Jason Bevan
- Former Warner Bros. creative executive with experience at Disney.
- Shares behind-the-scenes lessons from iconic films and legendary filmmakers.
- Equips teams with practical tools to spark creativity and drive innovation.
Jason Bevan Speaker Biography
Jason Bevan is widely regarded as one of the most inventive minds in an industry where there is no shortage of creativity. As the former head of creative development and VP of European marketing at Warner Bros. Studios, he collaborated across 37 teams and was known for his passion for pushing creative boundaries on campaigns across all movie genres. Prior to Warner Bros., Bevan worked for The Walt Disney Company in London and Paris and continues to partner alongside many of the top film and entertainment studios on their “tent pole” movie titles as a co-founder of Content Creator Studios, based in London and Los Angeles.
As a sought-after keynote speaker, he captures the audience’s imagination as he draws upon fascinating stories from his time working behind the scenes of many of the most beloved films of our time to reveal how some of the best-known filmmakers, cast, and studios he worked with created their iconic film ideas and stories, and how we can all use their simple, powerful approaches to rocket-fuel our innovation and creativity in our own work.
Bevan’s reputation precedes him, having led the creative development process at Warner Bros. — marketing legendary movies spanning the EMEA region, including the Harry Potter/Fantastic Beasts films, The Lego Movie 1 and 2, The Hobbit trilogy, Aquaman, and Batman/The Dark Knight, right through to Oscar winners like A Star is Born, comedies including The Hangover films, and chilling horror titles like the Conjuring and IT franchises. Throughout his career, he has worked directly with some of the world’s most legendary filmmakers, storytellers, cast, and film studios; From directors like Steven Spielberg, Christopher Nolan, and Peter Jackson to legendary actors and actresses, such as Tom Cruise, Matt Damon, Johnny Depp, Morgan Freeman, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Margot Robbie Brad Pitt, and even Clint Eastwood.
Beyond the silver screen, Bevan’s thought leadership resonates on stages worldwide, from the prestigious TED circuit to the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. He is also a frequent judge on panels for various highly regarded awards in the creative industry and conducts talks and masterclasses for major global brands, companies, governments, NGOs and renowned trade and industry events and organisations worldwide.
Bevan is a catalyst for change and creativity whose lessons from the world of entertainment connect with anyone looking for new ways to unlock innovation within their organisations and drive their businesses forward.
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Rocketfuel your Innovation & creativity: Insider secrets from big movies and their makers
Packed with creative bravery from huge movies and the renown people on them, Jason uses movie footage and inspiration from 20 years working in the big film world to show how innovation and creativity have become one of our most valuable and potent business skills in all industry sectors.
Jason’s easy to follow steps can be applied to work and home lives, regardless of our walk of life. All taken from some of the most renown, creative people in the film world. Jason’s talks show how we can tap into the creativity and storytelling skills we already have, but often don’t use…including people that don’t think they are innovative! It’s a chance to transform your thinking, identify what triggers your own ideas and embed a refreshingly inspiring culture of creativity into your organisation, with a fun, uplifting and highly energetic, movie-led experience.
What you’ll get:
- Inspiring insider stories and clips of bold creativity from the big movie sets and their film-makers
- 5 practical, potent tips from the movie industry to immediately improve your innovation and creativity your own world
Innovation and Creativity from the movie sets in the age of uncertainty & Gen AI
The climate of uncertainty raises nerves and can put teams on the back foot, just as they need to be doing quite the opposite to secure competitive advantage. The benefit of disruption is that it also provides a window of opportunity to advance change.
Developing transformative new ideas with the help of Gen AI is about much more than bolting AI tools onto our workflows. Jason shows how gen AI can inform and propel new innovations if we boldly re-address our business fundamentals with the new capabilities it offers us.
The movie world is adept at combining Sapience: human thinking alongside Gen AI. This allows us to allocate the right work to AI, liberating us by removing more routine and analytical tasks from our inboxes.
Lastly, Jason’s talk shows how the increasing proliferation of exclusively gen AI creativity can lead to “train track ideation” where new ideas are simply tweaks and iterations, informed by the past. Those that leverage the power of human feelings to inspire, and motivate alongside AI, will continue to have powerful advantage.
What you’ll get:
- Exceptional stories from big movies with the upsides of both human and automated creativity
- 5 simple, incisive ways you can springboard your creativity & innovation with Gen AI for optimum result
Drive feelings and spur action with atomic movie storytelling
Logic, facts, science and data are great to get people to agree with you. To drive action, you need to create powerful feelings with storytelling.
Jason has been lucky enough to work directly with JK Rowling, Christopher Nolan and the families of other storytelling legends including Roald Dahl and JRR Tolkien. He saw how they captivate their audiences and readers by allowing their own personalities to drive what they write, giving exceptional passion, power and personal relatability to their characters and settings. He got insight into how they structure their stories with captivating starts that take you on a journey of transformation, with surprises along the way. He reveals how the best storytellers channel their physical environments where they write and their own experiences to inspire and energise their thinking; allowing them to find new, refreshing and potent ways to engage imaginations.
Jason shows how they and others did this, with inspiring examples from the movies he has worked on. Most importantly he gives five easy to follow techniques from the big storytellers and their movies, that we can all enjoy and use effectively to inspire and powerfully communicate.
What you’ll get:
- Film clips and incredible storytelling secrets Jason has learnt from JK Rowling, Christopher Nolan and more
- Transform your storytelling and drive customers to action with incisive, practical takeaway tips the top film-makers use
Masterclasses
Jason offers highly effective, practical tools from the movies to liberate your thinking and reveal undiscovered creativity in yourself and your team.
These sessions range from 2 hours to a full day and can focus on techniques to embed a culture of creativity or ideate on a specific business brief where you need new thinking. Topics include:
Identifying and resolving barriers to a creative culture, like the time to think or a fear of potential negativity from bosses or colleagues.
Thinking like a voraciously hungry rule-breaking startup: Establishing the conventions, perceived guardrails and limitations to our organisations and which need to be kept for good reasons and which, with bravery, could be eliminated to transform the organisation . For example what would happen if we doubled our appetite to risk, tripled our budget or went after a fundamentally new type of customer?
How to clarify and hone a creative brief to transform it into a true ideas launchpad. Directing your thinking at the area of real business need, with realistic objectives, firmly grounded in strategy and data insight.
Using Gen AI in ideation: how to effectively use a variety of gen AI tools in ideation from large language models and still/moving image generators through to music, localisation, extension & adaption tools as well as using AI data analysis.
Keynotes & Masterclasses on the Movie Sets
Jason has access to movie sound stage studios in various key cities that can provide extraordinary backdrops for teams to change gear and be truly inspired in the places where some of the world’s most epic films were made.
For the ultimate creative movie experience, Jason’s production company can make special arrangements for guests to hear one of Jason’s keynotes at a movie studio and then actually star in their own high end movie scene with sets, stunts and special effects.
Storytelling, innovation and creativity offsite on the original Harry Potter film sets!
Fancy learning the art of JK Rowling’s magical storytelling and creativity in the Hogwarts Great Hall or Dumbledore’s Office?
Special access can be reserved to the original film sets where the actual films were made, near London as Jason takes you on a travelling keynote of JKR’s tips and techniques for creating such captivating stories on the beloved sets of Hogwarts, The Ministry of Magic and beyond, where Jason spent time working.
