Speaking & Workshops

Looking for a speaker for your conference, retreat, workshop, agency gathering, or team offsite?

For more than two decades, King+Country has helped some of the world’s biggest brands and entertainment companies launch ideas, build anticipation, and create experiences people remember.

Our team has navigated changing technologies, shifting audiences, evolving creative trends, and every new wave that’s promised to change the industry. We’ve learned when to adapt, when to challenge convention, and which principles never go out of style.

Whether you’re looking for a keynote, workshop, fireside chat, panel discussion, or private team session, we’d love to share what we’ve learned.

Jerry Torgerson

Principal | Executive Producer

  • English
  • Japanese

Jerry has spent more than two decades building trusted relationships between brands, agencies, and creative teams. His sessions focus on the human side of great client partnerships: earning trust, managing complex relationships, and helping creative work thrive long after the pitch is over.

Keynote Topics

Sessions cover account management, client relationships, building trust, creative partnerships, and winning and growing accounts.

Rick Gledhill

Principal | Executive Creative Director

  • American English
  • British English 🇬🇧

Rick has spent his career asking why creative work resonates. His talks explore the principles behind storytelling, anticipation, audience psychology, and the creative decisions that make ideas memorable.

Keynote Topics

Sessions cover creative theory, storytelling, building anticipation, creative leadership, and audience experience.

Efrain Montañez

Principal | Executive Creative Director

  • English
  • Spanish
  • Italian

Efrain brings a designer’s perspective to creative leadership, helping teams connect strategy, design systems, and visual storytelling into work that’s both thoughtful and effective. His sessions explore how great creative ideas become cohesive experiences.

Keynote Topics

Sessions cover design leadership, creative systems, visual storytelling, creative direction, and building cohesive campaigns.

Andrew Cook

VFX Supervisor & Producer

  • English
  • Python
  • JavaScript
  • C++
  • AI 😉

Andrew lives at the intersection of production, technology, and execution. His workshops explore how great producing brings order to complexity, how emerging technology is changing creative workflows, and how teams can deliver ambitious work without losing their sanity.

Keynote Topics

Sessions cover executive producing, creative operations, workflow design, AI in production, emerging technology, and large-scale production.