Customized Speaking
What differentiates Cameron as a speaker, thinker, synthesizer, and creator are the strengths (i) that make up his range.
Insane Curiosity
Event organizers say Cameron can talk about almost anything, and what he doesn’t
know well enough to talk about yet he can learn. He was the sort of kid who’d read
over 300 young-adult books in three weeks for a contest. In startups and legal circles
he’s known for his “insane productivity”.
Cameron is able to draw from experience ranging across industries and professions,
from law, government, and management to entrepreneurship, art, and media, through
history and psychology and literature and religious and mythical traditions. So he can
quickly generate new speeches tailored to almost any audience. Sort of like GenAI,
but with heart, humor, and a distinctive voice. Reach out to see what he can deliver
for you.
Recent speeches include these thematic variations
Here are just a few of the other bricks of ideas Cameron regularly uses
in his speaking and writing:
- Meaning, purpose, passion
- Storytelling, argument and persuasion, presentation
- Sales psychology, making a case, copywriting
- Creativity, innovation, talent
- Productivity, Flow, teams
- Positive psychology, performance psychology, psychological safety
- Strengths, talents, drive: what matters at work.
- Interviewing for story
- Democracy, voting rights, free speech, lawfare
- Technology, tech companies
- Fundraising
- World literature, writing, mythology’s Hero’s Journey (now in most movies)
- Diversity of thought and experience
- Cancer, hospice, death and dying
- Books, movies, popular culture
Speaking Topics
The Legacy Mindset
The Power of Reflecting on Mortality to Turn Fear of Failure Into the Courage
to Create and Connect
Outcomes
- Your audience will walk away inspired to develop the courage to create, to innovate, to experiment, to reach out and connect, to risk failure and rejection - and to boost their self-expression, creative output, engagement, retention, and well-being.
- Proven effective for: any gathering seeking meaning and inspiration conference keynotes, senior executive meetings, strategy kick-offs, client meetings, workshops
GenAI Law, Ethics, Policy
Stay Human. Protect Creativity and Cognition. Preserve Rights.
Outcomes
- What GenAI can and can’t be expected to do.
- How workers must adjust to protect their brains, their jobs, and your organization’s reputation.
- How workers’ use of GenAI affects your intellectual property rights. Did you know your org only has copyrights in the edits your workers make, but owns nothing of GenAI’s first drafts?
- Risks of GenAI: law, ethics, costs.
- Proven effective for: leadership teams, boards of directors, content creation teams, HR leaders
A Contrarian Take on Talent
Outcomes
- How to use Story to fix what’s wrong in hiring (like our keyword based, “skills and prior experience” thinking) (see the talk)
- Why only their Story can reveal team members’ and job applicants’ unique genius
- Understanding how to optimize workers’ strengths, sense of meaning, and feelings of mastery to get them into the super productive Flow state
- Learn to build teams diverse in thought and experience for the proven best outcomes
- Proven effective for: team leaders, HR leaders, hiring managers, all interviewers
Speaking Engagements
Cameron Powell is a dynamic speaker who inspires audiences with his insights on leadership and talent, storytelling, meaning-making and legacy, technology and startups, and Generative AI law, policy, uses, and abuses. His engaging storytelling and deep expertise leave a lasting impact.
Talent, Flow, Teams
Drawing on experience across industries and leading and mentoring technology startups, Cameron shares key strategies for effective leadership, innovation, and protection of legal rights.
From one-on-one to Industry Conferences
Cameron speaks on podcasts and at major business conferences, tech summits and startup demo days, and networking events, adding humor, credibility, and insight to any event.