Even though most of my work appears on paper or the screens, one of the most fulfilling parts of working with ideas is the chance to share and discuss them with groups of people.

I’ve spoken at institutions like the University of Toronto, for organizations like CUTC and YENYR, and led workshops for companies like Shopify and Flipp.

My work has been featured at outlets like Fast Company, The Fader, and The Globe and Mail.

My speaking topics:

An Introduction to Creative Doing

Life happens. People make changes in their vocation, education, and creative pursuits. They face the challenges of creative blocks, confusion and discouragement, and skill gaps or deterioration.

This speech provides a flexible framework to work with the chaos of life, and actionable tactics to create greater consistency, momentum, and to learn faster.

It is based on my book Creative Doing, as well as a series of articles that have been featured at The Next Web, Forge, and Fast Company, and read by over 300,000 people.

Here are some other outlets that have featured my work:

• “Why I Wrote a Book About Creativity,” at Human Parts
• Creative Doing, at Ideas Into Action
• “Finding Your Voice,” at Interintellect
• Creative Doing, at Infinite Loops
• “How to Take Creative Action,” at Every

High Output Creativity

“The chances are that in the course of his lifetime, the major poet will write more bad poems than the minor,” says poet W.H. Auden. This is an insight that we often forget about creative success; that when people attempt to make more hits, they also make more misses.

This speech aims to provoke thought on how to improve the creative process, by weaving together insights from the academic field of historiometry, artists in all fields, the changing landscape of technology, to show artists, freelancers, and entrepreneurs how they can improve their individual and team productivity amidst perpetual distraction and disruption.

Here is an outlet that has featured the ideas from this speech:

• “Why Quantity Leads to Quality,” at The Futur

What other people have said:

“Herbert has written one of the finest and most useful books on Creativity I have ever devoured. I was so enamoured, I invited him to speak to my McGill University MBA class. He was insightful, engaging and an upbeat presence…qualities that make him not just a notable speaking presence, but a pretty fine human being.”

Andy Nulman, Co-founder and CEO at Just For Laughs

Herbert Lui is an inspiring, multifaceted creative, who is able to provide direction and reassurance to all who seek to live a life of “doing.”  For those who find value in living a life in the arts, while also maintaining a presence in the corporate world, Lui shares valuable strategies of how creativity is an inherent component to all of life, and can be strengthened by giving attention to all sides of ourselves. Herbert Lui presents a valuable vision of how we can cultivate balance, joy, and meaning in all of our endeavors.

Jacqueline Jones LaMon, Author of What Water Knows