Innovation Architect, CEO of RE:Think Lab, Best-Selling Author
Carla Johnson Biography
It used to be that the status quo was the way to go. It kept your company running. And it kept you employed. But in a world that changes at the speed of a TikTok, standing still makes you a sitting duck. Volatility lurks around every corner. Startups have become rock stars. Founders are celebrities. Customers are fickle. Employees are leaving. Disruption is inevitable. But if anyone’s going to disrupt your industry, your company, or your team, shouldn’t it be you?
As the world’s leading Innovation Architect and the CEO of RE:Think Lab, Carla Johnson has been breaking the status quo all her life. In over 20 years of working with leaders, she’s learned that the safest bet is often the riskiest move. Through extensive research and authoring numerous bestselling books, Johnson has developed frameworks and processes that teach people how to redefine what innovation means in their company, and then equips teams to make innovation everybody’s business.
Johnson’s approach transforms organizations by fusing visionary creativity with pragmatic innovation strategies to inspire teams to think bigger and bolder so they can bust out of the status quo. The result is a company culture that becomes a playground of limitless potential while also experiencing unprecedented alignment and growth.
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Carla Johnson Speaking Topics
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The Muse and the Machine: Supercharging Human Creativity in the Age of AI
As AI becomes more powerful and more pervasive, leaders are stuck asking the wrong question: What can AI do instead of us? But the real magic lives in a bolder inquiry: What can we now imagine because of AI?
In this electrifying keynote, Carla Johnson reframes AI not as a threat to human relevance, but as a partner in our deepest creative potential. Drawing from her acclaimed TEDx talk and decades of work with innovation-driven organizations, she shows how the best ideas don’t come from handing our work over to AI. Instead, they come from clearly defining our partnership with AI and identifying the truly human part that only we can own.
This isn’t about using AI to automate the old. It’s about tapping into it to imagine the never-been-done. Through provocative stories, practical hands-on AI demonstrations, and a reawakened sense of possibility, Carla equips audiences to reclaim our creativity as a strategic advantage. And to see AI not as a replacement, but as a reverent reminder of what makes us beautifully human.
Audience Takeaways...
- Reframe AI as your team’s ultimate thought partner. One that amplifies curiosity instead of replacing it.
- Learn how leading organizations are unlocking breakthrough thinking by pairing AI tools with human intuition, imagination, and inquiry.
- Walk away with a roadmap for cultivating a culture of creative confidence, where AI accelerates your team’s ability to dream, disrupt, and deliver.
Ideal For...
- Crafting a mindset shift on AI: from resistance to reverence, from fear to fuel.
- Readying teams to innovate beyond automation and using AI to spark bold, original thinking.
- Seeing how to balance the power of tech with the irreplaceable magic of human thought.
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Applied Curiosity: The Secret Weapon for Teams to Outthink the Future
The world around us is moving faster than ever before. While efficiency, productivity, and AI are the de rigueur of the day, teams are struggling to keep pace with change. They’re optimizing what already exists instead of discovering what’s possible.
What if curiosity isn’t a distraction from performance but a catalyst for it? What if the most powerful driver of growth, innovation, and momentum isn’t another process, tool, or technology but a way of thinking that’s already hiding in plain sight?
Organizations that thrive in uncertainty don’t just execute better, they question deeper, observe differently, and explore possibilities others miss. In this fast-paced keynote, Carla Johnson teaches audiences how curiosity works and how to apply it to drive smarter decisions, faster innovation, stronger collaboration, and deeper human connection. The result is powerful momentum that unlocks new ideas, elevates performance, strengthens trust, and reignites excitement about the future.
Audience Takeaways...
- Discover the structure for what makes a question ‘curious’ and how to apply it.
- Learn the three ways of thinking that makes better results come faster.
- Ignite a movement that values questioning, experimentation, and collaboration to elevate outcomes everywhere.
Ideal for...
- Cracking the curiosity code and learning how to build your team’s curiosity muscles from the ground up.
- Creating an ecosystem that ensures that the way we work is inspired, educated, collaborative, psychologically safe, and grounded in care and intention.
- Building a shortcut to smarter innovation, deeper trust, and monumental growth. Teams that can instantly deploy curiosity will be the ones that thrive in the future of work.
Carla Johnson Videos
Applied Curiosity Keynote Sizzle Reel
Curious people are more likely to challenge the status quo, explore new ideas, and develop innovative solutions to business problems. In fact,...
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Carla Johnson is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Muse and the Machine: Supercharging Human Creativity in the Age of AI, Applied Curiosity: The Secret Weapon for Teams to Outthink the Future and Rethink Innovation: Ignite an idea-driven culture that sparks opportunities, tackles problems and inspires change. The estimated speaking fee range to book Carla Johnson for your event is $20,000 - $30,000. Carla Johnson generally travels from Parker, CO, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Zack Kass, Eric Boles, Daymond John, Jelly Roll and Rocky Bleier. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Carla Johnson for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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