Brian Burke is a Advisor at Intentional Futures. He possess expertise in strategic partnerships, mobile devices, strategy, business development, digital strategy and 30 more skills. He is proficient in Italian. Colleagues describe him as "I worked for Brian over 6 years while we were both at Smashing Ideas - where, as CEO, he successfully transformed the company into a respected design and innovation agency. He became my manager when he was promoted to CEO, where he excelled as the leader of our company. One of Brian's greatest strengths is his ability to build high performance teams with great cultures. I appreciate how adept he is at balancing the shorter-term needs of the business with what will enable the company, and people, to thrive over the long run. He embodies the growth mindset, and is skilled at bringing this out in other people. As a company, we all found ourselves consistently raising the bar (as individuals and teams) under his leadership. He is also a detail-oriented person... something that was consistently a benefit to the company. His attention to detail spanned everything we did, down to remembering the names of family members, kids etc of nearly every employee at the company. There was more than once that he caught a mistake or inconsistency that was critical to the company, and he made all of us more focused on the quality of our products, the effectiveness of our work, and the health of our business as a result. Under Brian's leadership and management, I can honestly say that I did some of the best work of my life - and our company did some of the best work in the industry. He has my highest recommendation for any C-level (CEO, COO) position!" and "I’m honored to have had the opportunity to work with Brian for many wonderful years at Smashing Ideas. He’s an incredible CEO who possesses all the key leadership skills that are needed to guide and shape a successful company. I think what makes him truly excel at what he does is that he cares about his people just as much as he cares about the business. Brian had an open door policy that he honored, and over the years that I worked with him I knew that I could knock on his door and he would always make time for me. He’s an amazing collaborator, listener, and master at capturing people’s attention with his wealth of knowledge and entertaining stories of our industry. He’s a force of energy and he knows how to channel it. He played a huge role in bringing Smashing Ideas to where it is today. Thanks to Brian’s vision, guidance, and leadership, Smashing Ideas has matured into a renowned Agency. I hope I get the opportunity to work with Brian again, I miss his sense of humor that cracking laugh of his that could heard from anywhere within the office. "