Geoff Thatcher, Creative Principals, author of "The CEO Time Machine"
Unlocking Your World of Creativity
Mark Stinson
5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2024
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Brand Experiences, Creative Leadership, and AI with Geoff Thatcher
Welcome back to *Your World of Creativity*! In this episode, we are thrilled to have Geoff Thatcher, a creative leader with over 40 years of experience in crafting world-class brand experiences. From Warner Brothers World in Abu Dhabi to the FM Global Center in Singapore, Geoff's projects are renowned globally. Today, we dive into the intersection of creativity and artificial intelligence, exploring how AI is reshaping creative industries and leadership.
- **AI in Storytelling:** Geoff discusses the dual perspectives on AI—dystopian fears and its role as a storytelling tool. He shares an example of using AI to create personalized songs for a leadership workshop, highlighting its potential to enhance creative experiences.
- **Historical Context of Technology in Creativity:** Geoff draws parallels between past technologies like Pepper's Ghost and animatronics, emphasizing that AI is simply the next tool in the evolution of storytelling.
- **Universal Languages in Experience Design:** Geoff outlines universal elements in storytelling such as music, geography, time, and light, which transcend cultural boundaries and are fundamental in creating immersive experiences.
- **Experience Design Model:** Geoff explains his experience design model: Attract, Trust, Inform, Internalize, and Act. He illustrates its application across various cultural contexts, including powerful examples like the Holocaust Memorial in Washington, D.C.
- **Global Collaboration and Future of Creativity:** Geoff expresses excitement about the potential of AI and other technologies to facilitate global collaboration and overcome language barriers, enabling richer creative exchanges and projects.
**Key Quote:**
"AI allows us to put guests in a story in ways that are so incredibly fun. It's simply a tool to bring people into an experience. We get all hyperventilating about AI, but it's not any different than when they came out with interactive touch screens or 3D film. It's just another arrow in the quiver of experience design."
Stay tuned for more episodes as we continue our global journey, talking to creative leaders about their inspirations, ideas, and the confidence to bring their work into the world. Until next time, keep unlocking your world of creativity!
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| 1:06.0 | Unlocking your world of creativity with best-selling author and brand innovator Mark Stinson. |
| 1:15.0 | Hello, friends and welcome back to our podcast, |
| 1:18.0 | your world of creativity. |
| 1:20.0 | We continue to travel the globe talking to creative leaders about their experiences and our |
| 1:26.1 | guest today is certainly one of those leaders with more than 40 years of experience creating |
| 1:32.0 | world-class brand experiences that really |
| 1:34.9 | transcend borders and my guest is Jeff Thatcher. Jeff welcome to the show. |
| 1:40.1 | Thanks Mark it's great to be here. You've got some great projects under your belt, Jeff, like the Warner |
| 1:46.8 | Brothers World in Abu Dhabi, the FM Global Center in Singapore. I love to read about your work with the F1 team |
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