John K. Coyle

A 5X TEDx speaker, innovation professor, best-selling author, Emmy award winner, Olympic silver medalist, Stanford and Northwestern (Kellogg MBA) grad, and Fortune 500 Executive – John K. Coyle’s success as an international keynote speaker is in some ways despite these accolades. In a sea of sameness with a seemingly infinite number of elite performers, coaches, and executives repeating the same adages about perseverance, leadership, or “time management,” John is the only person in the world speaking about time mastery.

What is time mastery? Time, as we experience it, is not linear, yet why do we pretend that it is? Time speeds up, slows down, and it stops. The ancient Greeks recognized the difference in experiential time, called kairos, and chronological time, or chronos. When you value your time based on the memories created by your experiences, the value of an increment of time is not related to its duration. John explains the mechanics of how the brain “constructs” time out of memories, and he uses his Design Thinking expertise to show you how to create experiences – for yourself, family and loved ones - to maximize memory creation and recall. Designing your life this way allows you to slow down time so that summers “last forever” and life can seem nearly infinite. That is what time mastery is… This is also relevant in business: for clients and customers – when you design interactions to become the first recall, you also become the first call.

Rather than just sharing boring science and statistics, John illuminates his talks through the art of storytelling and experience design. John frames his talks and workshops through the lens of the Hero’s Journey (or “monomyth”) and when asked, co-creates truly unique time-bending experiences that illuminate the key drivers of memory creation and time-expansion. (These are not for the faint-of-heart!) For audiences lucky enough to experience them, these time-stopping “event horizon” events have a before and after and create indelible life-long memories.

John's hair-raising tales from his adventures, athletics, businesses and travels - examined through the lens of neuroscience, technology and psychology have created raving fans all around the world (check out his 95+ LinkedIn recommendations here). John has been the lead keynote speaker in more than 20 countries for clients that include a who’s who of successful enterprises: Arab Bank, Allstate, American Airlines, Aon, BP, Cisco, Coca-Cola, Deloitte, EO, Google, IDEO, JFK International Terminal, Kellogg, McDonalds, Optum, Pepsi, PwC, Stanford, Texas Health, YPO and the Dubai, Omani and Jordanian Royal Families.