James Taylor

James Taylor

• Award-winning entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker
• Expert in unlocking creativity, increasing production, and innovation acceleration
• An ‘ethical futurist’: meaning focusing on business improvements in the ‘here and now, not the future’
• Advisor and business coach who helps companies and entrepreneurs launch innovative products and services
• Host of some of the world’s largest online summits

Starting out as a jazz musician, James Taylor recorded several best-selling jazz albums and toured the world. This period saw him perform with  artists such as pop singer Mick Hucknall, the Spice Girls’ Mel C, and French-Italian jazz violinist Stephane Grappelli.

But business stayed his passion, and for over more than twenty years, James Taylor has one aim in life: to help unlock the creative potential in one billion people. His career in this regard has seen him advising CEOs, entrepreneurs, governments, and even leaders from Silicon Valley to Singapore on how to build innovative organisations, unlock creative potential, and increase productivity. Amongst his many clients, he includes the likes of various industry associations, Fortune Global 500 companies, and government policymakers. He was also the star of a BBC documentary showcasing his life and work.

A creativity expert par excellence, James Taylor, through his writing, podcast show, and YouTube series has taught hundreds of people in over 120 countries about the art of science and creativity. He has also hosted multiple global summits and interviewed more than 750 of the world’s leading creative minds. His forthcoming book focusing on the creative process is titled SuperCreativity: Augmenting Human Creativity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence”.

As an international keynote speaker and recognised inspiration speaker, he has addressed conferences across the globe, including North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and presented to the likes of such companies as Apple, IBM, TATA, Sony, Cisco, and many others.

James Taylor has also played host to many events, hosting some of the world’s largest online summits. Amongst these he includes the International Authors Summit, the creative Life Summit, and Event Professionals summit.

Himself an entrepreneur, James Taylor started his own business at the age of seventeen. He went on to launch, build, and sell various businesses in the entertainment, publishing, technology, and education industries in Europe and the USA. Amongst his many awards, he includes the ONTRApreneur of the Year Award from U.S. business and marketing automation leaders ONTRAPORT, and S.D. Southern Prize from ATCO, a Canadian energy services company.

With regards to education, James Taylor holds an M.B.A. and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts.

James Taylor – Speaker

As a speaker, James Taylor takes his audience on a journey where they discover backstage secrets known to the world’s most creative individuals and innovative organisations. He describes himself as an ‘ethical futurist,’ not a ‘futurist’ as his story and messages resonate immediately with business performance here and now and not in the future.

He blends his inspiring stories with cutting-edge research and actionable takeaways to show how any individual or organization can increase their productivity and innovation by augmenting human creativity with artificial intelligence.

Speaking Topics

• SUPERCREATIVITY™: Augmenting Human Creativity In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence – Business is changing at the speed of light. Today exponential technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are creating new disruptive business models almost overnight. In this new world, one where McKinsey & Co predicts that 45 percent of jobs will be automated in the next 20 years, there is one distinctly human competitive advantage you and your people must leverage – your creativity. In this tailored, entertaining, and highly visual one-of-a-kind keynote, James Taylor takes the audience on a journey to discover the backstage secrets of the world’s most creative individuals and innovative organizations.
• SUPERPRODUCTIVITY™: Accelerating Growth During The Great Reset – As we recover from a global pandemic, too many countries and companies remain locked in a cycle of low or flat productivity growth. The old methods for increasing productivity just don’t work in our hyper-connected world. In SuperProductivity™, award-winning creativity and innovation keynote speaker James Taylor shares how any organisation can improve productivity by 20-25% through maximising collaboration.  “Only when our people are aligned and connected around a shared vision and mission can they achieve higher levels of productivity and unlock their full creative potential.”
• Unlock Your Creative Potential – James Taylor’s immersive in-person or virtual workshops will help your team unlock creative potential, accelerate innovation, increase productivity, and adapt to change.
• Metaverse. Helping audiences to understand the opportunities for their industry and to share powerful stories and examples of how different industries are approaching the Metaverse.
  The keynote is focused on the what and why, including an explanation of the different technologies that underpin the Metaverse (e.g. NFTs, AV/VR, blockchain).