Kevin Lee | Speaker Profile

Kevin is Founding Partner for China Youthology, and a leading China Futurist and Consumer-centric Innovation Expert.  He is an executive consultant for marketing, innovation and purpose-driven brands with companies like Nike, Apple, P&G, BMW, L’Oreal, Danone, Intel, etc.

Featured speaking topics

The State of China’s Youth
Get up-to-date and a comprehensive overview of who is the next generation of China. Understand the key factors molding and shaping their identity, values, and aspirations. Get a perspective of where this highly important group of people is headed. Observe emergent behaviors and lifestyles that are defining and express this generation.

The Future of Retail & Customer Engagement
Get inspired by the ground-breaking customer experiences pioneered in China. What do they reveal to us about emergent customer values? And what has China found to be the winning principles & practices in its fierce retail market?

The Future of Digitization & Consumer Experience
What can we learn from China’s unique digital environment? How does this unique digital landscape spawn new digital experiences that reshape consumer expectations? What are the opportunities–and threats–we must be aware of emerging on the horizon of digital experience?

The Future of Luxury
China’s dominance of the global luxury market will remain a commanding force for years to come. Yet, China is not merely consuming luxury but already redefining it. What is China’s next generation showing us about where they are taking luxury consumption? What do we need to learn now in order to create value that fulfills their growing demand? How do we ensure we don’t stagnate in our innovation of premium value?

The Future of Branding
The next generation has different expectations for the role brands should play in their lives.  Let’s dive into what brands are working for them and why. How do we renew our understanding of branding, its value, and ultimately effective branding action that resonates into the future?

Secondary topics

Training: Personal Purpose & Finding Meaning in Life & Career
For Individuals & Employers – We see a whole generation quiet quitting and questioning career choices while businesses still hope to build the elusive team of passionate, vision-driven individuals. Whether individually or corporately, our futures begin with finding clarity in ourselves. Let’s explore what’s involved in this journey to clarity.

Training: Finding Insights that make effective & resonating content
As consumers become more diverse and fragmented, and media spending gets more expensive, marketers must focus on content effectiveness & relevance. Great content starts with great insights. This training reveals the cultural approach to insight generation that many leading brands have attributed to their communication success.

Speaker overview

Kevin is a frequent speaker, most notably at the Microsoft CEO Summit, Kellogg School of Business, Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, and more.

China Youthology is a leading consumer insights & innovation consultancy that offers China cultural foresight and deep human understanding to help purposeful businesses create value and meaning.

Outside of China Youthology, Kevin is the Founder of the Purpose Accelerator, a platform and program that helps individuals discover their personal purpose. He has spent years researching and working on Positive Psychology Education models for Parents, Families, and Networks-of-Families. 

Kevin is a Goalkeeper, in association with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, promoting and furthering the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in China.

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Organizations and event organizers can confidently hire this speaker to conduct keynotes and workshops about future trends across a diverse range of topics and in the following formats:

FormatDescription
Advisory callsDiscussion with your executives to answer specific questions on a topic, project or subject of choice.
Executive coaching One-to-one coaching and mentoring session between an executive and the selected speaker. Topics are mutually agreed upon.
Topic presentation (Internal) A presentation for your internal team based on a mutually agreed topic with content supplied by the speaker. This format is designed specifically for internal team meetings. Maximum 25 participants.
Webinar presentation (Internal) Webinar presentation for your team members on a mutually agreed topic, including question time. Internal replay rights included. Maximum 100 participants.
Webinar presentation (External) Webinar presentation for your team and external attendees on a mutually agreed topic. Question time and external replay rights included. Maximum 500 participants.
Event keynote presentation Keynote or speaking engagement for your corporate event. Topic and content can be customized to event themes. Includes one-on-one question time and participation in other event sessions if required.

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