About Marco

Billion Dollar Problem Solver Marco Marsan is a renowned motivational speaker and marketer, innovation expert, corporate anarchist, and founder of Marco Polo Explorers. He has inspired tens of thousands of people on the power of innovation and creativity with his speeches and books.

In his first book, Who Are You When Nobody's Looking? Marco explored the power of strategic life invention. His second book, Think Naked: Childlike brilliance in the rough adult world, helped readers reawaken the creative power of their four-year-old genius.

Now with The Lion's Way, Marsan introduces life-changing principles to self-help fiction in a thrilling adventure set in the future and the past. Marsan's provocative new novel presents empathy as the ultimate problem-solving tool.

Speeches

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Marco Marsan - Press Packet

Testimonials

“Marco is able to balance a pretty wacky personality with enough brainpower and results to establish credibility.”
Monica Hahn, SVP, CMO, New World Restaurant Group

“What a great presentation! Marco's speech sparked conversation not only last night, but into today (and hopefully well into the future).”
Andrea Brady, Inventor's Council of Cincinnati

“Marco has been a great help to SoBe. He's also one of the few consultants that fits perfectly with our non-linear culture and left of center brand. People here respect his thinking and admire his fancy shoes.”
Tom Smallhorn, VP Marketing, SoBe Beverages

“There is a chasm between creativity and productivity. Marco Marsan bridges the gap in the most enjoyable, breakthrough, explosive concept development process I've been part of!”
Tom Massey, CEO, Triangle2 Partners

“Excellent! I will be taking a lot of Marco's implementation ideas back to my company.”
Marty Burke, Promotion Manager, Florida Lottery

“Marco, Thank you! Excellent Work/Fun. Useable tools, immediately accessible. Great new ideas!”
Ken Kimmel, VP, Allied Domecq

“Marco Marsan is truly one of a kind - his off-beat humor and overflowing enthusiasm is contagious”
Suzanne Morton, Capital One

“This session was entertaining and very informational.”
Arlene Gerwin, Director, United Distillers & Vintners

“Incredible!”
Pamela Zirakian, Marketing Manager, Eastman Kodak Company

“Great way to begin the conference. Brought delegates together in an entertaining and informative way.”
“Motivating!"
“Lots of energy, very motivating”
“Amazing, Very engaging. Excellent content, very funny”
“Stellar performance, talented”
Delegate Comments from IIR's Entertainment Branding and Tie-Ins Conference

“Marco Marsan is truly a strategic explorer in the field of marketing creativity. His unique process, combined with his dynamic and radiant energy, works like magic in a group of any size to create winning ideas. He motivates people to explore the unknown and the impossible, and then duly bring them back to focus on the bottomline results. Get him before your competitor...”
Nira Jiang, Z-Marketing

“What an outstanding presentation!”
Wendy Solomon-Weizel, IIR

“Marco is quite a dude... no wonder his clients are enthusiastic and contented!”
Dr. Leo Buscaglia (1995)

“To get to where you're going, you've gotta know where you've been! Marco Marsan takes you there.”
Chuck D, Public Enemy, Fox Network Expert

“Marco Marsan's style is warm, humorous and enlightening.”
Art Linkletter

“Marco Marsan is full of imagination...”
Sue Wellington, President, Gatorade

“Fun, practical and provocative, Marco Marsan is one of today's most original thinkers - Marco Marsan really gets people fired up.”
Sam Wyche, Former NFL Coach, Inventor of the "No-Huddle Offense", Architect of the West Coast Offense

“Marco is a champion at bringing ideas out of your creative side that you never knew you had.”
Soren Bjorn, Vice President, Del Monte

“Today's world is filled with analysis, logic, and the math of how things work. Such thinking is one-dimensional without applying judgment informed also by creativity. Think Naked leads us beyond the math to our visceral instincts, opening up new possibilities and solutions.”
Dave Burwick, SVP and CMO, Pepsi-Cola North America

“Marco's dynamic persona, coupled with his personal and collective team's talents, practically guarantee success...and have lots of fun along the way.”
Troy Geesaman, Director - Discovery Innovation Group, Cadbury Schweppes Americas Beverages

“Marco Marsan with his creative genius and intensely disciplined method is the shortest distance between a blank page and a slate of winning concepts.”
Leah Evans, YUM Global Sr. Vice President Research and Development

“Marco Marsan and his philosophy captures the essence of what we want and need in this lifetime, a full and bountiful day, unconditional love and a cool set of building blocks.”
Jody Bilney, CMO, Open Wave Systems