SPEAKINGOCT 19, 2023 · ST. GEORGE, UTAH
Disruption shows up everywhere: a social platform reaching a million users in four days, a diagnosis, a company you built. Whether in business or in life, embracing it means thinking forward, being willing to make beautiful mistakes, and connecting with your tribe.
WATCH ON YOUTUBE ↗Every talk draws on 18+ years as a founder, ecosystem builder, and enterprise innovation leader. Each one can be shaped into a keynote, a workshop, or a panel.
KEYNOTE
The TEDx talk, expanded. Applying an entrepreneurial mindset to the disruptions you didn't choose: loss, health, a company ending, an industry shifting. Think forward, make beautiful mistakes, find your tribe.
KEYNOTE · PANEL
Why the ecosystems where entrepreneurs actually thrive are built bottom-up, and how cities, economic developers, and founders can take calculated risks together instead of waiting on each other.
KEYNOTE · WORKSHOP
Lessons from ONEFIRE and ENTEVATE on human-centered innovation, experiential branding, and digital transformation that ships. What large organizations get wrong, and the operating habits that fix it.
WORKSHOP · FIRESIDE CHAT
A practical operating model for CX and innovation leaders: where AI belongs in the customer experience, where it doesn't yet, and how to bring a team along without losing them.
DEC 30, 2024 · STARTUP ANTHOLOGY
Jeremy Willis on the road from managing a Peoria banquet facility to building AUTIX, plus the mental and emotional strain founders rarely talk about.
NOV 28, 2023 · GET CELEBRITIZED WITH AUREA MCGARRY
Disrupting industries, building ventures, and community impact through mentorship and innovation initiatives.
OCT 28, 2020 · THE PEOPLE OF PEORIA PODCAST
Recorded at The Nest Coworking: growing up in Pekin, the entrepreneurial mindset, losing a spouse, and making Peoria the innovation hub of the Midwest.
JUL 17, 2019 · TARTER SOURCE WITH STEVE TARTER
On the newly launched alliance, ONEFIRE, and the potential in Peoria's future.
MAY 26, 2016 · BUILTWORLDS
How startups help large corporations reach emerging technology faster than they can build it themselves.
I speak on innovation, entrepreneurship, AI adoption, and community building for conferences, corporate events, universities, and economic development organizations. Based in Frisco, Texas and happy to travel. Send the date, audience, and format and I’ll come back quickly with a fit.
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