Innovation

Expert

Amy Jo Kim

Amy Jo Kim, Ph.D. is an in-demand keynote speaker on rapid innovation, early product design, and cooperative gaming.

Attendees describe her presentations as “inspiring”, “mind-blowing” and “deeply educational”.

Popular speaking topics include:

Managing & Motivating Remote Teams
Mental Health for Startup Founders
Driving Retention with Game Thinking
Rapid Innovation for Product Leaders
Game Design Tips for Product Leaders
Collaboration and Cooperative Design
10X your Product/Market Fit
Better, Faster Customer Discovery
Rapid Prototyping with Story Beats

Named by Fortune as one of the top 10 influential women in games, Amy Jo Kim is a game designer, community architect, and innovation coach. Her design credits include Rock Band, The Sims, eBay, Netflix, nytimes.com, Ultima Online, Covet Fashion, & Happify.

Amy Jo has helped thousands of entrepreneurs & innovators bring their ideas to life through her coaching programs at gamethinking.io. She pioneered the practice of applying game design to digital services and is well-known for her books Community Building on the Web (2000) and Game Thinking (2018).

In addition to her coaching practice, Amy Jo teaches Game Thinking at Stanford University and the USC School of Cinematic Arts, where she co-founded the game design program. She holds a PhD in Behavioral Neuroscience from the University of Washington and a BA in Experimental Psychology from UCSD.