Leading Authorities speakers bureau, his style is engaging, entertaining, thought-provoking and deeply customized, leaving audiences with practical insights they can use immediately.
Mitch is the bestselling author of Six Pixels of Separation and CTRL ALT Delete, both published by Grand Central Publishing (Hachette Book Group). He also hosts Thinking with Mitch Joel (one of the longest-running business podcasts in the world) featuring weekly conversations with the world’s leading thinkers and business leaders. His articles, essays, and weekly radio appearances explore the intersection of business transformation, technology, artificial intelligence, and culture.
Mitch is 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.
Before ThinkersOne, Mitch spent nearly three decades in technology and media as both an executive and entrepreneur. 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 to WPP, where he served as President of a firm operating in 25 countries with close to 3,000 employees.
In 2019, Mitch was named to Dr. Marshall Goldsmith’s “100 Coaches,” 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.
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, Mitch’s keynotes are designed to meet audiences where they are… and take them somewhere new.
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Speech Topics
Download TopicsHow to build organizations that stay ahead of change… instead of chasing it.
Disruption used to be an event. Now it’s the environment. The real challenge for leaders isn’t reacting to change but learning how to disrupt the pattern of disruption itself… to stop being surprised by what’s next and start building systems, cultures and capabilities that can adapt in real time. From AI to automation to shifting customer expectations, the forces reshaping business are no longer episodic… they’re continuous. This keynote helps organizations move beyond urgency and into deliberate momentum, showing leaders how to decode emerging technologies without the hype, redesign workflows for an accelerated world and build teams that thrive in ambiguity rather than resist it. Drawing on the proprietary P.A.C.E. framework, Disrupting Disruption explores how to create a strategic operating system for change. You’ll learn why disruption is no longer a threat but a source of advantage, how to align people and technology around shared direction and how to turn uncertainty into opportunity before competitors even recognize it. This is a roadmap for organizations ready to lead the future instead of inherit it… and for leaders willing to rethink not just how they respond to disruption, but how they design for it.
Leadership, Human Advantage, and Staying Sharp in the Age of AI.
Most leaders recognize that AI is the biggest cultural shift the workplace has ever experienced. The challenge with AI isn’t always the technology itself. It’s also understanding what it means for people, decision-making, creativity, and organizational identity in real time.
In this keynote, audiences will get an in-depth, actionable framework for what organizations can do to embrace efficiency without losing the sharpness, discernment, and human connection that drive innovation and trust.
Through customized insights, live examples, and future-focused strategies, Mitch explores the tension between efficiency and humanity, the impact automations have around connection, and how the rise of the Intimacy Economy is shifting competitive advantage away from attention and toward trust, originality, and human-centered leadership.
Leaders right now are looking for successful guidance around organizational transformation, and Mitch Joel delivers steps to implement from day one.
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