Keynotes, Lectures, and Seminars

Creating Innovation at Every Turn

Marshall Barnes is an experienced speaker and lecturer who has been a featured or sole speaker at events, conferences, and conventions around the United States and Canada from 1983 to the present on a variety of subjects, from the arts and education to the sciences and business. Always, his presentations have been on or beyond the leading edge.

Marshall's Innovation Stories

This website has a story, of the most innovative person in the world and what he can do for you and your organization. This site is an opportunity to get a full background on who is, what he does, and he has to offer in specific detail and not trendy buzz words and catch phrases.

If you’re a business, you can get a sense and see how his attitude and approaches to problems is light years beyond what you've heard from others. That's because he's been rated by PwC Strategy& Inc. - the strategy consulting business unit of PricewaterhouseCoopers. and their test, CEO Time Machine as being like someone from the year 2040 nearly 20 years ahead of us now but 26 years ahead of 2014 when the test was taken! He's proven he was smarter than Stephen Hawking when he was alive when it came to the nature of time and he's now outdoing Elon Musk when it comes to futurism and Humanity, Marshall is, as Brian Zurcher, of OSU's WakeUp StartUp, said in 2013 - "the smartest man in the room at any one time".

So, no matter how you started on your business and professional journey, what your core values are, your commitment to customers, or how you stand out from the competition, you will be able to find inspiration, guidance and unattainable knowledge.

Keynotes

Don't Innovate like Proctor and Gamble

Proctor and Gamble is the huge, multinational corporation managing and marketing dozens of brands and products, from soap to floor wax and known for their creative ability to market their innovations. But there is a flaw to their approach and Marshall the Innovation Wizard Star knows exactly what it is and how you can avoid it - without having to kill any children first, like they did.

Disrupting Elon Musk was easy...Hawking was hard

Elon Musk, the famous immigrant from South Africa with Tesla Motor Cars, the Boring Company and SpaceX is known as the most innovative man in the world preparing Humanity for an incredible future in space and AI, but is he really? In fact, Marshall has challenged Musk on these very issues and WON but it was actually only after Marshall did the same to Stephen Hawking which was much more difficult. Hear how Marshall did both and his winning strategy.

Analyzing Innovation Methods

How to analyze the claims of both businesses and hypsters to see what they are offering in terms of training and work performance. In the world of buzz words and catch-phrases, it's easy to be misled into thinking that you're getting more than is ever intended or possible from a claim.

Competitive Creativity and Disruption

I had my first business conflict challenge at the age of 23. Fortunately, I had read about wars and battles and how to win them all my life up to that point and the new Star Wars movie was coming. I rallied my team, ready to prove these rebels were ready to strike back.

Principles of Practical Innovation

People will debate what innovation is and not and how the best way to do it, for days on end. It's why there's an entire industry made up of people running all over the world "yapping" about it as I like to say. But how many of them have actually DONE IT, when it MATTERED. If they didn't do it or do it right, they weren't going to eat THAT MONTH? This is the presentation that takes you inside the thinking that has actually done it and done it time after time after time.

Creativity Methods and Means

There are as many arguments and theories about creativity and where it comes from, if not more, as there are about innovation. Marshall Barnes KNOWS where it comes from, how to get it, amp it up and always have it ready when you need it. That means no more writers block and less time wasted on brainstorming sessions. And remember. In business, time IS money...