Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is Chief Evangelist at Canva and one of Silicon Valley’s most enduring voices on innovation, marketing, and entrepreneurship. He popularized the role of brand evangelist in the 1980s at Apple’s Macintosh division and later returned as Apple’s chief evangelist in the 1990s.

Four Decades of Remarkable Work

Over a career spanning Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz, and the Wikimedia Foundation, Kawasaki has become the bestselling author of 16 books on startups, branding, social media, and living a more remarkable life. His latest, Think Remarkable, synthesizes lessons from more than 200 interviews on his popular Remarkable People podcast with guests including Jane Goodall and Steve Wozniak.

Making People and Brands Unforgettable

Kawasaki draws on his experience scaling Canva into a 1.7 billion dollar platform used by more than 90 percent of the Fortune 500 to deliver tactical, practical strategies on innovation, branding, and entrepreneurship. His talks are consistently ranked among the most engaging by audiences at Apple, Nike, Google, and Gartner, and he holds an executive fellowship at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.

For organizations seeking a Silicon Valley icon who can turn decades of hard-won experience into game-changing, immediately usable ideas, Guy Kawasaki delivers a keynote that empowers audiences to think and act more remarkably.

What does Guy Kawasaki speak about?

Guy Kawasaki speaks on innovation, entrepreneurship, branding, and social media, drawing on more than four decades at Apple, Google, Mercedes-Benz, and Canva to help audiences build ideas and brands that stick.

What makes Guy Kawasaki a sought-after keynote speaker?

As Canva’s Chief Evangelist and the bestselling author of 16 books, Kawasaki blends Silicon Valley credibility with a rare gift for making complex topics simple, having delivered talks for audiences at Apple, Google, Nike, and Gartner.

Who books Guy Kawasaki?

Meeting planners book Guy Kawasaki for keynotes and customized fireside chats where organizations want practical, tactical guidance on innovation, branding, or building a growth mindset across their teams.

How to be a Remarkable (You fill in the blank)

Our go-to-guy for customized speeches released his 16th book in March 2024. It’s called Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference. It synthesizes more than 200 interviews with extraordinary people such as Steve Wozniak, Julia Cameron, Bob Cialdini, Angela Duckworth and his four decades working for organizations such as Apple, Canva, Google, and Mercedes-Benz.

The thing that makes his latest work ideal for you is that he can tailor his speech for almost any audience. For example, How to Be a Remarkable Leader, Salesperson, Innovator, Educator, Designer….you get the idea. Just fill in the blank, and Guy will tailor the speech to your audience and help your attendees make a difference and be remarkable. Basically, Guy will walk your audience through the three stages of becoming remarkable: Growth, Grit, and Grace using real world examples from his career and his hundreds of guests.

Your Remarkable Executive – Flipping the Table with Guy Kawasaki

Guy Kawasaki is on a mission to make you remarkable. Like he does in his wildly popular Remarkable People podcast, Guy will do the interviewing, but this time it’s with the executive/leader of your organization. And like only Guy can, he will bring out their remarkableness.

For this highly interactive and customized session, Guy conducts research prior to the session, meets with the executive and other stakeholders and then weaves a unique and personalized experience for the audience and company.

The Art of Remarkable Innovation

The Art of Innovation explains how to create innovative services and products using tactical and practical techniques. Guy uses examples from ice making to telephony to digital photography to expose the truths of innovation. Key principles include: jumping to the next curve, breaking down the barriers, and thinking digitally and acting analogically.

The Art of the Start

The speech about how to create a new company. It reflects the knowledge Guy has gained from Apple, starting multiple companies, working as a venture capitalist, and advising dozens of companies. His book by the same name is the de facto standard for books about entrepreneurship.