John K. Coyle

John K. Coyle Speaking Topics

• The “TIME MASTER.” The World’s Leading Expert in the Neuroscience and Psychology of Time Perception: Learn How to Slow, Stop and Reverse the Acceleration of Time and Experience the Endless Summers of Youth Again

  A 5X TEDx speaker, innovation professor, best-selling author, Emmy award winner, Olympic silver medalist, Stanford and Northwestern (Kellogg MBA) grad, and Fortune 500 Executive – John K. Coyle’s success as an international keynote speaker is in some ways despite these accolades. In a sea of sameness with a seemingly infinite number of elite performers, coaches, and executives repeating the same adages about perseverance, leadership, or “time management,” John is the only person in the world speaking about time mastery.

  What is time mastery? Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do we pretend that it is? Time speeds up, slows down, and it stops. The ancient Greeks recognized the difference in experiential time, called kairos, and chronological time, or chronos. When you value your time based on the memories created by your experiences, the value of an increment of time is not related to its duration. John explains the mechanics of how the brain “constructs” time out of memories, and he uses his Design Thinking expertise to show you how to create experiences – for yourself, family and loved ones • to maximize memory creation and recall. Designing your life this way allows you to slow down time so that summers “last forever” and life can seem nearly infinite. That is what time mastery is… This is also relevant in business: for clients and customers – when you design interactions to become the first recall, you also become the first call.

  Rather than just sharing boring science and statistics, John illuminates his talks through the art of storytelling and experience design. John frames his talks and workshops through the lens of the Hero’s Journey (or “monomyth”) and when asked, co-creates truly unique time-bending experiences that illuminate the key drivers of memory creation and time-expansion. (These are not for the faint-of-heart!) For audiences lucky enough to experience them, these time-stopping “event horizon” events have a before and after and create indelible life-long memories.

  John's hair-raising tales from his adventures, athletics, businesses and travels • examined through the lens of neuroscience, technology and psychology have created raving fans all around the world (check out his 95+ LinkedIn recommendations here). John has been the lead keynote speaker in more than 20 countries for clients that include a who’s who of successful enterprises: Arab Bank, Allstate, American Airlines, Aon, BP, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, EO, Google, IDEO, JFK International Terminal, Kellogg, McDonalds, Optum, Pepsi, PwC, Stanford, Texas Health, YPO and the Dubai, Omani and Jordanian Royal Families.

• The Hero’s Journey: The Essential Role of Storytelling in Leadership and Business

  Is leadership bred or born? What if, for most, it is neither? What if a large subset of great leaders, influencers, and change-makers throughout human history shared only one highly learnable trait: the ability to tell powerful stories? Explore the Hero’s Journey or “monomyth" through the lens of business and leadership. In the process learn the 8-step process on how to architect the business and customer stories that lead to legendary outcomes.

How to Sell a Service: The Neuroscience of Time Perception and How to Make Moments that Matter

Neuroscientists have made dramatic progress in understanding memory creation. Recent advances show us that our ability to stand out, to be remembered, to be recalled, to win the sale is directly correlated to the kinds of memories generated within the brains of your partners, clients, or customers. What if you could design the kinds of interactions, experiences, and memories that would lead to being the last recall or “first call?”

Life 2.0 - Innovating The Human Experience

John takes his Design Thinking and innovation expertise, leveraged by dozens of Fortune 500 companies, and applies it to the human experience. Step by step, John applies creative destruction to our standard operating procedures related to strengths, resiliency and time, and reframes a new approach to innovate your life.

Leadership 2.0 - Innovation Mindsets and Why they Matter

From an empowering primer on leadership mindsets that are necessary to drive innovation, to more advanced topics such as: 1) Design Thinking overview and activation, 2) Ideation best practices and ideation session to solve a problem specific to your organization, 3) Innovation Antibodies (victim vs. creator), 4) Innovation Culture Kryptonite (knower mindset vs. learner mindset), 5) How (not) to create a culture of innovation, and more.

Time 2.0 - Move from Time Management to Time Mastery

Our days are filled with experiences and memories, some stored and retained and some not. What creates a memorable memory? What is the nature of the relationship between memory and time perception? How do we measure the true value of our time? This mind-bending talk delivers breakthrough ideas on how to rethink your relationship with time and design time-stopping experiences for yourself, your loved ones and your customers.