Tuesday Keynote

Tucker Bryant

Poet & Innovation Strategist

The Poet’s Keys: A Guide to Unlocking Innovation

The world is seemingly one disruption away from shaking the very foundations of our successes to their bones. After spending a decade alongside world-class innovators at institutions like Stanford and Google, Tucker Bryant has discovered an unexpected perspective professionals can adopt to confront the future with confidence: the outlook of a poet. Bryant shares powerful tools poets have relied on for millennia to escape their comfort zones and innovate through language - tools that allow treasury and finance professionals to achieve enhanced creativity, collaboration, and competitive advantage in their work.

Bio

Tucker Bryant is an entrepreneur, innovation strategist, and nationally renowned poet. After nurturing his craft at Stanford University, he went on to become a lead Product Marketing Manager at Google where he discovered the potential of the creative tools poets have relied on for millennia to drive innovative leadership in the corporate world. After a decade in Silicon Valley, Tucker left Google to challenge leaders to unlock creativity, collaboration and competitive advantage using The Poet’s Keys™. Bryant’s experience has driven him to pursue an answer to one question: How can we tear down the comfort zones that keep businesses from writing their best poetry? Bryant’s performances, which have garnered millions of views online, have featured at TEDx, The New York Times, and dozens of other organizations across the globe.

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