David Pearl

David Pearl is known as a highly engaging conference speaker and animator. He’s also, as founder of an international non-profit Street Wisdom, the inventor of the Walkshop, a fresh and highly engaging way to find creativity in even the most ‘ordinary’ urban street.

A performing artist by background, he was boy soloist at the Royal Opera House where he first sang with Placido Domingo at the age of 9. He has toured the world as an orchestral player, written for the great Stanley Kubrick, presented a music series on BBC2 and set up two mould-breaking opera companies.

In 1994, when one of the world’s leading service firms was looking for a radical new way to boost creativity they asked for David’s help. Two decades on he’s a creative confidante to the leaders of some of the world’s leading businesses helping them and the teams they lead to perform at new levels.

He is perhaps best known for the artful way he designs, orchestrates and animates high-stakes business events, his inspiring keynotes and accessible business books. Beyond business, his non-profit venture, Street Wisdom, transforms ordinary city streets into extraordinary learning zones. Founded in 2012 it’s already active in 18 countries. Meanwhile, David keeps his own performance skills honed in the knife-edge improvised shows of his company Impropera.

An engaging, funny and thought-provoking new keynote from David Pearl draws on his experience designing and leading high-stakes meetings around the world and includes tips and techniques to develop our experience skills and perceptions, particularly in finding the amazing opportunities hiding in plain sight.

David then sets up a Walkshop that is delivered with a combination of live facilitation and specially pre-recorded audio-guide which takes place in the grounds/surrounding areas of the conference venue. Whether delivered in-person, hybrid or online, everyone is on their feet out and about in the real world. Learning how to harness their everyday environment to help them make better decisions, boost creative thinking and develop team connections. This provides a unique experience for each participant – at scale. David has delivered successful events using this format for 900+ participants.