Every company is trying to figure out how to build their brand, increase sales, and better leverage AI technology. Liven up your next conference, meeting or event with a customized talk on marketing, branding, and innovation from Charlie and his bag of tricks.

His engaging, easy-to-understand style, content-rich presentations, and a healthy dose of humor ensure these aren’t boring lectures or business as usual. Your audience leaves with pages of new ideas in their heads, a spring in their steps, and the fire in their bellies rekindled.

Call 248-766-9994 or email charlie@curvedetroit.com and put your next event ahead of the curve.

Charlie’s talks generally center around AI for Business, Marketing, Branding, Creativity, Design, Innovation, and Leadership. Each session is available as a 30-minute summary, a one-hour lunch-n-learn or a two-hour seminar with full presentation and Q&A. Customized talks are always available.

The AI Accelerator: Supercharge Your SMB with AI
Big companies and tech startups are pouring billions into AI enhancements. But what about the rest of us? In The AI Accelerator, Charlie Wollborg delivers an electrifying, no-nonsense keynote that brings real-world AI tools and strategies to small and medium-sized businesses—boosting the bottom line without breaking the bank.

This isn’t your typical AI talk packed with futuristic jargon and head-scratching theories. Charlie combines real-world case studies, live demos, and actionable insights to show exactly how smart businesses—from solo shops to growing INC5000 companies—are using AI to save time, spark ideas, and outpace the competition. And like all of Charlie’s TEDx-style talks, it’s delivered with wit and wisdom—because learning is easier when you’re laughing.

No PhD required. No fear-mongering nonsense. Just practical, eye-opening ways to:

• Automate the busywork that’s dragging you down.
• Supercharge your creativity and problem-solving with AI as your sidekick.
• Outthink the competition with easy-to-use tools you already have access to.
• Walk away with the “AI cheat codes” you need to get started today—no consultants required.

No fear. No confusion. Just an hour of insights, laughs, and real-world strategies that will leave you with a head full of ideas, a belly full of fire, and a spring in your step.

Shiny Object! Brand Storytelling and Content Marketing for a Short Attention Span World
We’re living through the meh economy – the market is saturated with polite mediocrity. It’s time to wake up. It’s time to take a stand. It’s time to transform ourselves, our companies, and our causes. Your industry is due for a little upheaval. Seek out unsettling influences. Better yet: Be one.

Let’s be catalysts for passionate ideas. Let’s fill our purchase funnels, engage our prospects, and tell our brands’ stories. Let’s create big red Kool-Aid Pitchers of awesomeness that make our fans bust through walls and say, “Oh hell yeah!”

This talk is filled with practical tips and creative ideas to jumpstart your messaging and content:

• Find Your Edge. Designing your product, pitch or promotion to please everyone is the surest way to resonate with absolutely no one. The market is starved for brutally honest, hyper-focused and entertaining. It only takes a killer idea to break into a bored market.
• You are the front line of content quality. Don’t just post to post. Tell a story. Make it sparkle. Take a stand. Give it a twist. Humanize it. Sing it. Relate it. Feed our inner Cliff Clavin. Capture the moment. Find the beauty. Build the brand. Before you post it ask yourself one question: WIST “Would I Share This?”
• Achtung Baby! If you’re just going through the motions, you’ll be running around in circles. Your content should be a to-do. It’ need to be a ta-da! Love and hate will always be more powerful than a like.

Fight the PowerPoint! Creating & Delivering Killer Presentations That Put Your Ideas in Motion
Reading bullet points to your audience is cruel and, unfortunately, the usual punishment. Quit blaming PowerPoint for bad presentations – start improving your storytelling and design skills. You are a passion transference device! If you’re not excited about your ideas, there’s no way anyone else will be.

In this talk, Charlie moves beyond the tools to share tips and tricks for perfecting your pitch, creating arresting visuals, and grabbing the attention of a distracted audience. This talk is a must for entrepreneurs, sales people, and anyone who wants to push their ideas forward.

Goal! Making This Year Your Best Year Yet
How to be productive, positive and passionate at home, at work and at life.
There are two schools of thought when it comes to goal setting: “Getting Things Done” and “The Law of Attraction”. They’re both right AND they’re both wrong.

This isn’t a boring seminar or pep talk – it’s a roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty work sessions. Bring all of your big hairy audacious goals, over-flowing to-do-lists, and “someday I’ll” folders. Together, we’ll get control of your attention, tasks and projects while we breathe new life into our work.

Butterfly Thinking
Firing-up the innovation engine to transform our economy and the world.

The Virtue of Pissing People Off
Designing your product, pitch or promotion to please everyone is the surest way to resonate with absolutely no one.

Be the Brandividual
Top tips for building your personal brand and standing out in a crowded marketplace.

For more in-depth seminar descriptions or discuss a custom program for your company or event, please call 248-766-9994 or email charlie@curvedetroit.com.

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