Vance Crowe

Vance was in the Peace Corps in Kenya, teaching villagers how to prevent malaria, when a snake oil salesman stood on a box in the town square and out-competed him with a better story. The science was on Vance's side. The crowd went with the box. He has spent his career since figuring out why, and teaching others what he found.

That question carried him through the World Bank and on to Monsanto, where as Director of Millennial Engagement he was the public face of the most distrusted company in America during the height of the GMO controversy. Explaining the science did not work. Winning arguments did not work. What worked was getting genuinely interested in how the other side saw the world, and that became the foundation of everything he teaches from the stage.

He also hosts the Vance Crowe Podcast (487 episodes) and runs Legacy Interviews, a professional life story interview service.

What he speaks about

Eight themes, each built from the archive: groupthink and polarization, escaping information bubbles, economic uncertainty, rebuilding trust in attacked industries, conversation craft, legacy and memory, succession and knowledge loss, and change through windows.