
Dustin Garis Voted #1 Keynote Speaker
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"The most engaging and mind-blowing keynote!" - AMA
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Leads transformational change across nearly all industries and regions of the globe.
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"The Indiana Jones of Marketing" and pioneer for billion-dollar brands at P&G, Ericsson, AMEX, The Coca-Cola Company, and other Fortune 500s and entrepreneurial ventures.
Dustin Garis is a world-renowned brand innovator, consistently voted "the #1 event speaker." Throughout his disruptive career at some of the world's most breakthrough companies, such as The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, and Ericsson, Garis went by the title of "Chief Troublemaker" for his ability to push the boundaries of brand-building, customer experience, and change leadership.
Garis was a leader of global innovation & marketing for P&G FutureWorks—an innovation epicenter responsible for accelerating discontinuous growth by incubating, launching, and scaling a billion-dollar portfolio of breakthrough ventures worldwide. This includes P&G's momentous shift into services with the Mr. Clean Car Wash and Tide Dry Cleaners. Garis also launched the P&G FutureWorks Emerging Markets division in Singapore, deploying new business models & technologies across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Garis brings the same no-holds-barred approach to his keynotes that helped him blaze trails in the world's largest companies and entrepreneurial startups. His deep insights and charismatic persona keep audiences captivated while helping organizations embark on the next frontier of innovation—whether he's break-dancing on stage or blowing wide open the rise of the "experience revolution" with anecdotes and visuals. With a particular focus on how brands can enrich lives, Garis offers examples of brands that are getting it right by "revolting against routine," and creating memorable experiences to drive engagement among Millennial consumers and employees.
Garis earned the title of "Indiana Jones of Marketing" when he embarked on a global expedition to over 50 countries across six continents to uncover the secret to building life-changing brands. As other testaments to his non-traditional approach to innovation, Garis has been known to begin his meetings with opera singers, convert an elevator into his office, bucket bathe in rural India, eat blindfolded, travel through the office by Segway, ride an 1,800-pound bull in a rodeo, and craft other experiments that keep HR awake at night.
Beyond his changemaker leadership roles in corporate innovation and billion-dollar brands, Garis now helps other organizations accelerate their innovation capabilities and company culture as a Chief Troublemaker-in-Residence. He leverages lessons from the world's most innovative brands (Google, Zappos, Southwest Airlines, Airbnb, etc.), best practices in change leadership, as well as insight into the Millennial-led social movement LifeProfit, which is now fueling an experiential brand revolution across multinationals and entrepreneurial startups.
TESTIMONIALS (CLIENT):
- "Finally, something different and transformative." - American Express
- "Drop-the-mic performance. Absolutely perfect. Everything I could have wished for: brilliant content and captivating delivery. I'm so happy, I'm literally speechless." - Essendant
- "The best keynote presenter I've seen in 17 years of doing this." - BFTP
- "Backstage I heard people asking the scariest question for any event organizer, "Who hired this speaker?" And I grinned from ear to ear when someone responded, "Whoever it was should get a raise, because Dustin is phenomenal!"" - NATPE
- "Makes all the difference to hear from a true pioneer, not just an academic." - Wyndham
- "I never before received so many positive comments for a keynote." - Pfizer
TESTIMONIALS (AUDIENCE):
- "After Dustin's keynote, I didn't know who to call first, my boss or my wife. Just so much to think about for my business and also my life." - Unilever
- "I had tears in my eyes and a grin on my face... at a business conference!" - NBC Universal
- "Wow! The most exciting, relevant and inspirational keynote I've experienced!" - Yahoo!
- "He's the lovechild of Deepak Chopra and Richard Branson." - Southwest Airlines
- "That wasn't a keynote... that was an experience!" - Google
- "Not only does my company need this, the entire market needs this. Actually, the world needs to hear this message." - Yum! Brands
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"The most engaging and mind-blowing keynote!" - AMA
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Leads transformational change across nearly all industries and regions of the globe.
-
"The Indiana Jones of Marketing" and pioneer for billion-dollar brands at P&G, Ericsson, AMEX, The Coca-Cola Company, and other Fortune 500s and entrepreneurial ventures.
Dustin Garis is a world-renowned brand innovator, consistently voted "the #1 event speaker." Throughout his disruptive career at some of the world's most breakthrough companies, such as The Coca-Cola Company, Procter & Gamble, and Ericsson, Garis went by the title of "Chief Troublemaker" for his ability to push the boundaries of brand-building, customer experience, and change leadership.
Garis was a leader of global innovation & marketing for P&G FutureWorks—an innovation epicenter responsible for accelerating discontinuous growth by incubating, launching, and scaling a billion-dollar portfolio of breakthrough ventures worldwide. This includes P&G's momentous shift into services with the Mr. Clean Car Wash and Tide Dry Cleaners. Garis also launched the P&G FutureWorks Emerging Markets division in Singapore, deploying new business models & technologies across Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
Garis brings the same no-holds-barred approach to his keynotes that helped him blaze trails in the world's largest companies and entrepreneurial startups. His deep insights and charismatic persona keep audiences captivated while helping organizations embark on the next frontier of innovation—whether he's break-dancing on stage or blowing wide open the rise of the "experience revolution" with anecdotes and visuals. With a particular focus on how brands can enrich lives, Garis offers examples of brands that are getting it right by "revolting against routine," and creating memorable experiences to drive engagement among Millennial consumers and employees.
Garis earned the title of "Indiana Jones of Marketing" when he embarked on a global expedition to over 50 countries across six continents to uncover the secret to building life-changing brands. As other testaments to his non-traditional approach to innovation, Garis has been known to begin his meetings with opera singers, convert an elevator into his office, bucket bathe in rural India, eat blindfolded, travel through the office by Segway, ride an 1,800-pound bull in a rodeo, and craft other experiments that keep HR awake at night.
Beyond his changemaker leadership roles in corporate innovation and billion-dollar brands, Garis now helps other organizations accelerate their innovation capabilities and company culture as a Chief Troublemaker-in-Residence. He leverages lessons from the world's most innovative brands (Google, Zappos, Southwest Airlines, Airbnb, etc.), best practices in change leadership, as well as insight into the Millennial-led social movement LifeProfit, which is now fueling an experiential brand revolution across multinationals and entrepreneurial startups.
TESTIMONIALS (CLIENT):
- "Finally, something different and transformative." - American Express
- "Drop-the-mic performance. Absolutely perfect. Everything I could have wished for: brilliant content and captivating delivery. I'm so happy, I'm literally speechless." - Essendant
- "The best keynote presenter I've seen in 17 years of doing this." - BFTP
- "Backstage I heard people asking the scariest question for any event organizer, "Who hired this speaker?" And I grinned from ear to ear when someone responded, "Whoever it was should get a raise, because Dustin is phenomenal!"" - NATPE
- "Makes all the difference to hear from a true pioneer, not just an academic." - Wyndham
- "I never before received so many positive comments for a keynote." - Pfizer
TESTIMONIALS (AUDIENCE):
- "After Dustin's keynote, I didn't know who to call first, my boss or my wife. Just so much to think about for my business and also my life." - Unilever
- "I had tears in my eyes and a grin on my face... at a business conference!" - NBC Universal
- "Wow! The most exciting, relevant and inspirational keynote I've experienced!" - Yahoo!
- "He's the lovechild of Deepak Chopra and Richard Branson." - Southwest Airlines
- "That wasn't a keynote... that was an experience!" - Google
- "Not only does my company need this, the entire market needs this. Actually, the world needs to hear this message." - Yum! Brands
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