A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Building &
leading the
empathetic organization.
Most of us experience fleeting moments of real empathy that challenge us to be better.
But how do we scale that empathy across teams, organizations, and societies to improve performance, innovate, and impact the people and world around us?
What would it look like if you could do empathy well—not just occasionally, but continuously? Would your people have better insight into customers? Would they build new networks, mitigate risk, and realize new kinds of opportunity?
This is the great potential of empathy: It offers a clear, human, and scalable way to improve our organizations.
A respected advisor to branders, consultants, and leaders, David has rare insight into the ways that organizations achieve greatness and demonstrate their brand in meaningful ways. And he’s passionate about the things each of us can do to create powerful brands that resonate.
Using candid stories, practical models, and personal take-aways, David shares his experience working with leaders and teams to harness the incredible potential of empathy as an operating model, to build momentum, and to create deeply meaningful brands.
A KEYNOTE PRESENTATION
Building & leading the empathetic organization
In this powerful keynote presentation, Building & Leading the Empathetic Organization, David inspires leaders at all levels to see empathy as a competitive advantage and scale it beyond individual action.
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For marketing leaders, he emphasizes strategic empathy as a concrete way to demonstrate and strengthen brand.
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For talent and culture leaders, he underscores its capacity to influence culture and as a practical approach to fostering diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
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For client-focused leaders, he speaks to its impact on customer relationships, market insight, and innovation.
David outlines the things we can all do to build and lead in a strategically empathetic organization—practical ways to engage and understand customers at a deeper level, inform innovation, and improve performance.
He draws on observations and learnings from deep experience advising companies as well as in-depth conversations with prominent leaders, from a prince and a priest to corporate and non-profit leaders and respected leadership educators.
In this talk, David shares work published in the Brytemoore Notes. He offers a powerful operating mindset—a new way of seeing our role as leaders within an organization—and a practical model for consistently improving performance.
ABOUT
Brander. Photographer. Editor. Speaker.
David’s work draws on a unique range of accomplishments: He’s advised CEOs on brand and strategy, taken portraits in war-torn Sri Lanka, led marketing for healthcare, consulting, and music companies, and published a print-only magazine that’s capturing the attention of leaders around the world.
Named a “Brand Champion of the Future,” David’s perspective on the ways we impact the people and world around us is personal and deeply compelling. Respected for his candid and empathetic approach, he's inspired leaders and groups at Columbia University, The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, Canada’s MaRS Discovery District, the American Association of Naturopathic Physicians, and countless companies. He draws on insight into how companies build momentum as well as in-depth conversations with wise people as diverse as princes and priests, government and corporate leaders, educators and entrepreneurs.
As founder of the Brytemoore Group and editor of the Brytemoore Notes, a limited-run print journal for leaders, David combines research, strategy, story, and experience to help leaders transform their brands—and themselves—with humanity and optimism. In his work and talks,
he focuses on practical ways of building meaning and the importance of doing as well as saying.
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I run the world’s leading company in expertise marketing, and David stands out among experts.
He brings a uniquely curious and generous style, pushing us to think in ways that make us a better company and better leaders. I’d put him in front of any room where I wanted to challenge and inspire people."
Peter Evans
Founder & CEO
ExpertFile
TESTIMONIALS
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I advise professional speakers all the time, and David’s got a rare gift for engaging people and sparking deeper discussions in a group.
I've had David speak to my strategic communication classes a number of times. He’s practical, engaging, and
shares real-world stories that drive home insights.
The students love his candor, and I always walk away inspired by his approach and observations.
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Jesse Scinto
Lecturer
Columbia University
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I've relied on David to share complex ideas concisely and passionately with hundreds of people at events and with leaders in the boardroom.
His vision of leadership, moral courage, and the ways we can change the world is always practical and inspiring.
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Leora Kahn
Founder & Executive Director
PROOF: Media for Social Justice
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I speak professionally on brand, social marketing, and the value of authentic relation-ships, and David's one of the people who inspires me.
We first met on a panel in front of a set of top-tier CMOs—an amazing session!
When he’s in a group, I know I’m in good shape: His questions start great discussions. I value the time I spend with him.
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Ted Rubin
Speaker / Author / Provocateur