Human Plus
Better decisions in uncertain times — powered by your best asset, your brain.
Learn More→Marco Marsan is the founder of Marco Polo Explorers — a branding, marketing, design, and innovation consultancy trusted by the world's most iconic brands.

For over three decades, Marco Marsan has helped Fortune 500 brands turn wild ideas into billion-dollar businesses. He is a founder, author, keynote speaker, and self-proclaimed professional adventurer whose "Human Plus" philosophy is reshaping how leaders think about creativity, culture, and AI.


















































































































"AI didn't come to replace us. It came to amplify what makes us most human — our creativity, our culture, our courage to be weird."
Human Plus is Marco's framework for the age of AI. It argues that the winning brands, teams, and leaders won't be the ones who outsource thinking to machines — they'll be the ones who use machines to unlock deeper humanity: taste, story, empathy, and the kind of bold ideas no algorithm can dream up on its own.
Better decisions in uncertain times — powered by your best asset, your brain.
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Learn MoreA live look at Marco on stage — the ideas, the energy, and the audiences that leave rooms thinking differently about what's possible.
I invited Marco to work with my team at Suominen because we wanted to challenge ourselves to think differently about growth in a mature manufacturing business. Marco has a rare talent for helping teams rethink how they create value and accelerate growth. Whether through cultivating an innovator's mindset, leveraging new technologies like AI, or uncovering insights others overlook, he inspires organizations to move beyond incremental improvement and take their business to the next level.
Marco is a brilliant creative partner. Teams reporting to me have worked with Marco Polo, and the output has been nothing short of impressive. He has a distinct gift for crafting premium lifestyle brands and isn't afraid to innovate, as seen by his forward-thinking integration of AI into his marketing practices. If you want a creative powerhouse who understands where the industry is heading, Marco is your person.
What makes Marco so unique is that he doesn't just study trends — he lives them. He has an incredible instinct for spotting patterns and staying ahead of the curve, and that forward-thinking mindset is reflected in his lifestyle and how he shows up every single day. On top of his sharp, highly competitive drive to deliver the absolute best, Marco is a genuinely kind, wonderful human being. It's rare to find someone who balances high-level vision, fierce competitiveness, and true empathy so effortlessly. He is a phenomenal leader and an even better person.
The Marco Polo team has been a critical partner on several key brand initiatives. Now, with the integration of AI into its processes, we see a shift from AI as a shortcut to AI as a multiplier for human judgment. The Innovator's Mindset and Human+ framework give our marketers a language for moving fast without losing the insight-driven thinking that actually drives growth.
I thought I knew my business. Why wouldn't I? I'd been at it nearly two decades. You think you know what people want and how you should speak with them… connect to them. What I learned from Marco was an entirely new language. Charged. But natural. I learned about myself and then how to connect that authenticity to others. It's part ethos but it is also learning from his structure of understanding/insight that continues to carry me forward, meeting my purpose. Learning what drives you is a mountain worth climbing with Marco.
Marco and his team have built a top-tier method for harnessing available insights and manifesting them into amazing innovation opportunities. Their strategic inputs opened our organization's eyes to new avenues of future-back growth.
I'd like to thank Marco Marsan for speaking to our Retail Management class. Marco spoke to the class about the collection of variables that make up good ideas: the consumer voice, reasons to believe, and cultural drivers. In business it's awesome to work with people you really, really like. Marco, it's great to collaborate again.
I invited Marco to work with my team at Suominen because we wanted to challenge ourselves to think differently about growth in a mature manufacturing business. Marco has a rare talent for helping teams rethink how they create value and accelerate growth. Whether through cultivating an innovator's mindset, leveraging new technologies like AI, or uncovering insights others overlook, he inspires organizations to move beyond incremental improvement and take their business to the next level.
Marco is a brilliant creative partner. Teams reporting to me have worked with Marco Polo, and the output has been nothing short of impressive. He has a distinct gift for crafting premium lifestyle brands and isn't afraid to innovate, as seen by his forward-thinking integration of AI into his marketing practices. If you want a creative powerhouse who understands where the industry is heading, Marco is your person.
What makes Marco so unique is that he doesn't just study trends — he lives them. He has an incredible instinct for spotting patterns and staying ahead of the curve, and that forward-thinking mindset is reflected in his lifestyle and how he shows up every single day. On top of his sharp, highly competitive drive to deliver the absolute best, Marco is a genuinely kind, wonderful human being. It's rare to find someone who balances high-level vision, fierce competitiveness, and true empathy so effortlessly. He is a phenomenal leader and an even better person.
The Marco Polo team has been a critical partner on several key brand initiatives. Now, with the integration of AI into its processes, we see a shift from AI as a shortcut to AI as a multiplier for human judgment. The Innovator's Mindset and Human+ framework give our marketers a language for moving fast without losing the insight-driven thinking that actually drives growth.
I thought I knew my business. Why wouldn't I? I'd been at it nearly two decades. You think you know what people want and how you should speak with them… connect to them. What I learned from Marco was an entirely new language. Charged. But natural. I learned about myself and then how to connect that authenticity to others. It's part ethos but it is also learning from his structure of understanding/insight that continues to carry me forward, meeting my purpose. Learning what drives you is a mountain worth climbing with Marco.
Marco and his team have built a top-tier method for harnessing available insights and manifesting them into amazing innovation opportunities. Their strategic inputs opened our organization's eyes to new avenues of future-back growth.
I'd like to thank Marco Marsan for speaking to our Retail Management class. Marco spoke to the class about the collection of variables that make up good ideas: the consumer voice, reasons to believe, and cultural drivers. In business it's awesome to work with people you really, really like. Marco, it's great to collaborate again.
When we started Marco Polo in 1995, we were committed to "stacking the deck to create ideas that would ship." In time we saw that there are tons of variables that get in the way of a great idea actually going to market, so we started to develop additional tools powered by consumer-driven, brand-optimized innovation platforms and go-to-market plans — including strategy, content planning, and design.
That's what we do. We ship ideas to market, soup to nuts, in less time than all competitors — with gorgeous design and concise messaging that sells.
We are still stacking the deck.
Marco delivers keynotes, workshops, and executive off-sites for teams ready to think bolder, build faster, and lead with more humanity.