Founder & Chief Word Guy
SquarePlanet Presentations
With experience that goes back to elementary school, Brian Burkhart has been presenting and coaching for decades with sales people, sales teams, and executive leaders at some of the biggest, most important organizations on the planet including Google, Red Bull, Amazon, Northern Trust, McDonald’s, Discover, Jim Beam, Stryker, United Airlines, and Citibank.
Brian has prepped firms for TV’s Shark Tank as well as many authors, renowned personalities, TED speakers, and entrepreneurs around the globe.
For six years Brian was an adjunct lecturer at Northwestern University’s prestigious Farley Center for Entrepreneurship, and four years at the Illinois Institute of Technology. His first book, Stand for Something: The Power of Building a Brand People Authentically Love, was an Amazon #1 bestseller.
Brian is a die-hard fan of the beloved Chicago Bears, has traveled to six of the seven continents, is a collector of Japanese woodblock prints, and is a ceramic artist regularly found at his pottery wheel covered in mud.
