Technology
Through live pottery and lived experience, I help technology audiences recognize barriers and explore the tools, support, and design choices that help more people participate.
Explore Technology SpeakingI'm Kelvin Crosby, the DeafBlind Potter.
When life's challenges come, hope helps us shape what comes next.
Through live pottery and my own story, I share how we can find joy within life's challenges, keep persevering, and allow those experiences to shape our character—so the hope we find becomes hope we can offer others.
A message shared at the pottery wheel, shaped for your team, conference, community, or ministry.
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When what worked before stopped working, I had to find another way.
As my sight changed, the world kept changing around me. I learned to use different tools, ask for support, and invent technology that helped me—and others—keep moving forward.
I bring that story to the pottery wheel. While you watch a piece take shape in my hands, I share what it took to work with what I had, try another approach, and keep building.
That's what I want people to take with them: when something stops working, there may be another way forward. A different tool. The right support. One step they hadn't considered before.
Invite Kelvin to SpeakMeet Kelvin Crosby
I'm a speaker, potter, accessibility innovator, and co-host of Investing in Accessibility. Living with Usher syndrome, I have shaped barriers into tools that help others move forward. I invented the See Me Cane, built assistive-technology training programs, and now develop practical AI systems for small and midsize businesses. Meet the person behind the pottery.
Live pottery. A message shaped for your room.
Who I Speak For
Corporations
Formed by Hope helps teams face change without losing momentum or disconnecting from one another. Through live pottery, I make resilience visible and give your people a shared language for pressure, support, and what comes next.
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Nonprofits
I shape a piece of clay while I tell the real story behind surviving suicide attempts, blindness, and addiction. Your people walk away knowing they matter, and that whatever they're carrying can still be shaped into something that changes the world.
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Ministry
I bring the wheel to your church or ministry gathering and shape a piece of clay while I share the Good Potter message, live, start to finish. Your people walk away knowing they matter, and that God is still forming them.
Explore Ministry SpeakingMake Resilience Visible
When familiar ways of working stopped working as my sight changed, I learned to shape tools and invent technology that helped me and others keep moving forward. Through live pottery, I bring that experience to company gatherings, leadership meetings, technology conferences, accessibility events, and teams adapting to AI or other changes in how work gets done.
Ways to Work With Me
Speaking
Bring Formed by Hope to your corporate team or conference: live pottery, a shared language for change, and practical next steps.
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Pottery Healing
A team experience I bring to your company, church, or school: one-on-one time at the wheel with each person, up to thirty minutes each, while they work through whatever they're carrying. Some things are easier to process with your hands.
Learn MoreShape What Comes Next
Your team is invited to consider a barrier, a possible next step, and the tools or support that could help. Your organization decides what fits its people, priorities, and ways of working. Let's shape the message around your audience and what they are navigating.
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