Robert Fogarty

Write Your Future is an immersive keynote and guided letter-writing experience designed to help participants convert the emotion of a gathering into personal intention, future action, and long-term reflection.

The problem with most conferences is not what happens in the room. It’s what disappears after people leave. Write Your Future is designed to answer one of the most important questions meeting planners ask: How do we keep this going?

Through a structured writing experience, participants pause to reflect on who they are becoming, what they want to remember, and what they want to practice after the conference ends. They write to their future selves, creating a meaningful personal commitment that extends the impact of the event well beyond the agenda.

Unlike a typical closing keynote, Write Your Future gives attendees a ritual. It offers something tangible that creates continuity between inspiration and action. Designed for annual meetings, leadership retreats, and values-driven gatherings, the experience helps organizations deepen reflection, reinforce intention, and create a shared moment participants will revisit long after the event ends.

The Portrait Process is an interactive keynote and experience that teaches participants how to see, interview, and photograph one another with care, attention, and humanity.

Inspired by Robert X. Fogarty’s belief that everyone deserves to experience the power of taking someone’s portrait, this immersive session goes beyond a camera moment. Participants step out of passive observation and into the experience, learning how presence, trust, curiosity, and attention create meaningful connection.

Through a live portrait tutorial and facilitated peer-to-peer activation, attendees become both storytellers and witnesses, interviewing, photographing, and truly seeing one another.

The Portrait Process is especially powerful for organizations looking to strengthen belonging, rebuild trust, deepen leadership presence, and create meaningful connection across teams.

Align meaningful stories with your mission, vision and values

What is it?

In this immersive keynote experience, Robert X. Fogarty introduces the Brain Tattoo Method, the storytelling process behind Dear World’s iconic writing-on-skin portraits. Participants are guided to identify a short message to the world, write that message on their skin in washable black ink, and step into a photographic portrait.

Keynote Description

Fogarty opens with the origin story of Dear World and the lessons learned from photographing more than one million people across radically different environments, from disaster zones and refugee camps to leadership summits and elite teams.

Through a guided process, participants reflect on a meaningful story from their lives and distill it into a short message to the world. That message is then written directly on their skin in washable ink and captured in a Dear World portrait.

For larger engagements, the keynote can be paired with an immersive portrait activation and an optional closing reveal, where selected participant stories are shared from the stage and images captured on site are transformed into a powerful slideshow or short film.

The result is a keynote that does not end when the speaker leaves the stage. It becomes the emotional and visual centerpiece of the meeting.

This session is ideal for leaders and teams who are:

Launching or renewing mission, vision, and values

Seeking a deeper alternative to a traditional motivational keynote

Building trust across divisions, geographies, or leadership levels

Looking to create a shared emotional experience at a major gathering

Ready to make culture visible, not just talk about it

The audience will leave with:

A clear personal message connected to who they are and what they stand for

A deeper understanding of their colleagues beyond job titles and roles

A practical storytelling framework for building trust and connection

A visible, memorable artifact from the experience

A renewed sense of ownership in the organization’s mission and values

Suggested Format

Opening keynote: 20–60 minutes

Portrait activation: customized based on audience size and schedule

Optional closing reveal: 20–60 minutes

Optional deliverables: still portraits, short film, custom digital gallery or website, printed portraits, executive story coaching

Portraits are windows into ourselves. In this immersive and participatory experience, RX Fogarty takes the audience on a journey of reflection, sharing, and listening.

Fogarty has photographed more than 50,000 people and his work has been published in more than 30 countries. In this immersive session, Fogarty explains the power a camera has to create deeper connections and photographs audience members live. After the session, all audience members are encouraged to visit the Prtrait Studio & Prtrait Prty to take their very own Prtrait and get behind the camera to photograph their fellow attendees.

Learning Outcomes:

• Participants will gain a deeper understanding of themselves.
• Participants will learn that portrait photography is more about making a person comfortable than technical precision.
• Participants will share and listen to meaningful stories from their colleagues.