Speaking From the Heart, Backed by Experience
Zach Glassman is a former Olympic Trials athlete turned commodities trader, creative founder, and hospitality visionary.
With a career spanning five languages, five continents, and five lives’ worth of reinvention, Zach speaks candidly about the interplay between ambition and stillness, hustle and healing, and the courage it takes to begin again.
Whether he’s keynoting for creatives, sharing brand strategy insights with marketing teams, or guiding hospitality entrepreneurs through pivotal transformation, Zach delivers talks that are grounded, magnetic, and impossible to forget.
Talk Topics
Beginner’s Mind in a Performance World
Reclaiming Curiosity, Creativity, and the Voice Within.
In a world obsessed with mastery, Zach offers a counterpoint: the quiet power of not knowing. This talk explores what happens when your identity is stripped away—by injury, burnout, or a seismic shift—and you're forced to start from zero, not as a failure, but as a fertile beginning.
Zach shares how breaking his neck in 2023 became an invitation—not just to slow down, but to listen. To get curious again. To reconnect with the inner child who once explored the world with wonder, not strategy.
Whether you're a seasoned executive, an artist mid-transformation, or someone searching for what’s next, this session is a call back to creative aliveness. It’s about the courage to ask “What if?” again. To play, to feel, to rebuild not in the image of your résumé—but in the image of who you really are.
Takeaways:
Why “beginner’s mind” is a superpower in leadership, creativity, and recovery
How to reconnect with your inner child for deeper creative and emotional clarity
Practices for turning rupture into reinvention
A new model of success—less about control, more about connection
Brand, Bond, and Brave Storytelling
Why connection, not conversion, is the real KPI
In a world obsessed with mastery, Zach offers a counterpoint: the quiet power of not knowing. This talk explores what happens when your identity is stripped away—by injury, burnout, or a seismic shift—and you're forced to start from zero, not as a failure, but as a fertile beginning.
Zach shares how breaking his neck in 2023 became an invitation—not just to slow down, but to listen. To get curious again. To reconnect with the inner child who once explored the world with wonder, not strategy.
Whether you're a seasoned executive, an artist mid-transformation, or someone searching for what’s next, this session is a call back to creative aliveness. It’s about the courage to ask “What if?” again. To play, to feel, to rebuild not in the image of your résumé—but in the image of who you really are.
Takeaways:
Why “beginner’s mind” is a superpower in leadership, creativity, and recovery
How to reconnect with your inner child for deeper creative and emotional clarity
Practices for turning rupture into reinvention
A new model of success—less about control, more about connection
The Art of Reinvention
Letting Go, Starting Over, and Listening for What’s Next
In a world obsessed with mastery, Zach offers a counterpoint: the quiet power of not knowing. This talk explores what happens when your identity is stripped away—by injury, burnout, or a seismic shift—and you're forced to start from zero, not as a failure, but as a fertile beginning.
Zach shares how breaking his neck in 2023 became an invitation—not just to slow down, but to listen. To get curious again. To reconnect with the inner child who once explored the world with wonder, not strategy.
Whether you're a seasoned executive, an artist mid-transformation, or someone searching for what’s next, this session is a call back to creative aliveness. It’s about the courage to ask “What if?” again. To play, to feel, to rebuild not in the image of your résumé—but in the image of who you really are.
Takeaways:
Why “beginner’s mind” is a superpower in leadership, creativity, and recovery
How to reconnect with your inner child for deeper creative and emotional clarity
Practices for turning rupture into reinvention
A new model of success—less about control, more about connection