Speaking
As a poet with a corporate background, my keynotes aim to bridge the gap between creative thinking and grounded action.
After taking time to understand your audience’s challenges and opportunities, I’ll draw from the Turn the Page™ principles to craft a customized a blend of storytelling, poetry, and interaction to provide your audience with tools crafted to shift both their perspective and tangible behavior in the direction that’ll drive lasting impact.
KEynote topics
Do Different Things Differently: Bolder Thinking for Better Results
Topics: Innovation, Creativity
As we enter the age of AI, competition is fierce, customer expectations are soaring, and the rules of the world are being rewritten in real time; we have to evolve our ways of thinking and working just as quickly to avoid being left behind. Yet despite the stakes, McKinsey reports that only 6% of leaders feel they’re fully unlocking their organizations’ potential to think originally and shape the future of their businesses. Simply put, most of us are stuck in ways of thinking and working that prevent us from moving forward.
After spending a decade with world-class innovators at Stanford and Google, Tucker Bryant discovered an unexpected perspective to help professionals break from status quo thinking and write the future with confidence: the mindset of a poet. As a nationally renowned poet, he has identified a collection of powerful principles poets have used for millennia to push past comfort zones and innovate through art—tools that offer business leaders the perspective shift needed to navigate uncertainty.
In this signature keynote experience, Tucker fuses poetic experimentation with the rigor of Silicon Valley to show audiences how to Do Different Things Differently. Participants leave inspired and equipped with practical tools to reframe problems, generate original solutions, and build cultures that thrive on experimentation, agility, and creative growth.
Do Different things Differently: From Comfort to Calling
Topics: Inspiration, Courage, Creativity, Personal development
Every day, we face a choice between the comfort of what’s familiar and the calling toward what’s possible. Too often, our most ambitious ideas remain untested—dismissed as impractical, impossible, or premature. But what if our potential isn’t limited by talent or resources, but by imagination?
Blending insights from his decade in Silicon Valley with the creative mindset of a poet, Tucker Bryant reveals how Doing Different Things Differently can move us from hesitation to action. Poets make a living exploring uncharted territory, transforming uncertainty into discovery, and finding possibility where others see limits. Their methods—curiosity, play, iteration, and bold experimentation—can help anyone reignite motivation and reimagine what’s achievable.
Through humor, story, and live poetic demonstrations, Tucker invites audiences to trade perfectionism for progress and fear for curiosity. The result is a powerful reminder that growth doesn’t come from doing the same things in the same way—it comes from Doing Different Things Differently.
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Do Different Things Differently: Leading THE Charge for Change
Topics: Leadership, innovation
In an age of constant transformation, the best leaders aren’t the ones with all the answers—they’re the ones asking better questions. Yet with markets shifting and teams diversifying, traditional leadership methods are falling short. According to Gallup, only 21% of employees strongly agree their leaders set them up for success.
Drawing from his experience at the intersection of art and innovation, Tucker Bryant shows how the creative mindset that drives poets can also unlock modern leadership. Poets navigate ambiguity, connect emotion to action, and uncover insights through exploration—all qualities that today’s most effective leaders need to inspire innovation and resilience in their teams.
In this transformative keynote, Tucker demonstrates how leaders can Do Different Things Differently to cultivate creativity, adaptability, and purpose. Attendees leave with the clarity and confidence to lead with imagination, empower their people, and drive lasting change in an ever-evolving world.