From the stage, to the studio, to YouTube, Joey inspires creative professionals and consultants to achieve their full potential.
Joey Tackett is an award-winning Creative Director, Entrepreneur, Content Creator & Speaker, who helps burnt-out creative professionals create a thriving career that achieves their full potential and prioritizes mental health.
Just a few years ago, Joey was successful in the eyes of society but was horribly unfulfilled in his career. For 24 years, he had been leading high-profile creative pitches and brand launches for mega brands, though in the background, he was crippled with anxiety and running on fumes because of self-inflicted demands and corporate-culture pressures.
He had reached the dreaded burnout that so many creative professionals end up in way too often.
By going deep to dramatically change his mindset and his approach to creative leadership, he turned his career around from the inside out to go to the next level of success and personal fulfillment.
As a result, his pitches and presentations became more impactful and he and his teams produced some of the best creative work of their careers.
He now coaches other creative professionals to create a thriving career that promotes positive mental health and positions them as highly-effective leaders.
Joey coaches people through his Be Something Awesome Podcast, Creative Director Studio Youtube channel, and using his Speak With Wow public speaking method, in addition to being interviewed on top Podcasts within the creative and professional development space.
Joey speaks
about
transformational
topics.
Joey regularly speaks from his expertise in these areas:
Presenting With Confidence and Persuasion
Selling Creative With Client-focused Pitches
Becoming an Effective Creative Leader
Building Amazing Brands
Thinking Like Your Client
Joey grabs
attention and
motivates.
Joey has led brand strategy and creative projects for 1,000s of clients across the corporate, nonprofit, museum and government spaces.
He has wowed audiences from board rooms to stages with his captivating presentation style and honest motivation.
have to say about the experience.
Featured in Forbes
How To Get Better Work From Your Designers
“I’ll know it when I see it.”
That’s the dreaded sentence for any designer to hear from their project stakeholder — usually a client, project manager, their CEO, or worse, from their own creative director.
The “it” they are casually referring to is actually something quite serious.
The "it" is the “solution.” It is the winning design – the holy grail of their big marketing initiative.
Their success likely hinges on the designer finding this elusive “it.”
Read the full article in Forbes
How to Pitch & Sell Creative
Joey and Dan Englander discuss how to effectively sell creative engagements and how to wow clients in a recent episode of the Digital Agency Growth Podcast.
How to Create Power Partnerships with Account Managers
Joey and Jenny Plant discuss how everyone in the agency wants the same thing: to wow clients and overdeliver. He presents tangible ways to create highly-effective working relationships between designers and account teams in a recent episode of the Creative Agency Account Manager Podcast.
Be Something Awesome.
The podcast for creatively-driven.
Get unblocked and achieve your full potential by hearing Joey's immersive stories and honest takes on the biggest challenges and opportunities facing creative professionals.
Listen on Apple Podcasts
Joey teamed up with fellow award-winning Creative Director, Corey Jones,
to create the Creative Director Studio YouTube Channel
Joey interviews the Smithsonian National Museum
of African American History & Culture's event team about their
groundbreaking event, A Seat at the Table
But, you know you can truly thrive and be filled with inspiration and confidence.
In this complimentary virtual coffee, we will dig into what has you stuck and identify some immediate next steps to help you go from feeling stuck to thriving. See you on Zoom!