TRANSFORM & INSPIRE YOUR TEAM THROUGH CREATIVITY & CONNECTION
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‘THE ART OF HUMAN CONNECTION’ WAS ONE OF THE BEST EVENTS WE HAVE EVER HOSTED AND THE PRESENTATION HAS STUCK WITH ME EVER SINCE.
- Jeffrey Dickinson, Events Leader
WE OFFER 1 KEYNOTE & 1 WORKSHOP.
YOUR AUDIENCE IS GONNA LOVE IT.
The Art of Human Connection helps participants develop deeper relationships and feel less isolated in the workplace.
After more than 10 years and thousands of participants, our approach sparks the creative inside every human—even ones who don’t feel creative.
Teams leave more closely connected, energized by new ways to engage with themselves and each other, and inspired to collaborate more meaningfully in the digital age.
OFFERINGS
KEYNOTE
Description
Ivan Cash’s keynote inspires audiences to reconsider human connection as a creative medium in and of itself. Featuring case studies from his world-renowned social experiments, audiences leave energized to explore human connection in new and surprising ways.
Takeaways
Discover human connection in the most unlikely places
Make space to deepen relationships
Create your own social experiments
WORKSHOP
Description
‘The Art of Human Connection’ Workshop (remote friendly) gets participants out of their seats to connect with each other in new, meaningful ways through unforgettable prompts, masterful creative experiments, and next-level facilitation.
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AMONG AN ALL-STAR LINE UP OF GLOBAL INDUSTRY EXPERTS, ‘THE ART OF HUMAN CONNECTION’ WAS THE TOP-RATED EVENT AT OUR SUMMIT. AND FOR GOOD REASON!
- Margi Lynn, Head of Social & Content
FROM DUBLIN TO TOKYO
The Art of Human Connection Keynote and Workshop Experience has toured the world for over 75 companies, organizations, universities, and conferences, across four continents. We've delivered Keynotes for audiences as large as 1,500 and workshops for up to 750 attendees.
Founded by Forbes 30 Under 30 artist Ivan Cash, we are experts in creating community-driven projects that engage worldwide audiences and influence culture. This work has been featured in The New York Times, CNN, Wall Street Journal, Wired, BBC, and Vice.
TEAM
IVAN CASH
FOUNDER
Ivan Cash is a Forbes 30 Under 30 artist and filmmaker whose work focuses on igniting human connection in an increasingly divided and isolated world. From recruiting 2,000 volunteers to handwrite and send 30,000 emails to connecting 50,000 strangers from 75 countries to draw each other, his work highlights our shared humanity.
He has presented his work at SXSW, Sundance, TEDx, The New York Times, and Stanford University. His work has received over 100 million online views, received five Vimeo Staff Picks, multiple Webby Honorees, and a Fast Company World Changing Ideas award. His work has also been collected by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, commissioned by Netflix, MTV, and Airbnb Studios, and distributed by Vice, The Atlantic, and Nowness. He has been recognized as an Adweek Creative 100, Art Directors Club Young Gun, and Print New Visual Artist.
ISIS KRAUSE
EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
Isis Krause is a facilitator, strategist, and experience designer who has led hundreds of strategy and engagement workshops and large-scale convenings with hundreds of participants. She has architected or scaled social impact organizations including Philanthropy Together, The Genuine, Donors of Color Network, Purpose School at The American College of Financial Services, Freedom School, Amplifier, Civic Spirit, and many more.
She is passionate about the transformative power of bringing people together and how to move people to act for impact, and the outcomes of her work have been profiled in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Chronicle of Philanthropy. Collectively Isis’ clients are contributing to the movement of more than a billion dollars toward justice and social impact globally. Isis is a UCLA and Le Cordon Bleu alumna, lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two babes under 5, and always seems to have a loaf of bread rising somewhere in the house—much to her family’s delight!
CARLA FERNANDEZ
EXPERIENCE DESIGNER
Carla Fernandez is an experience designer, facilitator and community strategist. She focuses on projects that bring creativity, joy and connection to the roots of our most intractable problems.
She has experience working foundations, government agencies at local and federal levels, coalitions and brands, united by their drive to repair or restore a part of their industry or community.
She is co-founder of The Dinner Party, the world’s first nonprofit dedicated to solving the crisis of isolation at our most universal intervention point - grief and loss, for people in their 20-40s. The Dinner Party is now active in nearly 100 cities and featured in New York Times, NPR, and Good Morning America.
TESTIMONIALS
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EFFORTLESSLY COMBINED SUBSTANCE, DEPTH, HUMOR, AND ACCESSIBILITY. IT WAS THE THING THAT PEOPLE TOOK AWAY FROM OUR FOUR DAY EVENT.
- Rob Shore, Event Curator
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A REMINDER OF THE POSSIBILITIES FOR HUMANIZING TECHNOLOGY, INSPIRING OUR TEAM TO LET LOOSE, AND EXPLORE.
- Angela Primavera, PayPal Design
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THIS WORKSHOP HELPED OUR TEAM BREAK OUT OF TUNNEL VISION THROUGH MASTERFUL PROMPTS AND ILLUMINATING IDEAS.
- Brian Singer, Design Manager
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AFTER 25+ KEYNOTES, THE ART OF HUMAN CONNECTION WAS STILL EVERYONE’S FAVORITE.
- Maria Scileppi, Director of 72U
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‘THE ART OF HUMAN CONNECTION’ WORKSHOP ELEVATED OUR COLLECTIVE IDEATION AND PUSHED THE TEAM TO REACH NEW CREATIVE DIMENSIONS.
- Nola Weinstein, Head of Engagement
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INTERACTIVE, RELEVANT, AND A WORK OF STORYTELLING IN AND OF ITSELF. WE ALL LEFT INSPIRED.
- Christian Rongavilla, Creative Lead
