Phil Hansen
highly-reviewedAbout Phil Hansen
“Phil was excellent and a great fit for our XCHANGE national user conference. He helped healthcare executives have a fun time and let their guards down (no easy feat, especially when you're followed by revenue cycle and artificial intelligence very granular subject matter) to allow their creative juices to flow and "think bigger" as we're collectively solving tough challenges in our industry. I'm still in awe of how he quickly put together over 400 pieces of art to make a mosaic (in a matter of minutes?) ... and how he also quickly created our recap video for same-day turn-around? It was a highlight of our final day of the conference.”
Speech topics
Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities
Embrace the Shake: Transforming Limitations into Opportunities
Success, especially in today’s fast-changing business environment, depends on our ability to make "creativity and innovation" a continuous process. Leaders want to know how their teams can rise above any challenge and succeed no matter what comes their way. Whether it’s to embrace change, overcome obstacles, sustain growth, or take your success to the next level, they want to “Embrace the Shake”.
The term “Embrace the Shake” is coined from Artist Phil Hansen’s personal story of transformation. After developing a career-ending tremor in his drawing hand, Phil embraced his “shake” both physically and metaphorically by redefining his limitation as an impetus for creativity. Phil not only restored his artistic abilities, he became a much more creative and innovative artist than ever before. Upon sharing his message on the TED stage and millions subsequently after, “Embrace the Shake” has become a motto for many businesses to approach their limitations in a new way.
Phil’s powerful message of finding creativity within limitations will inspire you to stop looking on the outside, and start looking inside yourself for resources that can transform your challenges into opportunities for success. And like Phil’s art, “Embrace the shake” isn’t just a talk, it’s an experience! Through jaw-dropping visuals and LIVE interactive art, get ready to break preconceived assumptions, activate your creative capacity, and bring fresh ways of viewing the task at hand that will culminate with success.
Are you ready to Embrace your Shake?
Speaking videos
Media coverage
Opinion: Art that embraces our limits - CNN.com
Phil Hansen's new project started as a way of connecting people, but he says it's ... He spoke at the TED2013 conference in February. .... Opinion on the news.
Books by Phil Hansen
“When I was 7...: Hundreds of memories from when people were 7 years old.” (2018)
This book is an anthology containing over 600 stories from when people were 7 years old, flip anywhere and read. The stories will make you squirm, cringe, laugh, tear up - some will raise your pulse or cause you to sigh with relaxed contemplation. You will certainly find many stories that remind you of childhood. We hope this book makes you smile. We did while making it!
“Phil Hansen: In Process” (2015)
Phil Hansen on paper?! For the millions who have viewed his art creation videos online, it's hard to imagine a Phil without the soundtrack and signature burst of action. Yet the printed medium brings out an intricacy in his work that is easy to overlook in the glitz of video. At the core of that intricacy is the fragment. Fragments in the whole, the whole in fragments. Macrocosm and microcosm. These 32 pieces show Hansen's synecdochic cerebrum at its playful finest across an exotic palette of media, materials and techniques.
“Tattoo a Banana: And Other Ways to Turn Anything and Everything Into Art” (2012)
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