Richard Brehm has a 30-year career in the entertainment industry, working in diverse capacities including marketing executive at Universal Pictures, development executive, screenwriter and most recently as writer and producer of documentaries for film and television.  His documentaries have aired on Netflix, Disney+, NatGeo, NBC, HBO, A&E, History, Syfy and many others.  He has extensive experience working in family entertainment, including as executive producer of the 8-hour series, Creating the World of Harry Potter for Warner Bros.

Soft Skills / Hard Results 

Empathy and Storytelling in the Age of AI and Restructure

This may be soft skills, but it's a hard talk - about the two oldest technologies that still run everything: empathy and storytelling. This session reframes office politics as narrative power and shows you how to ethically build influence, manage up, and protect your team. Without selling out your soul.

From Silence to Signals

What Global Data Reveals About the Real Drivers of Creative Performance

The challenge:

Creative Operations are under mounting pressure to do more with less.

Bad response:

Cut costs.

Better response: 

Pursue empathy not efficiency.

What Signals has found:

How Creative Teams Thrive Between Process and Possibility

The challenge:

In the space where creativity, structure, and machine intelligence collide, how do you protect creative magic while evolving the method?

The need:

Creative Operations must navigate a high-stakes balancing act: embracing technology and data without dimming the creative flame; building scalable systems that don’t smother the soul of the work.