Speaking & Workshops


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

Twenty years doesn’t just teach you what works. It teaches you what lasts.

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

Jerry Torgerson

  • 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.

Topics

  • Account management
  • Client relationships
  • Building trust
  • Creative partnerships
  • Winning and growing accounts
Rick Gledhill

Principal | Executive Creative Director

Rick Gledhill

  • 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.

Topics

  • Creative theory
  • Storytelling
  • Building anticipation
  • Creative leadership
  • Audience experience
Efrain Montañez

Principal | Executive Creative Director

Efrain Montañez

  • 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.

Topics

  • Design leadership
  • Creative systems
  • Visual storytelling
  • Creative direction
  • Building cohesive campaigns
Andrew Cook

VFX Supervisor & Producer

Andrew Cook

  • 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.

Topics

  • Executive producing
  • Creative operations
  • Workflow design
  • AI in production
  • Emerging technology
  • Large-scale production

Looking for something different?


King+Country is built around a diverse team of strategists, creatives, producers, technologists, and storytellers. If you’re looking for a topic beyond those listed above, we’d be happy to tailor a session around your audience and objectives.

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