Kurt MacDonald

Be immersed in fascinating facts about the world's most intriguing organisms that yield as much insight into our own lives as they do nature. In the spirit of biomimicry, the lessons explored will inspire you to think about competition, collaboration, opportunity, adversity, and survival in an entirely new light.

In an eclectic combination of skills, Kurt MacDonald was an award winning science teacher and co-founder and director of a nationally-renowned Speech and Debate team. More recently, he is the founder of NatureSays (naturesays.org) and co-founder of The Professional Communicators (procommunicators.com), a public speaking coaching firm with a proven track-record of training c-suite executives, managers, team leaders, and entrepreneurs in the art (and science) of effective communication.

In all these capacities, Kurt thrives on helping individuals proudly gain new knowledge and skills, and view commonplace situations through new, creative lenses.

Spanning 25 years of his academic and professional career, Kurt has a long history of public speaking. He delivered the Most Outstanding Graduate address at the University of Colorado, Boulder, was a mainstage presenter at Scholar Search Conference, and an invited speaker at the Summit Advocates for Gifted Education. He presented at IgniteSTEM Columbia, and most recently gave a TEDx talk on finding opportunity in chaos.

Kurt’s graduate degree in Behavioral Neuroscience and 15+ years teaching evolutionary biology also provides a unique perspective and intriguing examples to illustrate essential elements of his talks. A particular expertise of his is in the field of behavioral biomimicry--where human institutions can realize improvement from studying analogous situations in nature.

Kurt currently lives in Denver with his wife, two daughters, and their adopted greyhound.