Bio
LaMar Vinson is a cultural strategist, author, and the founder of YoHan's Creative Circle. His work traces the line between inherited silence and public narrative — from The Senses of Silence, a historical memoir restoring his grandfather's story from the Port Chicago disaster, to The Alignment Engine, a weekly discipline for clarity and intentional becoming. He speaks on cultural strategy, lineage-based storytelling, and what it actually takes to build something true.
Keynote Topics
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Doubt, Discipline & Becoming — LaMar's signature talk on moving through doubt without being run by it, drawn from The Alignment Engine's five-step method.
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What Cultural Strategy Actually Is — a working definition of the field, for organizations trying to figure out if this is the discipline they need.
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Why Lineage Matters in Modern Brand Identity — how tracing where a story actually comes from builds something more durable than aspiration ever can.
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Community Storytelling vs. Trend-Chasing — a framework for telling whether a narrative project is built to last or built to spike.
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Reclaiming a Name: Lessons from Writing The Senses of Silence — on the discipline of historical reckoning, told through one family's Port Chicago story.
Work with LaMar
Bringing LaMar in for a keynote, workshop, or extended engagement? Available formats: single keynote · half-day workshop · multi-week cohort (The Alignment Engine, Live) · extended civic/institutional partnership.
[Request LaMar for your event →] (yohanscreativecircle@gmail.com)