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About
Jay Acunzo is waging war on conventional thinking. As a digital media strategist at Google, Jay was responsible for pushing marketing executives and practitioners into the digital age more rapidly, in ways that benefitted both companies and careers. He held multiple leadership positions at high-growth tech startups, including Head of Content at HubSpot, and served as Vice President of Brand and Community at the venture capital firm NextView. On the side, Jay created the award-winning podcast, Unthinkable, and co-founded Boston Content, the northeast’s largest community of content creators and marketers.
Jay’s work has been cited in courses at Harvard Business School and by writers at the New York Times, the Washington Post, FastCompany, Forbes, and more. He’s been called a “creative savant” by Salesforce and was named to the city of Boston’s “50 on Fire” list.
Today, Jay is the founder of Unthinkable Media, which works with fast-growing startups and challenger brands to create entertaining B2B shows. In a world where “storyteller” has become a buzzword, Jay actually understands how to tell great stories — stories that entertain, surprise, teach, and above all, push people beyond conventional thinking so they can do their best work. His book, Break the Wheel, inspires others to do exactly that.
Further Background:
Vice President of Platform, NextView Ventures
Head of Content, HubSpot
Director of Content, Dailybreak Media
Digital Media Strategist, Google, Inc.
Communications & PR, ESPN
Sports Writer, The Hartford Courant -
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Topics
Resonance over Reach – How to Stop Chasing Attention and Become The One Buyers Seek
Too much marketing feels like shouting into the storm, hoping to be heard, but when you meet the strongest communicators and storytellers, it feels like they could whisper and people care, share, and buy. What are they doing differently?
They don’t market more. They matter more. They develop and deliver their ideas to resonate, because resonance drives revenue (yes, even more than reach).
In this inspiring keynote, Jay Acunzo will show your attendees how to stop chasing attention and become more highly sought. They’ll learn how to stop running on the hamster wheel, escape the Commodity Cage, and become the one others pick, stick with, and refer.
Are you ready to resonate?
In this session, Attendees learn:-
A framework to increase the impact of any idea
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How to differentiate from peers without spending more
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Techniques to combine expertise with storytelling to drive action
Clarity Creates Customers – The Hidden Frameworks Business Leaders Use to Turn Their Expertise into Messages that Move the Market
Clarity Creates Customers
The Hidden Frameworks Business Leaders Use to Turn Their Expertise into messages that move the market
The journey from scattered thinking to succinct message can feel agonizing, but we’ve all met people and teams who communicate to the world with such clarity, they have an easier time growing.
How can we achieve that level of powerful clarity too?
In this powerful session, Jay Acunzo helps attendees bridge the gap between endless ideas and a single, powerful message capable of moving the market. The audience will shift their perspective around what it really takes to achieve clarity in their stories, messages, marketing, and even 1:1 interactions, and they’ll walk away with practical techniques they can apply immediately.
Brevity gets buyers. Repeatability drives revenue. Clarity creates customers.
In this session, attendees learn:
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How to move from scattered thinking to a focused, market-moving Big Idea
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A framework for turning your expertise into ownable intellectual property
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Techniques to customize your message across your public platform and buyer types
Humanity’s LLM – How To Tell Stronger Stories Built to earn trust and spark action in a Bot-Driven world
People and AI both rely on LLMs as their foundations. AI has large language models, but people have something else—and it’s the source of all our strongest stories.
Whether you want to align your team or hire top talent, earn trust with a prospect or keep an existing customer happy (and ready to refer you to others), it’s your storytelling which accelerates trust, affinity, and action.
In this fast-paced, inspiring talk, Jay Acunzo will take attendees inside the techniques used by the world’s most gripping storytellers and translate their methods for the world of work. Your audience will learn the difference between good and effective stories, so they can earn trust and spark action, no matter where they communicate, and they’ll walk away ready to compete on the impact of their words, not the volume of their marketing.
Attendees will learn:
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How to differentiate your story so it cuts through the noise
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Techniques to wield your own humanity as a powerful source of ideas in an AI-flooded world
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A simple system to transform yourself and/or your team into beloved communicators and trusted voices
Speaking as a superpower – How to Develop and Deliver Exceptional talks and presentations for any audience or stakeholder
Perfect for VIP’s, Leaders, or an invite-only special session
In this practical, powerful session, Jay Acunzo draws on his decade-plus experience as a professional keynote speaker, team leader, and public speaking coach to help attendees become a stronger speakers.Your audience will walk away empowered to develop and deliver better talks to bigger crowds, give stronger presentations in closed rooms to teams and stakeholders, or merely use their voices to greater effect everywhere they need to communicate, teach, inspire, and lead.
In this session, Attendees learn:
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A repeatable structure to develop presentations with less stress and greater impact.
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The 3 missing elements in most presentations and how to wield them
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How to ensure people lean in, take notes, and take action when you speak
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Testimonials
2 people have recommended this speaker
“An original thinker and dynamic presenter, Jay is becoming one of the “must-see” speakers at any marketing and communication event.”
“Smart, funny, entertaining…Jay is the guy you hope you'll get when you settle into your seat at that conference you paid so much for: a super-smart, funny, entertaining speaker who generously shares his unique insights and front-line experience.”
“Smart, funny, entertaining…Jay is the guy you hope you'll get when you settle into your seat at that conference you paid so much for: a super-smart, funny, entertaining speaker who generously shares his unique insights and front-line experience.”