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Jay Acunzo

Jay Acunzo

Speaking & Messaging Strategist

In-Person Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
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Traveling from:
Massachusetts
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Jay Acunzo

Speaking & Messaging Strategist

In-Person Fee Range:
$15,001 - $20,000
Fee Details
Virtual Fee Range:
Inquire for Fee
Traveling from:
Massachusetts

Why Book

  • He has held multiple leadership positions at high-growth tech startups
  • He created the award-winning podcast, Unthinkable
  • He co-founded Boston Content, the northeast’s largest community of content creators and marketers

Biography

Jay Acunzo believes in the power of resonance over reach. He helps business leaders differentiate easier and resonate deeper by becoming stronger speakers and storytellers. After working for brands like Google and HubSpot, he wrote the book Break the Wheel about the problems with “best practices” and toured globally as a keynote speaker. His journey as a speaker has been featured in 3 different books, and each year, dozens of creators and entrepreneurs turn to him to craft better messaging and speeches. He’s hosted podcasts for exciting startups, directed docuseries for scaling brands, and advised creative companies like Mailchimp, Wistia, and Salesforce. Learn from Jay every week through his podcast How Stories Happen and his newsletter Playing Favorites.

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Programs

Resonance over Reach: How to Stop Chasing Attention and Become The One Buyers Seek

Too much marketing feels like shouting into the storm, hoping to be heard, but when you meet the strongest communicators and storytellers, it feels like they could whisper and people care, share, and buy. What are they doing differently?

They don’t market more. They matter more. They develop and deliver their ideas to resonate, because resonance drives revenue (yes, even more than reach).

In this inspiring keynote, Jay Acunzo will show your attendees how to stop chasing attention and become more highly sought. They’ll learn how to stop running on the hamster wheel, escape the Commodity Cage, and become the one others pick, stick with, and refer.

Are you ready to resonate?

In this session, Attendees learn:

  1. A framework to increase the impact of any idea

  2. How to differentiate from peers without spending more

  3. Techniques to combine expertise with storytelling to drive action

Clarity Creates Customers The Hidden Frameworks Business Leaders Use to Turn: Their Expertise into messages that move the market

The journey from scattered thinking to succinct message can feel agonizing, but we’ve all met people and teams who communicate to the world with such clarity, they have an easier time growing.

How can we achieve that level of powerful clarity too?

In this powerful session, Jay Acunzo helps attendees bridge the gap between endless ideas and a single, powerful message capable of moving the market. The audience will shift their perspective around what it really takes to achieve clarity in their stories, messages, marketing, and even 1:1 interactions, and they’ll walk away with practical techniques they can apply immediately.

Brevity gets buyers. Repeatability drives revenue. Clarity creates customers.

In this session, attendees learn:

  1. How to move from scattered thinking to a focused, market-moving Big Idea

  2. A framework for turning your expertise into ownable intellectual property

  3. Techniques to customize your message across your public platform and buyer types

Humanity’s LLM: How To Tell Stronger Stories Built to earn trust and spark action in a Bot-Driven world

People and AI both rely on LLMs as their foundations. AI has large language models, but people have something else—and it’s the source of all our strongest stories.

Whether you want to align your team or hire top talent, earn trust with a prospect or keep an existing customer happy (and ready to refer you to others), it’s your storytelling which accelerates trust, affinity, and action.

In this fast-paced, inspiring talk, Jay Acunzo will take attendees inside the techniques used by the world’s most gripping storytellers and translate their methods for the world of work. Your audience will learn the difference between good and effective stories, so they can earn trust and spark action, no matter where they communicate, and they’ll walk away ready to compete on the impact of their words, not the volume of their marketing.

Attendees will learn:

  1. How to differentiate your story so it cuts through the noise

  2. Techniques to wield your own humanity as a powerful source of ideas in an AI-flooded world

  3. A simple system to transform yourself and/or your team into beloved communicators and trusted voices

Speaking as a superpower: How to Develop and Deliver Exceptional talks and presentations for any audience or stakeholder

In this practical, powerful session, Jay Acunzo draws on his decade-plus experience as a professional keynote speaker, team leader, and public speaking coach to help attendees become a stronger speakers.

Your audience will walk away empowered to develop and deliver better talks to bigger crowds, give stronger presentations in closed rooms to teams and stakeholders, or merely use their voices to greater effect everywhere they need to communicate, teach, inspire, and lead.

In this session, Attendees learn:

  1. A repeatable structure to develop presentations with less stress and greater impact.

  2. The 3 missing elements in most presentations and how to wield them

  3. How to ensure people lean in, take notes, and take action when you speak

Jay Acunzo Reviews

“Jay is among the top speakers at Content Marketing World every year…each time we ask him back, the scores come back better and better. An original thinker and dynamic presenter, Jay is becoming one of the “must-see” speakers at any marketing and communication event.”

— Content Marketing Institute

“Jay’s presentation was perfect for our modern B2B marketing team. He put forethought in to understanding our team and creating a presentation to fit the context of our marketing off-site. We could not be more pleased with the outcome and content today and would have Jay back in a heartbeat!”

— Blackbaud

“Jay’s was the best session I’ve ever attended in my 25 years of conferences! (I grew up watching my parents do keynotes.) I had so much energy and aspiration walking out of there!”

— Marketo Marketing Nation Summit

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