Dave Zaboski

Dave Zaboski is a classically trained painter, illustrator and animator who contributed his talents to Disney, Sony and Warner Bros. during the Second Golden Age of Animation. His credits include the traditional hand drawn films “Beauty and the Beast,” “The Lion King,” “Pocahontas,” “Aladdin,” “The Hunchback of Notre Dame,” “Hercules,” “Fantasia 2000,” and computer generated animation like “Stuart Little,” among others.

He has illustrated several acclaimed children’s books, including titles for Dr. Ken Dychtwald, Dr. Deepak Chopra, finance guru Ric Edelman and actor Paul Michael Glaser. Dave has created concept art for film and television, shown his fine art at galleries internationally and been the expedition artist in search of a lost temple in the Andes. He’s painted for the Dalai Lama. Until 2024 as well as being a successful tech entrepreneur for a Silicon Valley startup committed to seeing Creatives flourish.

Dave has taught people and teams of all levels, from kindergarten to Global C-Suite executives and currently helms Creatively Speaking LLC where he speaks, consults and creates. He has presented at conferences and companies around the world and teaches workshops at retreat centers like Esalen Institute, Summit and Rancho La Puerta. He has been been on the faculty along with Peter Diamandis and Ray Kurzweil at Singularity University and was a Presenting Fellow on the Gartner Research Board’s 2023 report on Artificial Intelligence.

Dave paints, writes and draws daily and lives with his wife, Robin, and a small menagerie on a ranchette in Southern California.