Jeremy Unleashes Creative Potential

2024 Speech Topics

Keynote #1: The Impact of AI on Innovation

Keynote #2: Building Innovation Capacity

Keynote #3: Achieving the Potential of Diverse Teams

Keynote #4: Ideaflow: The Practice of Innovation

Jeremy facilitates epiphanies.

He’s an adjunct professor at Stanford University, co-author of Ideaflow: The Only Business Metric That Matters, a Thinkers50 Top Innovation Leader, and a General Partner at Freespin Capital. He’s the host of Paint & Pipette: The Art & Science of Innovation, and co-host of Beyond the Prompt.

He’s had the privilege of teaching nearly a million students of innovation worldwide.

He’s a sought-after keynote speaker, and routinely receives “top marks” from audiences around the world.

His current research passion is helping individuals and organizations accelerate their comfort and confidence leveraging generative AI.

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“Jeremy's talk inspired and equipped over 30,000 people in Guatemala with the key tools and mindsets they need to solve the problems they're facing in these challenging times. Bravo!”

— Juan Stahl

Co-Founder of Ascending Mind Conference, Guatemala City, Guatemala

What People Are Saying

“I had the chance at dinner to ask in an open ended way for comments about the day -- and by far your talk was the highlight! We (faculty) were all admiring your mastery in engaging the group. This was really a virtuoso turn on the podium...thank you!…I really do admire both the substance of what you deliver in these talks and your incredibly engaging way of presenting it.”

— Dr Paul Yock

Martha Meier Weiland Professor of Medicine, Founding Co-Chair of Stanford's Department of Bioengineering, Founder and Director of Stanford Byers Center for Biodesign

“Jeremy Utley spent half-a-day with our clients opening the world of design thinking as a business practice. In short, he wowed them. It was amazing to see a room of 125 c-suite executives designing under Jeremy’s direction. The executives laughed and cried, reaching deep to design an experience that would delight and move a loved one.”

— Nathan Owen Rosenberg

Founding Partner of Insigniam

“Jeremy's work is truly impactful to international innovation audiences. I had the honor to host Jeremy's talk at the International Design Thinking Symposium organized by Stanford Center for Design and Innovation Research in Fall 2020, and his talk was definitely one of the highlights of the event. His talk was very insightful and inspirational not only to the industry attendees but also to the academic scholars in the design research community..”

— Dr. Soh Kim

Executive Director of Food Design Research, Center for Design Research, Stanford Engineering

Previous engagements include:

Southwest Airlines - Keynote for top 1,000 leaders
General Motors - Keynote for CCXO and 3,000 of her staff 
Cardinal Health - Keynote for CIO and 2,000 senior leaders 
US Bank - Keynote for CPO and 1,000 designers
HSBC - Keynote for CIO and 2,500 innovators
Constellation - Keynote at Connected Enterprise Conference
Qualtrics - Keynote for top 200 VIP CXO’s at the X4 conference 
FICO - Keynote at flagship annual conference (FICOWorld) for CMO
Other past clients include PepsiCo, Mitsubishi, USAA, San Antonio Spurs, BJ’s Restaurants, Hyatt Hotels, Michelin, Bain & Co, John Deere