Former Pixar animator Andrew Gordon helps organizations harness storytelling to spark innovation, inspire culture, and connect deeply with customers and employees.
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Great engaging storyteller, flexible to adjust content to serve best the event theme and objective, willing to provide extensive Q&A
Dimitar Andonov
The Coca-Cola Company
Former Pixar animator and award-winning storyteller, Andrew Gordon empowers leaders to harness storytelling as a strategic tool for culture, innovation, and impact. With experience shaping films like Finding Nemo and guiding brands like Salesforce and Deloitte, he delivers transformative keynotes that equip organizations to engage, inspire, and thrive in today’s competitive landscape.
Keynote Speaker Andrew Gordon is a master storyteller and creative leader who spent more than two decades shaping some of Pixar’s most beloved films, including Finding Nemo, A Bug’s Life, and The Incredibles. Known for blending imagination with strategy, he brings the same storytelling principles that captivated millions of moviegoers into the corporate world, helping leaders and organizations transform the way they communicate, innovate, and inspire.
Andrew’s unique expertise lies in demonstrating how storytelling fuels business success. Drawing from Pixar’s world-class creative process, he shows executives and teams how to craft messages that resonate, build stronger connections with stakeholders, and cultivate company cultures rooted in creativity and collaboration. His highly interactive keynotes and workshops go beyond inspiration; they provide practical, actionable tools leaders can immediately apply to strengthen communication, encourage innovation, and drive growth.
Trusted by global organizations such as Salesforce, Deloitte, Pinterest, and IDEO, Andrew has proven that storytelling is not just entertainment, it is a critical business strategy. His sessions are designed to help organizations unlock fresh ideas, embrace the value of failure, and communicate visions that move people to action.
Book Andrew Gordon for your event to engage your audience with captivating insights, Pixar-inspired storytelling frameworks, and the tools to build a culture where creativity thrives and innovation flourishes.
5 of 5
Great engaging storyteller, flexible to adjust content to serve best the event theme and objective, willing to provide extensive Q&A
Dimitar Andonov The Coca-Cola Company
Keynote by Andrew Gordon:
Can better storytelling lead to greater success for individuals, brands and organizations? “Absolutely!” says master storyteller Andrew Gordon, a veteran Hollywood animator who builds memorable, lovable characters and narratives for audiences of all ages. But too often, messages fall flat, are boring or sound repetitive rather than remarkable.
In this highly practical talk, Gordon takes participants – sales reps, marketers, human resource professionals, lawyers and others – on a journey through the anatomy of a great story, from premise to protagonist. He walks them through a seven-step process of breaking down a story and then shows how to apply this knowledge to create meaningful messages about brands, reputation, an organization’s value, and more.
After his talk, Gordon enjoys conducting intimate and engaging workshops that help individuals from companies like Deloitte, Facebook and Salesforce further expand their storytelling skills and address specific challenges.
Keynote by Andrew Gordon:
Between the to-do lists, the back-to-back meetings and looming performance targets, many employees say they simply don’t have time – or the talent – to be creative. Creativity, posits Andrew Gordon, comes in many forms, is essential to differentiating one brand from another, and can be learned.
In this talk, Gordon offers a peek inside organizations that crank up creativity to accelerate success and innovation. Using eye-opening exercises and practical tools, Gordon gives audiences a break from the busyness and teaches them how to tap into creativity to develop the jaw-dropping innovations that stakeholders demand.
Keynote by Andrew Gordon:
Films do not often start out perfect. The process is hard and failure at various stages is unavoidable. How we deliver and receive feedback can either elevate the process of making an innovative product – or it can hinder it.
For more than 20 years, Andrew Gordon has led creative teams to produce some of Hollywood’s most successful film projects. In order to learn from failure, he says, leaders must build trust amongst their teams, communicate feedback through candid conversations, and then revisit and rethink ideas to make them better. By examining the process of making an animated film, Gordon illustrates how leaders can make a business more innovative and agile by learning from failure.
Concepts explored are:
Creative problem solving
‘Plussing’ ideas – continuously adding to ideas to take them from bad to good to great
Breaking down power structures and hierarchies
Shifting from a negative to a positive mindset
Building a confident, trusting team
