Multiple Bestselling Author, New Economy Storyteller
New York, New York
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpassiak/
https://www.passiak.com/
David Passiak is a keynote speaker, innovator, futurist, and author of three books – Empower, Disruption Revolution, and Red Bull to Buddha. A former religion scholar who did Ph.D. studies at Princeton on “Great Awakenings,” his work focuses on building movements, co-creation, crowd-based innovation, and emerging business models that will reshape the global economy.
The BBC described David’s unique approach as “Innovating the digital world through traditional teaching.”
David spent 10 years in NYC primarily heading strategy for enterprise SaaS startups (Visible Technologies, Spongecell) across a portfolio of global brands. In 2010, he left his position as Senior Director at M80, a WPP agency where he led social media for Volkswagen, and bought a one-way ticket to Thailand to write his first book Red Bull to Buddha.
He has since written three books and traveled to 40 countries, including a year spent in Dubai serving as Head of Innovation and Research for Dubizzle, the sixth most visited site in the UAE and largest P2P marketplace in the Middle East. Today, David lives out of one suitcase, giving workshops and keynotes across aspiring “Silicon Valleys” of the world.
