Founder & CEO of Marketoonist
Tom Fishburne Biography
Tom Fishburne started drawing cartoons on the backs of business cases as a Harvard Business School student.
From an emailed cartoon to coworkers in 2002, Tom’s Marketoonist series has grown by word of mouth to reach half a million readers a week. His cartoons have been featured by the Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, and The New York Times. They’ve appeared twice on billboard ads in Times Square and once helped win a Guinness World Record.
Tom is a frequent international keynote speaker on innovation, marketing and digital transformation, using cartoons, case studies, and his marketing career to tell the story visually. Tom spoke at the TED headquarters in New York on “The Power of Laughing at Ourselves“. He was Cartoonist-in-Residence and Lecturer for the Stanford GSB course on humor in business and is a repeat lecturer on humor at Harvard Business School.
In 2010, Tom expanded Marketoonist into a cartoon studio focused on content marketing, thought leadership, and culture change. They’ve developed custom marketoon campaigns for over 200 businesses, including Adobe, Kronos, Lenovo Software, Dell, IBM, Russell Reynolds, Pitney Bowes, Deloitte, and DBS Bank.
Tom is the author of “Your Ad Ignored Here: Cartoons from 15 Years of Marketing, Business, and Doodling in Meetings.” He also illustrated 3 business books with Deloitte: “Provoke” (Wall Street Journal Bestseller), “Detonate” (National Bestseller), and “Work Disrupted.”
Tom draws (literally and figuratively) from 20 years in the marketing trenches in the US and Europe. He was Interim Chief Marketing Officer at HotelTonight, Managing Director for International at Method Products, and worked in brand management for Nestle and General Mills. Tom developed web sites for interactive agency iXL and started his marketing career selling advertising for the first English-language magazine in Eastern Europe.
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Tom Fishburne Speaking Topics
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The Funny Side Of Marketing: Avoiding the Customer Journey to Nowhere
We now have the ability to deliver more consistent and creative customer experiences than ever before. So why does customer engagement so often fall flat? We’ve all felt the pain of customer engagement that doesn’t work — customer journeys that break, consumer data without insight, attempts at personalization that misfire. A sense of humor can help us probe those pain points and explore how to become better marketers.
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Thriving In The Awkward Adolescence Of AI And Technology
Technology changes exponentially; organizations change logarithmically. Most organizations haven’t kept pace with the potential brought by technology. From AI to data to digital transformation, technology initiatives are often adopted shallowly, missing their full potential. If we want to pursue technology transformation, we ultimately have to think about organizational transformation.
Tom Fishburne Videos
Thriving in the Awkward Adolescence of Digital Transformation
The Marketoonist talks about the mindset we have to have to fully take advantage of all exciting technology and he is showing this through cartoons.
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Tom Fishburne is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as The Funny Side Of Marketing: Avoiding the Customer Journey to Nowhere, Thriving In The Awkward Adolescence Of AI And Technology, Overcoming Idea Killers and Building a Culture of Innovation and The Power Of Laughing At Ourselves At Work. The estimated speaking fee range to book Tom Fishburne for your event is $10,000 - $20,000. Tom Fishburne generally travels from San Francisco, CA, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Matthew Luhn, Phil Hansen, Cesar Kuriyama, Greg Verdino and Simon Rogers. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Tom Fishburne for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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