Speaking + keynotes
Branding Keynote Speaker
A clear-eyed, useful talk for audiences who need a better way to think about attention, advocacy and ideas that travel.
Book a keynoteMore than inspiration
Give the room a reason to keep talking.
Chris Birt is an author, creative director and strategist who has helped turn ideas into cultural signals for brands from American Express to the WNBA. His keynote makes the case for work that does not simply show up, but gets carried forward.
The result is direct, useful and built to stay with the audience after the event.
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Brand advocacy
Why real attention comes from people having a reason to repeat the story in their own words.
Ideas that travel
How to make the work clear enough to carry, bold enough to notice and human enough to believe.
What happens next
Practical ways to turn a good conversation into a sharper shared point of view.
The speaker
Experience in the work, not just around it.
Chris has co-founded agencies in Minneapolis and Denver, taught brand buzz and social media at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and written Awareness Without Advertising. He brings a creative director’s perspective to the room: precise enough to be useful, restless enough to make people look again.
See the workFrequently asked questions
What is the keynote about?
Chris brings the case for brand advocacy to life: how a clear point of view, a sharper idea and more human context can give people something worth passing on.
Who is it for?
The talk is built for conferences, leadership teams, client events, trade shows and organizations that want a useful conversation about the work their brand needs to do next.
Can the talk be tailored to our audience?
Yes. Chris can shape the examples and emphasis around the room, the moment and the question your audience needs to leave thinking about.
Is this the same as a workshop?
No. A keynote is designed to energize a room and give it a shared point of view. Teams that want to apply the thinking together can book a workshop as a follow-on session.
Bring a useful point of view to the room.
Tell Chris about your event, audience and the conversation you want to start.
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