Lori Hamilton

As the founder of Prosperity, Lori has worked as a marketing strategist, researcher, and creative consultant for more than 20 years. Her work has generated over $7 billion in incremental business for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to startups. She has personally interviewed over 25,000+ people from Global CEOs to people living in trailer parks and everything in between.

Having worked across a wide range of categories and industries, her clients include Google, ConAgra, Intuit, Rubbermaid, Deloitte Consulting, CitiBank, MetLife, Accenture, Herman Miller, USG, Russell Athletic, Blue Diamond, Johnson Controls, Microsoft, Garanimals, Carter’s/Oshkosh, United Technologies, The Home Depot, Procter & Gamble, Kimberly-Clark, Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson, and Novartis. Her firm has conducted research in 27 countries around the world.

Lori holds a B.A. in Linguistics from UCLA and has won 73 awards for creative and marketing excellence, including five Best of Shows and a Clio.

She also uses her Juilliard and other professional theatrical training to create customized workshops that generate hundreds of ideas in a matter of hours. Lori has taught Insights and Innovation at Columbia University’s Master’s Degree Program in Strategic Communications, NYU Business School, Pace University. Lori speaks three languages semi-fluently, can do 32+ accents, and knows how to caramelize sugar with a blow torch. And, if you ask nicely, she’ll make her face look like a Pez dispenser.