Sean Tyson

Artist, Athlete, Business leader, Change Agent, Consultant, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Marketer, Musician, Producer, Project manager

Personal: Accomplished musician and athlete. Ferocious reader of The Economist. Professional: Over the last 15+ years Sean has led global marketing initiatives for an array of high-profile brands including Viacom, NBC Universal, Sotheby's International Realty and Goldman Sachs. Prior to joining Quietly he was the Director of Strategy & Business Development at Invoke Media where he drove innovative thinking for its products (including HootSuite) and its clients–in the process creating strategic partnerships with Facebook, Instagram and Apple. Formerly of WPP, Sean has worked in PR, Advertising, and Digital Marketing on four different continents and has been published both professionally and academically. He is a regular speaker/panelist on marketing, social media, seo, and publishing.

I am an ENFJ, and as a result I'm passionate about a lot of things. I'm fascinated by technology, content, music, art, politics, business, and how humans interact with all of that. That said, I'm particularly driven by "exchanges of value" in the study of marketing and I'm on a mission to shift the way organizations communicate with people.

Let's consider Canada as the official test tube for the reincarnation of journalism. Why? Because Canada is uniquely positioned to take journalism – and in particular, the concept of state-funded public broadcasting – to new heights, just as it did with the concept of peacekeeping in the 1960s.

Advertising, Audience Development, Change Management, Content, Marketing, Public Relations, Publishing, SEO, Social Media, Strategy, User Experience

My father attended back in the ‘90s with his good friend Richard St. John. He was already a huge source of inspiration to me, but his insights and stories from TED captured my imagination and served as my official gateway to thinking big and doing more. In other words, TED has been the genesis of my creative DNA and now I want to give back to the same community that gave so much to me. https://about.me/johnftyson

Lacrosse, snowboarding, and music. I captained the Dutch national lacrosse team for 8 years (yes, they have one!) and played in Top Less Gay Love Tekno Party (yes, that's the band name!).