Mitch Mitchem

Adapt to Anything.

Learn to create certainty inside uncertainty, make better decisions faster, and perform at your best under pressure.

High-Energy Entertainment Expert and Keynote Speaker on Adaptability & Leadership, Second City-Trained Improviser, Author, and Business Leader.

Performed alongside Jimmy Buffett• The Beach Boys• Ziggy Marley• *NSYNC• Britney Spears
10,000,000+ People Moved
3 Decades Onstage
4,000+ Presentations
12 Countries
The New Rules Live · Live online

The Future of AI and Humans

Live online. Join from anywhere. A hands-on morning with Mitch Mitchem. Learn what AI agents are, build them live, and keep your human edge while you do it.

  • Monday, November 9 · 9:30 AM to 1:30 PM Eastern
  • Live on Zoom · join from your office, your home, or with your team
  • VIP coaching with Mitch · 25 spots
  • Keep the decisions humanHow to use AI without letting it make your decisions: where judgment stays with people, and when to trust or override AI.
  • AI agents, built liveWatch them go from 1 to 20+ live, then build your own.
  • Take-home build guideLeave with the steps to keep building after the workshop.
Mitch Mitchem leading a room of professionals in Denver Mon Nov 9 · Live online
Signature Session · 60 to 90 Minutes

Decision Heist™

Where AI, improv, and the future collide.

Three people from your audience. One new AI boss. One business decision that starts going delightfully off the rails. Decision Heist™ is a wildly funny, live exploration of judgment, leadership, accountability, and the moment a room quietly hands the decision away.

  • Live and interactive
  • Powered by Imprompting™
  • In-person experience
Can AI pull off the Decision Heist™, or does it still need us?
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Meet Mitch

Hi. I’m Mitch Mitchem.

I didn’t learn adaptability from a business book. I learned it because life kept changing the script.

I learned it as an actor and improv performer. I tested it on stages at Universal and on tour, sometimes in front of tens of thousands of people at a time. Across more than 4,000 presentations and 10,000,000 people, one truth kept proving itself: the room does not care what was supposed to happen. It only experiences what you do with what actually happened.

I was 22, building a show in Chicago, when entertainers who did not want me to succeed began killing the lights, cutting my microphone, and stopping the music while I was performing live. The audience did not know why it happened. They only knew the show had stopped, and they were waiting to see what I would do next.

So I went home after every show and learned to adapt. How do you hold attention without a microphone? Change the energy without music? Turn the interruption itself into part of the experience? Second City gave me the improvisational foundation. Those nights gave me the operating system.

I took it everywhere. To Universal Studios, to large conference facilitations, and the lesson did not stay on stage.

I used it in business when I built a dating app, through every reinvention that followed, and in the most personal parts of my life, including marriage and parenting. Different stakes. Different rooms. The same reality: you rarely control what happens next, but you can always decide how you use it.

The Use It Mentality
“Whatever happens, use it.”

Assume uncertainty. Find certainty on purpose. Control what you can. Use every available tool. Read the response, adjust, and keep going until you figure it out.

These are not entertainment techniques dressed up for business. They are hard-earned life lessons for staying clear, making decisions, and moving forward when the plan falls apart.

Read Mitch’s Story

Mitch turns uncertainty into the clarity, confidence, and momentum people need to move forward.

“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.”

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What People Are
Saying About Mitch*

From Disney to the Orlando Magic to Pharma Forum, here's what happens when the room remembers it's human.

"Impressive."

John Ferrer · Senior Sales Manager, Resort Sales, Walt Disney World Resort

"Loved it!"

Charles Freeman · President of Business Operations, Orlando Magic

"Mitch Mitchem was the highest rated speaker VISIT Denver has had in the last ten years."

Jason Lusk · Associate Vice President, Convention Sales, VISIT DENVER

"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

"I have never witnessed something this powerful. He used language and even the cursing PERFECTLY. It rocked the house."

Justin Tomlin · Pharma Forum

"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

"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

"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

"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 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 Indy

"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

"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

"The most impressive and amazing AI presentation I have ever witnessed."

Eduardo Antonio · Team Leader, Visit Lauderdale
The New Book From Mitch

F* Your
Friction

What to Say and Do When Systems and People Steal Your Time and Money

The phone trees. The subscription you can't cancel. The app that loops you back to the start. That isn't bad design, it's the business model. This book shows you how to fight back and take your time back.

★★★★★ This book doesn’t give you permission to play small. It gives you a mirror, and then hands you the courage to actually look into it. caja kelly, verified Amazon review

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F* YOUR FRICTION

The systems are stealing your time. The friction is costing you money. It's time to fight back.

The case for adaptability

The world will keep changing. Your people need to know what to do next.

Organizations do not have a shortage of information. They have a shortage of people who can stay clear, decide, and move when uncertainty becomes real.

Statistics name the problem. Mitch makes people experience the solution.
Mitch Mitchem
4,000+live presentations

The Mitch Mitchem difference

Not another speech about change.

Part keynote. Part entertainment. Part interaction. All practical.

Mitch gets inside the room, creates the conditions, and lets people feel the shift. They see how uncertainty changes behavior. Then they practice how to use what is happening, find certainty on purpose, make a decision, and keep moving.

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Find certainty on purpose.

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Make better decisions faster.

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Use what is happening.

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Keep moving until you figure it out.

People do not leave with notes they will never read. They leave having already used the tools.

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The AI Reboot

For when your company's AI effort stalled.

You bought the tools. Ran the pilot. And then nothing. The AI Reboot finds exactly where the momentum died and restarts the engine with a plan your people actually run.

Best for: Stalled rollouts, leadership, IT and ops. Vibe: Diagnostic, re-energizing, practical.

You bought the tools. Ran the pilot. And then nothing. The AI Reboot finds exactly where the momentum died and restarts the engine with a plan your people actually run.

94/100AI initiatives stall, Mitch names why
3frictions diagnosed live in the room
125,000+professionals trained on AI
The ExperienceA diagnostic jolt, not a pep talk

Mitch has been inside more AI rollouts than almost anyone alive, and he brings that pattern recognition into the room. He names the three frictions that quietly kill momentum, Process Friction, AI Friction, and Cultural Friction, and shows the audience exactly which one stalled them.

The TakeawayThe real reason it stalled, and the first moves back

Leadership almost always misdiagnoses the problem. The room leaves with the specific reason their effort stalled and the first three moves to bring it back to life, in language every department can act on Monday morning.

Where Mitch FitsFor the teams holding a rollout that lost its pulse

Leadership, IT, and operations staring at a pilot that went quiet. Every version is rebuilt around the specific tools, industry, and moment the organization is living through, so the plan fits the real rollout, not a generic one.

FormatRuntime and setup

60 to 90 minutes. Optional 30-minute Q&A on request. Virtual available.

The AI Reboot one-sheet (PDF)

Amplify, Not Automate

The operating system for human-AI teams.

A new anxiety has a name: FOBO, the Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Your audience is living inside the gap between the promise of AI and the fear of being replaced, and this is the talk that closes it.

Best for: Leadership summits, whole-org, conferences. Vibe: Signature, strategic, soul and system.

A new anxiety has a name: FOBO, the Fear of Becoming Obsolete. Your audience is living inside the gap between the promise of AI and the fear of being replaced, and this is the talk that closes it.

60%of workers believe AI will eliminate more jobs than it creates this year
13%of organizations report performing significantly better because of AI
94/100AI initiatives are failing right now, Mitch names the real reason
The ExperienceWhat the audience experiences

Mitch reads the room before he says a word, a skill built over three decades of live performance. He moves between data, story, live demonstration, and direct audience engagement until the room becomes present in a way that surprises people who have sat through a hundred corporate keynotes.

The TakeawayWhat the audience walks away with

A clear framework for their role in an AI-enabled world, practical steps they can use Monday morning, and a completely different relationship to the word automation. Plus the rare feeling of having been in a room where something actually shifted.

Where Mitch FitsBuilt from scratch for your room, never recycled

Every talk is built for your specific audience and updated through the morning of the event. Mitch does not recycle keynotes. What he says on your stage will not be what he said anywhere else, because the framing is built around what is happening this week, not last year.

FormatRuntime and setup

60 to 90 minutes standard. 120 minutes with a 90-minute keynote and 30-minute Q&A. Virtual and Hybrid available.

Amplify, Not Automate one-sheet (PDF)

Decision Heist™

Where the future meets the funny.

Decision Heist™ is Mitch Mitchem's signature interactive keynote. Live collaboration with AI, business improvisation, audience participation, and experiential learning turn spectators into participants - and decision paralysis into a lesson the room discovers together.

Best for: Leadership conferences, annual meetings, innovation summits, executive retreats. Vibe: Funny, fast, interactive, consequential.

Where the Future Meets the Funny.
Signature Interactive Keynote. In-Person Only.

The most memorable conversations about AI do not begin with a presentation. They begin with an experience.

Decision Heist™ is Mitch Mitchem's signature interactive keynote. Live collaboration with AI, business improvisation, audience participation, and experiential learning turn spectators into participants. What starts as a hilarious business scenario becomes a live exploration of decision paralysis, leadership, judgment, accountability, and the uniquely human capabilities that create value in the age of AI.

It concludes with a facilitated debrief that turns what the room just experienced into insights they can apply Monday morning, leaving everyone with one question they will not stop asking each other: When did the room quietly hand the decision away?

10-10,000audience size
60-90minutes, including the facilitated debrief
0spectators - the room helps decide what happens
What It IsA live decision laboratory disguised as a great show

Mitch puts three audience members onstage with a new boss: an AI that is about to complicate everything. The comedy is the delivery system. The leadership is the payload. The humans prevail, collaborate, or collapse, and the room helps decide which.

The Lasting MessageSpot the Decision Heist™ before it happens

Decision paralysis is the invisible problem slowing organizations everywhere. AI did not create it; AI amplifies it. The organizations that lead the future will use AI to strengthen human judgment instead of surrendering it.

Your Audience Leaves WithInsight they can use Monday morning

They learn how decision paralysis takes hold, how to catch the moment human judgment gives way to overthinking or AI-generated recommendations, and which leadership behaviors create clarity, confidence, accountability, and momentum when decisions matter most.

Why It Stands Apart
  • The lesson is discovered, not told. The room experiences decision paralysis firsthand, which is why it sticks.
  • Never the same show twice. The business challenge, interaction, and decisions evolve live for the audience in the room.
  • They leave talking about themselves, not about Mitch. Organizations recognize their own leadership dynamics and decision habits inside the experience.
  • Serious insight, unforgettable delivery. Complex AI concepts land for technical and non-technical audiences because people experience them instead of simply hearing about them.
Built for Your RoomTailored to your organization

Every performance is tailored to the organization's language, business environment, industry, strategic priorities, and meeting objectives. It is ideal for leadership conferences, annual meetings, corporate conferences, executive retreats, innovation summits, sales kickoffs, customer events, learning and development programs, AI strategy events, and executive education.

FormatRuntime and setup

60-90 minutes, including the facilitated debrief. In-person only. Designed for audiences of 10-10,000 with standard keynote presentation support, projection or LED display, presentation audio, reliable Wi-Fi, and audience microphones recommended for facilitated participation.

Decision Heist™ one-sheet (PDF)

ADAPT!

Create certainty inside uncertainty.

The plan will change. ADAPT! shows leaders and teams how to create certainty inside uncertainty, make better decisions faster, use what is happening, and perform at their best under pressure. Part keynote, part entertainment, part interaction, and all practical.

Best for: Leadership conferences, annual meetings, transformation events, teams navigating change. Vibe: High-energy, interactive, practical, immediately useful.

Create Certainty Inside Uncertainty.
High-Energy Interactive Keynote

The plan will change. The question is what your people will do when it does. ADAPT! gives leaders and teams a practical operating system for staying clear, deciding, and moving when uncertainty becomes real.

183%increase in the rate of business change since 2019
62%say the pace of change at work increased in one year
39%of core skills are expected to change by 2030
What The Room ExperiencesA live adaptability lab disguised as a great keynote

Mitch uses story, humor, audience interaction, and real-time decisions to make people feel the pressure, see their choices, and practice what to do next. Part keynote. Part entertainment. Part interaction. All practical. The lesson is experienced, not merely explained.

The Use It MentalityWhatever happens, use it

Assume uncertainty is present. Find it. Expose it. Interrupt the pattern. Use every available tool. Read the response, adjust immediately, and keep moving until you figure it out. This is the operating system Mitch built across three decades of live stages, business, leadership, and life.

What The Audience Walks Away WithTools already practiced in the room

People learn to create certainty on purpose, make better decisions faster, use what is happening instead of fighting it, and perform at their best under pressure. They do not leave with notes they will never read. They leave having already used the tools.

The ADAPT! Operating System
  • Assume uncertainty is present. Do not wait for the plan to break before paying attention.
  • Find it and expose it. Name what everyone can already feel.
  • Interrupt the pattern. Change the state before trying to change the thing.
  • Use every available tool. Test, read the response, and adjust in real time.
  • Keep moving. Create enough certainty to take the next useful step.
Built For Your RoomCustomized to the audience and the moment

Every version is rebuilt around the organization, industry, pressure points, and meeting objectives. Ideal for leadership conferences, annual meetings, sales kickoffs, culture and transformation events, executive retreats, and teams navigating rapid change.

FormatRuntime and setup

60 to 90 minutes. Optional extended interactive workshop or facilitated Q&A. In-person, virtual, and hybrid formats available.

ADAPT! one-sheet (PDF)

The Passion Principle

The fire that makes people irreplaceable.

This is not a talk about enthusiasm or positivity. It is a keynote about passion as a professional human skill, the ability to connect to why your work matters, bring that into the room, and make the people around you feel it too. It wakes a room up and sends them back into the world on fire.

Best for: Kickoffs, culture resets, reconnect moments, closers. Vibe: Emotional, human-first, rousing.

How to Wake Up a Room and Send Them Back Into the World on Fire.

Where have we gone as humans? Not our bodies. Our heart, our soul, our energy. Where did it all go?

Not in one industry. In all of them. It is like we have lost the purpose of work and being human at the same time we lost the passion. So many of us are smiling, showing up, but not really there. This is occurring in relationships, on sales calls, at training events, and everywhere in between. We have let the human fire of energy, goals, and excitement die slowly, and then we wonder why humanity seems so miserable.

Mitch Mitchem closes that gap with the right message we all must hear and, more importantly, feel right now, combined with humor, energy, and his unique, deeply human entertainment prowess. Using music, interaction, fun, and laughter mixed with powerful learning, Mitch brings a room together and reminds them of themselves.

This is not a keynote about enthusiasm or positivity. It is a keynote about passion as a professional human skill. The ability to connect to why what you do matters, bring that connection into the room, and make the people around you feel it too. Mitch draws on his roots in improv at Second City in Chicago, his time as an entertainer creating the first audience-interactive musical comedy show, Comedy You Can Dance To, his years at Universal Studios Orlando, and work inside real organizations across every major industry to show exactly why passion fades and how to bring it back on purpose. Not when conditions are perfect. Not when someone else inspires you first. On purpose. Every time.

Then he proves it live. In your room. With your people. By turning the session itself into the most energized, connected experience your audience has ever had at an event.

10M+people Mitch has moved from the stage
3 decadesmastering the human element
Under 5 minto turn a room that does not want to be there
What The Audience ExperiencesInside the room

This is not a sit-and-listen keynote. From the first minute people are participating, reacting, and in many cases becoming part of the demonstration itself. Mitch reads the room before he says a word, establishes connection fast, and the energy builds from the opening second and does not drop. People who walked in going through the motions walk out genuinely fired up about their life, their work, and the team they are returning to. That does not happen at most conference sessions, and it is because Mitch has spent three decades mastering what produces it. The Human Element.

What The Audience Walks Away WithThe takeaway

A completely different relationship to the word passion. Not as something that happens to you when everything lines up, but as something you generate on purpose. The ability to walk into any room, any sales call, any project, any client conversation, and generate the kind of energy that moves people forward. And the personal experience of having felt it themselves, which is the only way to teach this that actually works.

Where Mitch Fits
  • Mitch does not talk about passion. He produces it in the room in real time. The audience does not hear an argument for why it matters, a list of reasons to examine passion, or psychobabble about it. They need to feel the passion. They experience what it feels like when someone walks in already connected to why what they are doing matters and makes every person in the room feel that same connection. That experience reminds people what it felt like when they cared deeply and shows them the path back.
  • Mitch rebuilds this talk completely for every single audience. A sales team gets a version about why their belief in the work closes more business than any technique ever will. A leadership team gets a version about leading people who have quietly disconnected from the mission. A mixed professional audience gets a version that speaks to every role in the room simultaneously. The stories, the live demonstrations, and the applications are rebuilt fresh every single time. No recycled content. No generic delivery.
  • Mitch makes every other session on your agenda land differently. When an audience has been genuinely reconnected to why they do what they do as humans, they engage with everything that follows through a completely different lens. They are not processing information anymore. They are looking for ways to apply it to work they actually care about again.
  • Mitch turns the slot every planner dreads into the moment everyone talks about. Post-lunch. Day two afternoon. Right after something heavy that ran long. Mitch has spent twenty years in live entertainment learning how to read a room that does not want to be there and turn it around in under five minutes. The rest of the day feels completely different because of it.
  • Mitch creates genuine human energy in a room full of people who forgot they were capable of it. Not the data. Not the slide. The moment someone in your audience felt something real and thought I needed that. That is the moment they tell people about. That is the moment that brings them back next year. Mitch creates it every single time he steps on a stage.
  • Works for any audience at any level in any industry. Sales teams. Leadership groups. Customer experience professionals. HR and people teams. Healthcare workers. Event and hospitality professionals. Entrepreneurs. Educators. Anyone who ever cared deeply about something and gradually stopped feeling it as intensely as they once did. This talk meets every one of them exactly where they are and leaves them somewhere better.
FormatRuntime and setup

60-minute keynote or 90-minute breakout with extended audience interaction. Optional 30-minute Q&A available upon request. Virtual available.

The Passion Principle one-sheet (PDF)

The Future-Ready Workforce

AI Gave Everyone
A Director's Chair.
Did It Make Them Better?

Telling technology what to do can create output. It does not automatically create judgment, adaptability, communication, or leadership.

The organizations that win will not be the ones with the most AI tools. They will be the ones whose people can frame the right problem, make better decisions, pivot when conditions change, present ideas clearly, and work together toward the outcome.

Mitch builds workforce development strategies that put people back in charge of the technology and bring the entire organization forward together.

Mitch Mitchem speaking on stage
5 capabilities developed as one integrated workforce strategy.
The Workforce Strategy

Five Capabilities. One Future-Ready Workforce.

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Direct The Technology

Use AI deliberately. Frame stronger problems, give clearer direction, verify the work, and connect output to a real outcome.

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Adapt In Real Time

Read changing conditions, create certainty on purpose, and keep making progress when the script changes.

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Pivot With Purpose

Recognize what is not working, change direction without panic, and protect momentum while the plan evolves.

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Present With Impact

Turn ideas into clear stories, communicate decisions, and move people from information to action.

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Lead The Human Work

Strengthen judgment, accountability, collaboration, curiosity, and the trust required to work well together.

Mitch Mitchem in conversation with Dave Ihrig

What if acting has been studying the human operating system?

In The Actor's Algorithm, the stage becomes a laboratory for something much larger: how memory, context, emotion and attention organize human behavior. This candid conversation explores coherence, the neuroscience of change, and what becomes more important about being human as AI grows more capable.

  • Coherence
  • Human behavior
  • Brain science
  • AI + creativity
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Coherence over performance

What makes behavior feel real is not the line itself, but whether it makes sense inside the relationship, history and context of the moment.

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Your past predicts your next move

The brain draws on prior experience to anticipate what will work now. Rehearsing a new response can create a new reference point, and a new option.

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AI raises a human question

When machines can imitate, analyze and generate, presence and wisdom matter more: not simply what we know, but how we choose to show up.

Knowledge is now basically free. Wisdom, to know what to do with$1it, is what matters.
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HIVE

AI Powered By The Human Element™

HIVE helps teams move beyond random experimentation and into practical AI enablement. We teach people to use AI with clarity, confidence, judgment, and purpose, inside the real work they do every day.

  • Human-centered AI enablement that removes friction, improves speed, and helps people do better work.
  • Practical skills for real work, from better questions and workflow design to evaluation and execution.
  • Human skills no machine replaces: communication, critical thinking, leadership, and judgment.
  • Custom-built programs and keynotes designed to keep the human element at the center of AI.
The Receipts

AI enablement that actually changes how people work.

125,000+ professionals trained on AI
97% implementation success rate
10M+ people moved by Mitch
12 countries reached

Your team is already using AI. The question is whether they are using it well.

The Human Future. One HIVE. Amplify, not automate.