Guy Kawasaki
PROFILE
One of the technology world’s foremost brand evangelists, Guy Kawasaki popularized the role in the 1980s at Apple’s MacIntosh Division, returning as chief evangelist of Apple in the mid-1990s. He is currently chief evangelist of Canva, an AI-powered online graphic design platform with more than 170 million users in 190 countries and $1.7 B in revenue. Used by more than 90% of the Fortune 500, Canva was named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023 and to TIME’s TIME100 Most Influential Companies List for 2023.
During his four-decade career, Guy has also worked with Google, Mercedes-Benz, and Wikipedia and is the bestselling author of 16 books on start-ups, entrepreneurship, social media, brand evangelism, innovation and most recently, changing the world by living a remarkable life.
He is the creator/host of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast and co-author of the companion book, Think Remarkable: 9 Paths to Transform Your Life and Make a Difference (2024), which has been called a “beautifully written, clear roadmap for building, optimizing, and sustaining personal and professional growth.”
A global thought leader and influencer at the intersection of technology, marketing, social media, innovation, and empowering human potential to change the world, Guy Kawasaki has made his mark at some of the world’s top tech companies, been a founder at four successful tech startups, and a venture capitalist or advisor to many more.
Guy Kawasaki’s current mission is perhaps his greatest ever: to make people remarkable. As host/creator and master interviewer of Guy Kawasaki’s Remarkable People podcast, he has held one-of-a-kind conversations with a wide-ranging array of extraordinary people, including Jane Goodall, Margaret Atwood, Steve Wozniak, Marc Benioff, Seth Godin, Martha Stewart, Arianna Huffington, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Tiffani Bova, and others.
Guy’s books have appeared on both the New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller list and are textbooks for the finest academic institutions in the world. Titles include The Art of the Start, The Art of the Start 2.0, Enchantment, The Art of Social Media, Rules for Revolutionaries, Selling the Dream, Wise Guy, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy, and The Macintosh Way.
Guy’s other notable roles include being a brand ambassador for Mercedes-Benz (“It is a tough job, but somebody has to do it.”) and on the board of trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikipedia and other properties). He currently serves as an executive fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business, and as a part-time adjunct professor at UNSW (University of New South Wales), Australia’s global university. Kawasaki has a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UCLA, and an honorary doctorate from Babson College.
SPEAKING TOPICS
How to be a Remarkable (You fill in the blank)
The go-to-guy for customized speeches, Guy Kawasaki 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.
The Art of Enchantment
The speech explains how organizations and individuals can change people’s hearts, minds, and actions. Enchantment was a New York Times bestseller.
