TBC GLOBAL

London, United Kingdom

London United Kingdom

Jon Burkhart started the world’s first blog dedicated solely to real-time marketing in 2010 and co-authored (with Grant Hunter) a book on real-time marketing called Newsjacking: The Urgent Genius of Real-time Advertising published by Thames & Hudson in April 2013. He builds real-time content labs in agencies  -- from designing the physical space to hiring staff to re-working approval processes. He also leads workshops for his own consultancy Real-time Content Labs and for British Design & Art Direction (D&AD). He's worked with clients like Adidas, Dove, Samsung, Sony and Philips and agencies like AKQA, Lean Mean Fighting Machine, iris, Cheil, Edelman, etc. 

WHO IS JON

“I energise leaders to be dynamic & different with presenting, pitching & storytelling.”
— Jon Burkhart

With decades of experience as a keynote speaker, copywriter & author, Jon helps brands grow by inspiring them to be more curious, quick, and clever with their content and adoption of new technology. His trademark is his Firecracker Storytelling™ framework, a four-step process that helps you stir your audience emotionally and motivate them to take action.

As the founder of TBC Global, a content marketing consultancy with a name that changes as often as a customer's opinion, Jon leads workshops, creates social media campaigns & writes copy for B2B & B2C clients. Tech, sport, travel, gaming, finance, pharma? He’s done them all!

Jon also wrote one of the 1st books on brands using social media Newsjacking and co-authored Hacker Maker Teacher Thief, a collection of essays on the future of creativity.

“A one-man crime wave in content, creativity and copywriting”
— Microsoft Director

Jon has inspired employees at many three-letter companies -- BMW, BBC, MTV, GSK. Some crazy-sounding names: Accenture, Deloitte, Uber, Google. Founder names: Adidas, Sainsbury’s, Cartier. City names: Bristol City FC, Bath Rugby.

He has spoken in 26 countries and was the 1st to speak at the world's largest technology & marketing fest SXSW 14 times in 14 years. Some of his other top gigs include Content Marketing World, MarketingProfs B2B, AdWeek, DMEXCO & Digital Summit.

Jon lives with a Shih Tzu called Elvis. He shares him with my wife & 2 kids, but he comes first.