Kay's Bio

Kay Allison is the inventor of $2 billion brand innovations. She shows leaders how to harness AI + human insight to create what endures. Don’t anticipate or react to the future: invent it.

Short Bio

Kay Allison is the inventor of $2 billion innovations for brands you know.

A former ad agency SVP turned entrepreneur, she now shows consumer brand leaders how to fuse AI and human insight to unlock $25MM–$100MM breakthroughs, fast.

Her talks light the path to creating what lasts, not just what trends.

Medium Bio

Kay Allison is the inventor of $2 billion innovations for Fortune 500 brands.

A former SVP at two global ad agencies, Kay founded The Energy Infuser, a $6MM consultancy that helped companies like Kraft, Tyson, and United Airlines create new products, categories, and business models.

Today, through Energy Infuser.AI, she teaches leaders how to combine AI’s power with human insight to spot and seize opportunities others miss.

Known for her bright energy and grounded credibility, Kay’s sessions help consumer brand teams turn uncertainty into invention, and AI into a creative ally, not a threat.

Complete Bio

Kay Allison is the inventor of $2 billion innovations for some of the world’s most recognizable brands. A dynamic and trusted voice in AI and innovation, she helps consumer brand leaders harness artificial intelligence and human insight together to uncover the next $25MM–$100MM opportunity, fast.

Kay began her career as a Senior Vice President at two global ad agencies before founding The Energy Infuser, an innovation firm that grew to $6MM in annual revenue and helped Fortune 500 clients such as Kraft, Tyson, and Campbell’s create new-to-the-world products and categories.

Her team’s inventions include the first in-flight snack boxes, entirely new CPG segments, and repositioning strategies that reignited mature brands.

She also co-founded The Energy Annex, a research facility that won “World’s Best Facility” for 17 consecutive years, and authored Secrets from the Innovation Room (McGraw-Hill).

Now, through Energy Infuser.AI, Kay helps organizations and audiences reimagine how AI can amplify (not replace) human creativity. Her talks blend inspiration with proven tools, showing how to spot durable opportunities in a world obsessed with the fleeting. Audiences leave with new ways to think, create, and grow.

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