appearances

{Television} {Radio} {Speeches and such}

Cultural Jewish conversion

While I’ve got a Jewish wife, Jewish kids and an ever-widening circle of Jewish friends and colleagues, I have stubbornly remained non-chosen. But I got sick of being merely Jew-adjacent. So in the summer of 2008, I became an official Cultural Jew, in front of a live audience at the opening of the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco. There was a quiz, humiliation and the downing of gefilte fish juice. My friends at Reboot have just posted audio, in streaming and podcast formats, of the whole mishigas. 

Television

Selections from Christopher Noxon's appearances on NBC's Today Show, CNN's In the Money, PBS's Life & Times, ABC's Good Morning America and Comedy Central's Colbert Report.

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Radio

Commentary for NPR’s Marketplace on “toyification” and how consumer goods are becoming more and more toylike.

Commentary for Wisconsin Public Radio’s “To the Best of Our Knowledge” about the week I spent following the advice of 12 life coaches and personal advisors.

Commentary for NPR’s “Marketplace” on the first female space tourist’s trip to the International Space Sation.

Interview with NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” about the book Rejuvenile and backlash among more traditionally minded adults.

Commentary for NPR’s “Marketplace” on how mobile phones have fundamentally changed the social landscape (scroll down to “Mobile phones have made us hard to pin down”)

Hour-long interview with WHYY program “Radio Times” about all things rejuvenile, including questions from callers and discussion of history, parenting and business.

Speeches and Such

My speaking engagements are handled by the Harry Walker Agency and the Brightsight Group. I’m available to talk to business meetings, creative and marketing professionals and book groups on the following topics:

What Do Rejuveniles Want?
Rejuveniles represent a valuable but often misunderstood market. Companies that have profited most from rejuveniles’ buying power – Disney, Lego, Viacom, and Volkswagen – have developed hard-won wisdom in how to design market and reach these consumers. In this provocative presentation, I’ll discuss case studies of success (The Apple iMac, Lego’s courting of Adult Fans of Lego) and failure (Disney’s California Adventure, Toyota’s “Put It In Play” campaign), as well as strategies for creating and marketing “kid-targeted” products that simultaneously appeal to adults.

Playing Like Einstein
Innovation-minded managers are finding success by harnessing their workforce’s innate sense of childlike play. I’ll discuss how CEOs at companies including Nokia, IDEO, Southwest Airlines and PricewaterhouseCoopers are capturing their employee’s creativity by making their workplaces and business plans more playful. Looking beyond frivolous and costly recreational solutions championed in the dot-com era, I describe how companies can foster a childlike spirit that blurs the line between work and play and spurs new solutions.

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