Carla Johnson is a respected keynote speaker, best-selling author, marketing expert and the World's leading innovation architect. Named as one of the Top 50 Women in Marketing and one of the top influencers in her field, Carla is continuing to forge her success as the CEO of Re:Think Labs. Book Carla today when looking for a speaker on all thing’s innovation.
After studying for a Master's Degree in History from the University of Nebraska, Carla began her early career working for architects and developing her marketing skills. In 2001, Carla founded Re:Think Labs, an organisation committed to helping businesses facing culture issues. With Re:Think Labs, Carla aims to build an ideal workplace culture to accelerate innovation, engagement and growth. With over 20 years’ experience in her field, Carla has partnered with some top global brands. As the world's leading innovation architect, she explains that many organisations are using outdated methods to solve new-world problems, and it is not efficient. Therefore, Carla offers talks and advice on the best ways to tackle problems with workplace culture and how to create a more positive workplace culture.
Carla has also volunteered for multiple organisations such as being former Chair of Business Marketing Association which focuses on developing B2B marketers where she became the president of the local chapter and went on to chair the national board. Carla is also an expert in storytelling, using her expertise to coach people on the art of effective communication. As the Business Marketer of the Year 2018, she works to help brands explain what it is they do and how they do it, meanwhile creating a positive relationship with their audience. She’s aiming to teach 1 million people how to become innovators by 2025.
As an established author, Carla has also been involved in the development of 10 books so far with her newest being ‘RE:Think Innovation: How the World's Most Prolific Innovators Come Up with Great Ideas that Deliver Extraordinary Outcomes’ where she explains all that is needed to be innovative is a 5-step framework that is simple to follow. Carla is now following a career as a coach and keynote speaker, spreading her expertise on innovation architecture to the biggest organisations across the globe. If you are looking for a speaker on workplace culture, innovation and creating better business, don't hesitate in booking Carla Johnson today!
How to hire Carla Johnson
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Carla Johnson's speaking topics are listed below.
- RE:Think Innovation
- Architecting Innovation
- Storytelling for Innovation
- The Six Faces of Innovation
Carla was magnificent. Her message was extremely insightful and captivated our audience. She truly overshot our expectations. We would highly recommend her and our audience gave nothing but positive feedback. Bart, Director of Operations, Media at DrivingSales
After hearing Carla Johnson speak at numerous events, I had her speak and lead workshops at meetings with marketing leaders from our top customers. It was the best-reviewed session we ever did. Carla adapted and personalized the message to address the specific needs of the group and gave them actionable takeaways they could implement in their businesses. She’s relevant and engaging and I can’t recommend her highly enough for any speaking engagement. She should definitely be on the top of everyone's list of speakers. Deborah, Director of Sales Enanblement, Comcast Business
- 2021 – RE:Think Innovation-book launch
- 2020 – Volunteer for WIN:Women in Innovation
- 2018 – Business Marketer of the Year Award
- 2017 – Chair, Board of advisors,B2B Marketing-Association of National Advertisers.
- 2017 – Programme Director, Digital Marketing-Harbour.Space
- 2001 – Launch of RE:Think Labs
- 1997 – Master of Arts, History University of Nebraska at Omaha
