We all face rejection. We all deal with fear. Whether it’s in our personal lives or careers, there are always dozens of obstacles holding us back from achieving our biggest goals.
But it doesn’t have to be that way. There are certain mindsets and tools that can not only clear the obstacles along your path, but can also add rocket fuel to your success. After spending ten years researching and interviewing the most innovative leaders on earth, bestselling author Alex Banayan’s widely-acclaimed Third Door™ framework can help any organization achieve its goals and radically accelerate its overall growth.
In this high-energy keynote, Banayan takes audiences on an unprecedented adventure, from hacking "The Price is Right" to chasing Larry King through a grocery store to the multi-year quest to learn from Bill Gates and Lady Gaga. Alongside these larger-than-life stories, Banayan takes the insights from his bestselling book "The Third Door" to a whole new level, making them practical and applicable for organizations of all sizes.
This powerful presentation teaches you how to:
This wildly-entertaining keynote is packed with tools and lessons guaranteed to supercharge your mindset - to the point where growth becomes inevitable.
The pace of change in the business world is faster than ever before.
With the surge of AI and other seismic technological disruptions, it has never been more critical to an organization’s survival for teams to cultivate a DNA of perseverance and solution-oriented problem-solving.
In this empowering keynote, bestselling author and growth keynote speaker Alex Banayan decodes the most critical insights needed for any organization to cultivate the mindset of resilience and optimism, particularly during times of rapid change and uncertainty.
After interviewing Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, and dozens more of the world’s most iconic leaders, Banayan uncovered the fundamental skills that every organization needs—but that most people don’t talk about—to achieve their biggest goals during disruptive times.
This keynote covers it all, with lessons including:
If you care about elevating your business—if you care about your employees being more resilient, more courageous, and more capable of making smart, innovative decisions—this keynote is what you’ve been waiting for.
The world has never been noisier.
How do you command the attention of your customers, sales prospects, strategic partners or industry at-large? Once you have their attention, how do you transform those stakeholders into lifelong advocates for you and your business?
After a decade of researching the world’s most successful leaders and organizations, bestselling author Alex Banayan uncovered what the single most effective skill that radically boosts the growth of any company’s sales, marketing, or business development efforts.
The secret is storytelling—but not just any kind. Banayan’s research led him to decode the keys to remarkably compelling, gripping, and emotional storytelling that can be used by businesses of all sizes to supercharge their goals. This is a specific, teachable skill set that can transform prospects into blue-chip clients, customers into evangelists, and can inject an entirely new sense of possibility into the DNA of your company culture.
Drawing from his years of research and the international success of "The Third Door’s" unique narrative style, Banayan distills in this keynote how anyone in your organization—from C-suite executives to your newest team members—can use the five elements of Banayan’s VISTA™ Storytelling Framework to transform your business.
Because at the end of the day, everything in life and business comes down to a story. And it’s time your organization uses that to its advantage.
The mental health crisis has hit a point of urgency never before seen in history.
Anxiety and depression levels are skyrocketing. These issues not only devastate families at home, but also affect the workplace in extreme ways.
Gallup polling of chief human resource officers found that only one-percent of them perceive their workforce mental health as excellent. The size of the issue is overwhelming. But what if what we need to solve this crisis has been right in front of us the entire time?
Bestselling author and researcher Alex Banayan has spent years interviewing the most renowned pioneers in the mental health field—including the president of the American Psychological Association, acclaimed brain experts, leading psychologists, psychiatrists, addiction researchers, Harvard professors, the CEO of Gallup, and others—to not only decode what is causing this crisis, but to find scientifically-proven solutions that are accessible and scalable.
In this groundbreaking keynote, Banayan will make you rethink what you know about mental health, while giving you the tools to put these solutions into practice.
Through this mind-expanding presentation, audiences will learn:
Packed with captivating stories, this keynote is solution-oriented and leaves audiences feeling optimistic and empowered. We owe it to ourselves, our families, and our colleagues to equip ourselves with the very best insights to uplift our mental wellbeing—and this keynote is designed to do exactly that.
Alex's presentation was incredible. He was so engaging and our team took away so much from his talk. Wish it could have been 10 times as long. Thank you to everyone for making this experience so amazing and for setting the bar so high!
PDFTron
- Jan 18 2023
“Banayan followed Valerie Jarrett and Arianna Huffington to keynote the Snapchat Women’s Group, and there was standing room only for his speech. He captivated the crowd with his incredible and unique story and journey. He answered questions from the audience with candor and insight. Everyone left the session feeling inspired, empowered, and even more equipped to succeed. Ten out of ten!”
Head of Curated Stories, Snapchat
- Jan 20 2022
“When Alex Banayan spoke at my department’s off-site, his energy was contagious, his stories were inspiring, and his ideas pushed my team’s leadership. If you’re looking for someone with insight and passion, then Banayan is your man.”
Vice President of Football Marketing, Nike
- Jan 20 2022
“Banayan is one of the most professional and polished speakers I’ve worked with. And his talk couldn’t have gone better. His stories were enthralling, his insights were incredibly tangible, and his message was spot on.”
Head of Google Play Business Development, Google
- Jan 20 2022
"Banayan is the world's youngest venture capitalist…He's also the youngest author signed at Crown Business, a Random House imprint, and probably the only college student in the world to have received offers from MTV (for his own reality-TV show) and from a singer-songwriter at Interscope Records (to manage him) and turned both down...He wants, he says, to change the world."
Fortune
- Oct 07 2015
For the past ten years, I’ve been studying the mindset of success. I’ve interviewed the world’s most successful leaders, from Bill Gates and Lady Gaga to Jane Goodall, Maya Angelou, Larry King, Jessica Alba, Steve Wozniak, and Quincy Jones, and have been turning their insights into simple tools people can use to grow and rediscover what makes them come alive.
Venture associate, Alsop Louie PartnersCalled "the youngest VC ever," Banayan was hired by Alsop Louie at age 19 in 2012. He evaluates dozens of pitches ...
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