Harris III
- Founder & Managing Partner at Istoria
- Top-Rated Speaker
- Bestselling Author
- Serial Entrepreneur
Harris III Speaker Biography
Harris III (“the third”) is a top-rated speaker, award-winning illusionist, #1 bestselling author and has over 20 years of experience as a creative entrepreneur.
As one of the most seasoned speakers in the world, he has performed and spoken live at over 2,000 events to more than 2 million people in all 50 states and more than 30 countries on 6 continents. He has presented to millions more on multiple TV appearances on networks like the Travel Channel and ABC Family, and features on renowned YouTube channels like DudePerfect.
After touring the globe and making $1 million by 21-years-old, only to go bankrupt at 22, Harris kickstarted a decade-long journey to understand the stories we tell ourselves and how they
drive all human behavior.
Armed with a unique perspective, his career re-exploded as the Founder of Istoria Collective and The Poetics Guild, creator of the storyOS™, host of one of the top 1% podcasts in the world, and an in-demand coach and consultant to leaders of both small businesses and global brands.
His expertise at crafting transformative learning experiences has drawn the attention of creative leaders and executives at companies like Apple, Disney, Amazon, Nike and more, along with some of the most innovative non-profit organizations and government agencies in the world–even NASA.
Harris is now on a relentless mission to help leaders and entrepreneurs 10x their influence and growth, so we can solve our current leadership crisis with creativity and curiosity.
Driven by the belief that every problem is a storytelling problem, he’ll take you on an unforgettable journey of self-discovery and help you leverage the ground-breaking science of awe and wonder, so you can shift the narratives that drive all beliefs and behavior. The outcome is simple: So you can win, both in leadership and in life, and create a better future for yourself, your organization and our world.
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Start with Wow: How to Leverage the Groundbreaking Science of Awe and Wonder to Innovate and Win in Leadership and in Life
Simon says, “Start with Why,” but there’s an important step getting skipped by countless leaders and it’s costing them. In this highly-acclaimed keynote, Harris makes the case that we should actually “Start with Wow,” and lays the groundwork for how leading with “wow” leads to game-changing thinking, culture and innovation.
Based on the latest research and neuroscience as showcased in his bestselling book, The Wonder Switch, Harris will take your audience on an unforgettable journey back to a state where truly anything is possible–the state of child-like wonder. In a culture of rapid and unprecedented change, he’ll help your audience understand how worry is a misuse of their imagination, and how every member of every team has the capacity to create, innovate, and solve big problems by starting with “wow” instead of “how.”
This is more than just another talk by just another speaker––it’s a transformative experience of magic, storytelling, insights, and ideas that will capture both the minds and hearts of your audience, all while offering a new, narrative-shifting paradigm that leaves them never seeing themselves, or their work, the same again.
What do innovative organizations like Apple, Google, Disney, Amazon, Meta, Nike, NASA and more have in common? They send their leaders and teams to Harris to learn how to leverage the power of awe and wonder to shift narratives and create the future.
Inquire now, and discover why hundreds of event planners have called Harris, “The best speaker we’ve ever had.”
Wow-Level Leadership
Managers are responsible for the present. Leaders are responsible for the future. Sadly, there’s a global leadership crisis, and it’s directly connected to a crisis of curiosity and creativity.
The old economy may have been built on information and knowledge, but the new economy is build on wisdom and wonder. As we move from the information age to an imagination age, most organizations are ill-equipped with the curious and creative leadership being demanded by this time in human history.
We don’t just need slightly better leaders. We need extraordinary leaders––Wow-Level Leaders––who choose wonder over worry, curiosity over cynicism, and learn to recognize the reality that “creative” isn’t just something all leaders are, but that “create” is the essence of what all leaders do.
By redefining leadership at it’s core, Harris offers tangible examples of how team leadership starts with wow, and what you can do to lead every team member to unlock their greatest potential and deliver their best, most creative work.
The Wow-Level Life
“The Wow-Level Life” is more than just an unforgettable keynote experience or momentous series of events; it’s a movement towards living a life that’s not just good, but extraordinary.
By teaching ourselves to find beauty and magic in the broken and monotonous innundating life as we know it, you can kickstart a journey of self-discovery that will get you clear and unstuck, instead living a life overflowing with opportunity, wisdom, and wonder.
Building upon the ground-breaking neuroscience and leading psychological research on mental and emotional health as outlined in his #1 bestselling book, The Wonder Switch, which Seth Godin called “An unforgettable book about our ability to care and lead,” this keynote experience will increase employee engagement and retention, reduce stress, burnout and anxiety, and reignite the sense of “wow” that gives birth to the kind of “why” that helps teams thrive and organizations win both in leadership and in life.
The storyOS Upgrade
We are storytelling creatures. We think in story. We feel in story. We walk around all day long telling ourselves stories to make sense of our pain, find meaning in our experiences, and to not just survive, but belong.
Story is the operating system of the human mind. The stories we’re told and the stories we tell ourselves form powerful narratives, and those narratives drive all human behavior.
Armed with new storytelling wisdom, you and your audience can learn to wield story skills wisely to spark or navigate change, communicate complex visions or ideas with simplicity, and shift the narratives that are driving the choices, beliefs and behavior of those you wish to lead.
