MITCH MITCHEM
3X Founder | Speaker | Author
Destroying the systems of friction that take your time and money, while teaching you how to use AI in a way that gets real results.
10 million people over a career in entertainment, learning, & tech. Zero boring rooms. Real change that sticks. Mitch is a author and a speaker who makes your people become irreplaceable in uncertain times.
Part performer, part strategist, all human, all practical. Second City trained. Proven with different companies, professional sports teams, energy, & more. He hands your team the tools & mindset to win against the systems stealing their time, money, & focus.
They walk in curious & walk out dangerously excited.
What People Are Saying About Mitch
“600+ delegates. Outstanding opening keynote. Energy, authenticity, and stage presence that set the tone for the entire event. Attendees called it inspiring, energizing, and a highlight of their Pharma Forum experience."
— Lily Nagy, Conference Producer, Informa Connect / CBI“Mitch is an excellent speaker! The session I attended had people (including myself) staying more than 30 minutes after the session ended just to hear more from Mitch! His understanding of AI is powerful, and he presents it in a very interactive approachable way. Very engaging and great energy on stage!”
— Rachel Benedick, Chief Revenue Officer, MPI"Impressive."
- John Ferrer, Walt Disney “Loved it!”
— Charles Freeman, Orlando Magic“You brought a fresh perspective to a world in need of direction. As HR professionals, we’re always shaping and delivering messages and your insights provided valuable new tools. It was inspiring to see biases challenged, transparency rewarded and meaningful connections formed.”
— Lindsay Powers, Accounts, IMA"Perfect timing - we just started playing around with it to craft communications to clients. I loved the comment about how using AI can improve our everyday communication with people. Thank you."
Dottie S. - Hyatt Place Denver"This information is crucial. It allowed me to break out of a 10 year situation with my living situation and business. I'm so glad you exposed this group to AI in such a warm and approachable way!"
— Anthem F., Anthem and Aria“I have never witnessed something this powerful. He used language and even the cursing PERFECTLY. It rocked the house.”
— Justin Tomlin - Pharma Forum“This partnership with Mitch is about more than technology. It's about equipping our organization with meaningful tools that support our commitment to future innovation and long-term growth."
— Greg Feasel, President, Colorado Rockies“The information was incredibly helpful. I was honestly extremely tired coming into this and was engaged with all of the points that were brought. It brought awareness to the use of AI as a tool that can help us and not harm us.”
— Don S., Colorado Christian University“This was the most impressive and amazing AI presentation I have ever witnessed.”
— Eduardo Antonio, Sr Sales Exec (West Coast), Team Leader, Visit Lauderdale"It was the best keynote I've heard on AI, because it was easy to digest, fun, engaging and had an encouraging tone to it. It wasn't telling us how AI is going to replace us, it empowered us."
- Caleb Paull, Better Talent“I have attended countless presentations on it. This was the best, most engaging and most informative one I have ever been a part of.”
— Leonard Hoops, CEO, Visit IndyPRESENTATION TOPICS
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Enjoy the video samples below from Mitch’s recent Informa
Pharma Forum Conference keynote.
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This is for everyone who has been quiet during the AI conversation. The leader who is overwhelmed. The audience that thinks they missed the boat. The conference that needs a starting line, not a finish line. Mitch has walked rooms of every size through exactly this moment, and the message is always the same: you have not missed anything, you are right on time.
Your audience leaves with permission to begin, the language to use Monday, and the first three moves that take fear out of the room.
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Your AI initiative didn't crash. It froze. And the missing piece was never the technology, it was the human element you left out. And that is ok. Mitch will help.
In this high-energy keynote, Mitch Mitchem hands every leader in the room the universal reboot command, Control + Alt + Delete, and turns it into a roadmap out of the 95% of enterprise AI pilots that stall before they ever deliver. Part strategist, part performer, all human, Mitch reframes a stalled AI effort not as failure but as a wrong turn, then walks the audience through three moves to take back control, amplify their people instead of replacing them, and delete the friction that's been draining their best talent.
Audiences leave with a memorable framework they can act on Monday morning, the relief of knowing they're not behind, and a renewed conviction that the companies who win the next decade won't have the best AI. They'll have used AI to remind their people who they are.
Amplify, Not Automate.
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The Passion Principle: How to Win a Room That Won't Look Up
We surveyed over 37,000 people, humans. Nearly 80% said they felt passionless in life. Mitch Mitchem wants to fix that. Your people walk in heads-down, thumbs-up, half-present. Meetings blur together. Teams carry the same energy, none. The hardest thing in any organization today isn't talent or strategy, it's attention, and it's collapsing.
In this high-energy, audience-interactive session, Mitch Mitchem shows leaders why engagement broke and how to bring it back, then proves it live by turning the room itself into the most engaged space in the building. Drawing on his roots in improv at Second City, building an audience-interactive comedy show in Chicago, and his years in learning and development and tech, Mitch takes the audience on a journey of passion and engagement like they've never witnessed before.
Attendees leave understanding the one edge AI can't replicate: human passion, on purpose. They'll feel it, name it, and know how to recreate it with their teams, their customers, and each other.
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Most leaders are still asking "what can we automate?" However the ones with the most success are looking at the humans and asking "what can we amplify?" That single shift changes how AI is bought, deployed, and adopted across the workforce.
In this keynote, Mitch lays out the operating principle behind a his massive success rate with clients, the four steps that tell you which workflows to amplify and which to leave alone, and the language your humans can use immediately to actually get the results they have been promised with human skills and AI. -
The AI Experience Your Team Won't Shut Up About.
Imprompting is Mitch’s one-of-a-kind trademarked, wild, learning experience where improv comedy collides with AI prompt engineering.
The room, regardless of size, is a part of the show and compete head-to-head to build, challenge, and refine prompts under pressure in a high-energy funny format that feels like a game show and teaches like a masterclass.
It is the only experience of its kind in the world, and it is the most fun your team will ever have learning the most important skill of the decade.
Mitch does these for entertainment, keynote and big event workshops. -
From his newest book, Mitch will come in and teach you how to eradicate the useless friction of your business or in the lives of our attendees. Warning, this is a presentation with a great amount of useful cursing and high energy.
F* YOUR FRICTION
How to Fight Back Against The Systems Stealing Your Time and Money
by Mitch Mitchem (Author)
You're not crazy. You're not lazy. You're being robbed.
You will lose 730 days of your life to friction. Not traffic. Not your commute. Friction. The phone trees. The doom-loop apps. The subscriptions you can't cancel. The forms that exist for no reason. The "updates" that break everything that worked.
This isn't bad design. It's the business model.
It's built on purpose, to steal your time, drain your money, and wreck your sanity one polite little obstacle at a time. And the receipts are real: the FTC found that 76% of subscription sites and apps use dark patterns engineered to manipulate you. That's not a hot take. That's a finding.
In F*ck Your Friction*, Second City improv alum, three-time startup founder, and HIVE CEO Mitch Mitchem cuts through the corporate lies to show you why every modern "convenience" has become a con, and exactly how to fight back.
This book is your weapon. Inside, you'll get:
Fix It or F*ck It - the decision framework that ends paralysis in ten seconds flat.
The Six Friction Identifiers - how to spot the moment a company has quietly assigned you their job.
The AI Friction Killer - the only weapon that scales, if you use it right.
The Receipts - who profits from your wasted time, and why they'll never stop on their own.
The Reclaim - how to take back the hours, days, and years they've already stolen from you.
The Grandfather Test - five questions, thirty seconds, that cut through any corporate lie.
“This was not just a book. You interrupted something on the exact day I needed it, like a cosmic force. I cried, laughed, cursed, and cried some more. One line stopped me cold: ‘While you’re having committee meetings, your competitors are implementing solutions.’
I’ve lived that moment. Recently. Repeatedly. This book isn’t about the tool. It’s about how you use it, and why. Brilliant!
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MITCH MITCHEM
"Most AI keynotes leave audiences bored and flat.
Mine leave them inspired, excited, informed and dangerous on Monday morning.
Let's talk."
10 million people impacted
4,000 stages
3X Start Up wins
MEET MITCH’S COMPANY, HIVE
HIVE is the first AI built for the human element. The first to capture and preserve real human wisdom from the human experience, the first with proprietary dynamic memory that knows who you are and what each avatar is for, the first to let you share avatars privately with the people who matter, and the first AI not just telling you that you're right, but working to get it right.
This is the power of AI Powered By the Human Element, engineered for the way humans actually live now.

