MEDIA & ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY SPEAKER
FRONT END OF INNOVATION
The treadmill never stops, the audience's attention is harder to win every year, and AI is rewriting how stories get told. Todd Henry's keynotes help media and entertainment teams keep producing brilliant, original work—on deadline, quarter after quarter—without grinding their best teams into the ground.
In media, the demand to create on command is relentless. A great keynote can light up the room, but what matters is what sticks when your producers, writers, editors, and creative leads are back under deadline on Monday. Todd’s talks pair genuine inspiration with practical methods teams use immediately to protect their creativity and their energy.
KEYNOTE OR WORKSHOP
Learn how to leverage AI without losing what makes you irreplaceable.
Discover the five-part framework for amplifying your work while preserving your drive, motivation, and creative intuition.
KEYNOTE OR WORKSHOP
Learn five practices to be brilliant at a moment's notice, maintain focus, and stay energized.
Master creativity, manage energy, find inspiration, and avoid burnout to stay sharp.
KEYNOTE
Identify and overcome seven "deadly sins" that kill creativity to unleash your best work daily.
Challenge assumptions, rediscover passion, and ignite drive to deliver brilliant solutions to complex problems.
KEYNOTE OR WORKSHOP
Overcome the unique challenges of managing talented teams by becoming the leader creative people need.
Master effective leadership, protect team focus, and achieve better brainstorming and collaboration.
KEYNOTE
Cultivate a culture of bravery to confront uncertainty, achieve greatness, and inspire others.
Practice brave decision-making and decisive action to bring out the best in creative teams.
Each topic can be delivered in keynote or workshop format.
AI can now generate scripts, storyboards, voices, and edits in seconds. For media organizations the promise is intoxicating and the threat is existential: when the machine does the synthesizing and the storytelling, what’s left that’s authentically yours? Todd’s VERVE framework helps creative teams use AI to amplify their output while fiercely protecting the taste, voice, and human judgment that audiences actually connect with.
Key takeaways: the line between support work to automate and soul work to protect; how AI erodes craft if you let it; and five principles for staying irreplaceable.
Showrunners, creative directors, and studio leaders face a hard truth: leading brilliant, opinionated creative people requires a completely different playbook than managing other teams. Based on Herding Tigers, this keynote equips leaders to protect their team’s focus, balance creative freedom with delivery, and build a studio culture where talent thrives instead of flames out.
Based on Todd’s best-selling book, Herding Tigers.
The create-on-demand world of media production is built to burn people out. The constant pressure to deliver—new content, new formats, new platforms—leaves even your most talented creators uninspired and depleted. Based on The Accidental Creative, this keynote delivers a proven framework of five creative rhythms that defeat the “assassins” of focus and let your people stay brilliant shoot after shoot, cut after cut, release after release.
Key takeaways:
Based on Todd’s best-selling book, The Accidental Creative.
Innovation requires betting on directions before the data is conclusive—killing a beloved feature, sunsetting a product, committing to a hard architectural rewrite. Based on The Brave Habit, this keynote shows how leaders and teams build the daily habit of decisive, courageous action that drives real innovation instead of consensus-driven mediocrity.
Based on Todd’s latest book, The Brave Habit.
Even the most talented writers and producers get stuck—working hard, hitting plateaus, losing the spark. Based on Die Empty, this keynote names the seven “deadly sins” that quietly kill creative output and shows your team how to break the patterns, challenge stale assumptions, and rediscover the passion that drew them to this work in the first place.
Based on Todd’s best-selling book, Die Empty.
Todd has spent two decades inside the creative world—he hosts the Daily Creative podcast (20M+ downloads) and has worked with the kinds of brand and content teams who live and die by their next idea. He gets the unique pressures of creative production and tailors every talk to your slate, your teams, and your audience.
Why Great Leaders Aim For Influence, Not Control
We Are Unmoored. It’s Time To Re-Tether.
Schedule Time Blocks For “Deep Work”
Good Decisions With Bad Outcomes
Talent Gets You In The Game, But Your Practices Keep…
How To Be a Super – Communicator
Alone With Your Thoughts
Slow and Steady Does NOT Win The Race
Playing Different Games at the Same Table
How To Be “Lucky By Design”