Why Professional Troublemakers Are Good For Business: Embracing Disruption and Innovation
A Professional Troublemaker is someone who is committed to elevating the rooms they’re in, by disrupting for the greater good of them and everyone else. They should be celebrated. In this talk, Luvvie explores the important role that troublemakers and dissent play in driving innovation and progress within organizations.
Often viewed as a nuisance or hindrance to productivity, troublemakers have the unique ability to challenge the status quo and bring fresh perspectives to problem-solving. By embracing their ideas and fostering a culture of curiosity and thoughtful challenge, companies can tap into the fullness of their workforce, which leans toward bold thinking.
Great for: inspiring leaders and employees at all levels to think boldly for the betterment of their business.
Creating Authentic Brand Stories That Foster Community
In a world where companies are competing for our ever-devolving attention and ever-decreasing market share, the strongest brands with the best stories win. In this talk, Luvvie will explore the importance of storytelling in building a bold, lasting, and successful brand or company imprint. It will delve into the power of authenticity in shaping brand narrative and connecting with audiences.
How do you create content that organically aligns with your organization’s mission and values, effectively communicating those stories through various channels? The keynote will also cover strategies for overcoming common challenges that arise when creating brand stories, such as dealing with internal resistance and navigating the ever-evolving digital landscape.
Attendees will walk away with a deeper understanding of the role of storytelling in building a strong, relatable brand. They will leave with practical tools to help them create authentic brand stories that create not just consumers, but evangelists.
Great for: Businesses of all sizes looking to level up on their marketing, storytelling and brand representation.
Speaking Truth To Power For Good
Speaking the truth is one of the biggest forms of courage and one of the greatest ways to make an impact in our lives. This powerful keynote delves into the importance of using your voice and platform to create change in whatever room you’re in. In it, Luvvie explores the ways in which individuals and organizations can use their influence to challenge the status quo and drive progress.
This talk covers topics like understanding the role of privilege, the resistance of our cultural programming, and how to push past our fears to create and amplify important messages. Attendees will leave the keynote with a deeper understanding of the power of their own voice and the impact it can have on shaping the world around them.
Great for: anyone looking to make a difference in their personal or professional life, and for organizations looking to build a socially responsible brand.
Discover Your Troublemaker: Maximize Your Potential to Drive Meaningful Change
In this engaging keynote, Luvvie Ajayi Jones explores the Four Types of Professional Troublemakers, offering a fresh perspective on leadership and teamwork to foster innovation. By understanding that thoughtful disruption looks different for everyone and recognizing the unique strengths of Truth Tellers, Mind Molders, Heart Helpers, and Bridge Builders, leaders and teams can create a more balanced and effective work environment. This talk provides practical insights into how wielding our individual superpowers allows for better communication, enhanced collaboration, and personal growth, ultimately benefiting organizations.
Luvvie Ajayi Jones is an internationally recognized speaker whose thought leadership on culture, authenticity, and disruption enables transformative action. A dynamic speaker, she has captivated audiences around the world with her wit, warmth, and powerful storytelling. Her superpower: using humor as a tool to engage audiences and speak directly to the hearts of others. When she walks away, people take action. Her talks have been consistently praised for their ability to spark conversations, provoke thought, and leave audiences feeling empowered.
She has spoken at some of the most innovative brands, such as Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Spotify, Nike, Bank of America, Deloitte, and American Express. She’s been a featured speaker at noted conferences such as TEDWomen, Cannes Lions, SXSW, Leadercast, 3% Conference, and MAKERS Conference.
Her renowned TED talk “Get Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable” has over nine million views and counting, has been transcribed into 23 languages, and has placed her in the Top 1% of TED Talks of all time.
More about Luvvie Ajayi Jones
Off stage, she’s pouring her words into New York Times bestselling books. She’s written four so far: I’m Judging You: The Do-Better Manual, Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, and Rising Troublemaker: A Fear-Fighter Manual for Teens. Her fourth book and first kids’ book, Little Troublemaker Makes a Mess, was published in May 2023, debuting at #5 on The New York Times bestsellers list.
She has contributed to several anthologies (You Are Your Best Thing, Hungry Hearts, Black Girls Rock, How We Heal) and has written for the New York Times, ELLE and Essence. In addition, her work has been featured in outlets such as NPR, Forbes, Inc, Fortune, Fast Company, The Chicago Tribune and more. A 19-year blogging veteran, Luvvie writes on AwesomelyLuvvie.com, covering all things culture with a critical yet humorous lens.
Luvvie is the host of a podcast of the same name as her book, Professional Troublemaker, where you can listen to her have candid conversations with changemakers who have taken action, caused good trouble and led courageous lives driven by conviction, humor and honesty. Guests like Bozoma Saint John, Jenifer Lewis, Glennon Doyle, Cynthia Erivo, Donna Brazile, Yvette Noel Schure, Sarah Jakes Roberts, Thasunda Brown Duckett, Tarana Burke, Elsa Majimbo, Elaine Welteroth and more. Started in February 2018, the podcast has over 3 million downloads, was chosen as “New & Noteworthy” by Apple Podcasts and featured in their “BOLD WOMEN” collection. It was chosen as a “featured podcast” by Spotify, and NPR’s Michel Martin chose it as a “Must Listen.”
Empowering Black businesses, authors, and voices globally is a core mission for Luvvie. Using her expertise as a marketer and digital strategist, most recently, she created Black Business Luvv (#BlackBizLuvv) to fund and amplify Black businesses, which are often under-appreciated, under-mentored and underfunded. #BlackBizLuvv was a month-long campaign highlighting 31 companies, across multiple product categories (skincare, fashion, tech, jewelry, home décor, candles and more). In just 31 days, the #BlackBizLuvv campaign infused $500,000 into small, Black-owned businesses. In 2020, Luvvie was co-creator of #SharetheMicNow, a campaign that magnified the voices of brilliant Black women through the telling of their stories from the Instagram accounts of prominent white women. The campaign got over 20 billion impressions worldwide, and its impact earned it an honorable mention by Fast Company for “World Changing Ideas.” It also won the Content Marketing Institute’s 2020 B2C Marketer of the Year award. Most recently, she was featured in the Hulu original series, Black Twitter: A People's History.
As a 4-time NYT bestselling author, Luvvie wants to see more marginalized voices and stories on bookshelves and in bookstores everywhere. With her proven track record of creating and launching successful books, Luvvie founded The Book Academy (TBA), as a platform to help others do the same.
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