Media Executive, Author and Speaker
Albert Read is a writer, speaker and media executive. He has run one of the world’s most prestigious publishing houses, Condé Nast, and he writes and speaks on the essential role of creativity in human achievement and progress.
His book, The Imagination Muscle, was published in 2024 to international acclaim. It was nominated as one of Bloomberg’s Books of the Year, The Economist’s ‘Five Essential Books on Creativity’ and is included on JP Morgan’s NextList 2025. He has spoken on the subject of creativity at a number of companies, the Royal College of Art, Intelligence Squared and the Milken Conference in Los Angeles.
BOOK
The Imagination Muscle
Where good ideas come from and how to have more of them
In his critically acclaimed, life-affirming book, Albert Read puts the imagination back at the centre of our lives. It’s not just a nebulous concept reserved for artists and creatives, it operates within all of us as an essential faculty of the mind to be trained and developed over a lifetime. It is boundless in its potential, infinitely rewarding and central to human achievement and happiness.
Touching on art, music, film, literature, science and entrepreneurship, the book shows us that the imagination is our supreme gift, our biggest opportunity, our greatest source of fulfilment and our most vital asset for the future.
‘Buoyant, beautifully distilled…Consistently entertaining.’
– The Times
